NRM Projects
Current NRM Projects & Initiatives
Land Projects
Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator (SAF)
About the project A designated central contact point for farmers, landholders, industry, and community groups, the Sustainable Agriculture Facilitator aims to engage and inform those involved in agricultural industries across the Cradle Coast region about...
Carbon that Counts
About the project Carbon that Counts is working with Tasmanian farmers to build practical evidence on how carbon accounting can add value for farming businesses - whether through cost savings, market opportunities, or better farm management - and to develop useful...
Dairy Resilience Program
About the project The Dairy Resilience Project is led by Soils for Life alongside Cradle Coast NRM and other regional partners around Australia. Over the next three years we will be working with Soils for Life to support dairy farmers to build soil health and climate...
National Soil Monitoring Program
About the project Cradle Coast NRM has been engaged by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to conduct soil chemistry, biology and physics samples at 49 pre-determined sites across the Cradle Coast region as part of the National...
Our Natural Advantage: Building the benefits of biodiversity on farms
About the project As farmers are increasingly exposed to variable climate conditions and changing market expectations around sustainability, it can be hard to decide on the best course of action to ensure they remain viable – Our Natural Advantage supports farmers to...
Water Projects
Scaling Nature-based Solutions for Flood Resilience and Recovery
About the project In the aftermath of the devastating 2016 floods, Tasmania’s three NRMs (NRM North, NRM South and Cradle Coast NRM) implemented Nature-based Solutions (NbS) across their region to rehabilitate agricultural land and support on-going flood resilience. ...
Improving habitat in the Mersey River estuary for threatened species
About the project This project aims to improve the foreshore and estuarine environments of the Mersey River for Eastern Curlew, Australasian Bittern, Australian Grayling and other native species. Key project outcomes include control of Rice Grass in the threatened...
Maugean Skate Recovery – Healthy Harbour Project
About the project This project delivers urgent recovery actions required to reduce the Maugean Skate’s (Zearaja maugeana) extinction risk. CCA’s Healthy Harbour project team collaborates with the Strahan and West Coast community to improve public understanding and...
Celebrating the coastal wetlands of Circular Head
About the project Showcasing the unique beauty of the Robbins Passage – Boullanger Bay tidal wetlands and highlighting the ecological, economic and social values of this place for the Circular Head and Cradle Coast community. This project builds on years of...
Creating a Hooded Plover Stronghold on Three Hummock Island – Part 3
About the project Cradle Coast NRM is working to create a stronghold for the Hooded Plover (Thinornis rubricollis), a priority threatened species, on Three Hummock Island by reducing feral cat predation, a significant threat to Hooded Plovers. This project continues...
Biodiversity Projects
Swift Parrot Nest Box Monitoring at Kelcey Tier Reserve
About the project The Swift Parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a critically endangered bird under the EPBC Act, with population estimates ranging from 300 – 700 birds remaining. This statewide project investigates habitat quality including the relationship between...
Improving Felixer cat control technology for use in Tasmanian Devil habitat
About the project Felixer grooming traps are an important new tool to manage feral cats, but they can not currently be used on mainland Tasmania. This project works towards the potential removal of restrictions, by training the Artificial Intelligence technology to...
Giant Freshwater Crayfish Recovery – Part 2
About the project Building on previous work by Cradle Coast NRM, this project focuses on six priority areas critical to the ongoing survival of Tasmania’s iconic, endemic Giant Freshwater Crayfish (Astacopsis gouldi). The project protects known populations and...
Community action for King Island Scrubtit and King Island Brown Thornbill protection
About the project This project implements actions across King Island to protect the habitat of two priority critically endangered species, the King Island Brown Thornbill and King Island Scrubtit. Building the capacity of landholders and community groups on King...
Cross-themed Projects
Cradle Coast Regional Priority Weeds
About the project The Tasmanian Weeds Action Fund (WAF), launched in 2019 by the Tasmanian Government's Department of Natural Resources and Environment, addresses the threat of priority weeds to the state’s agricultural and environmental assets. WAF provides funding...
Emergency Preparedness and Response Project
About the Project The Cradle Coast region is facing increasing challenges from natural disasters and extreme weather events, ranging from bushfires to flash floods, and emergency biosecurity incursions. These events not only threaten human lives, property, and food...
Community NRM Engagement Program
About the project This program will raise awareness of NRM priorities as they relate to our 2030 NRM Strategy for Cradle Coast Tasmania and improve the profile of our existing NRM projects to encourage participation. The project will also support a well-informed and...
Completed NRM Projects & Initiatives
Cradle Coast Cat Tracker
Have you always wondered where your cat goes when you see them leaving the house in the morning? At least 70% of cat owners allow their cat to roam away from their property, but do we really know where these cats go once, we open the door? The Cradle Coast Cat Tracker...
Production systems approach to soil ecological restoration: Building healthy, productive, and climate resilient soils using cover crops and multi-species pastures.
Project Officers are working with producers from Simplot and Greenham Tasmania Pastoral to showcase the use of cover crops in intensive horticulture and multi-species pastures in beef cattle production.
Circular Head Roadkill Mitigation Working Group
Cradle Coast NRM is a key stakeholder in a working group established to reduce the number of Tasmanian Devils killed on the roads of the Woolnorth area. The primary focus is on strategies to increase driver awareness and reduce speed in the Woolnorth area, as the most...
Rice Grass Removal from the Rubicon-Port Sorell Estuary
Summary Improving the condition and the long-term protection of Coastal Saltmarsh and feeding habitat for migratory and resident birds, by targeting the primary ecological threat of Rice Grass through control and containment. Project description This project will...
Maugean Skate – Zearaja maugeana
Maugean Skates are Tasmania’s largest endemic fish growing up to 750 mm from tip of snout to end of tail. They are listed as one of the State’s most ‘endangered’ marine species which means that there aren’t many of them left in the world and they face a very...
Maugean Skate Awareness Project
This project will focus on raising community awareness of the Maugean Skate and highlight the many challenges that this endangered species faces. Cradle Coast NRM is working with species experts from Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Department of Natural...
Coastal Saltmarsh Recovery in Robbins Passage and Surrounds
Summary Improving the condition and the long-term protection of the Coastal Saltmarsh Threatened Ecological Community by targeting the primary ecological threat of Rice Grass and through brokering and establishing conservation agreements with landholders to maintain...
Giant Freshwater Crayfish Recovery- Part 1
This project is protecting and improving priority stream habitat for the highly valued and vulnerable Giant Freshwater Crayfish. Working with landholders to establish conservation agreements and undertake riparian protection and...
Online Property Management Planning (PMP) Climate Change Module
This online module provides information to farmers and landholders about options to consider to build resilience into their farming system to better adapt to farming under a changing climate. Click on the image below to access the module.
Regional Agriculture Landcare Facilitator
Funded through the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment, the RALF is a central contact point for farmers in our region to help increase their knowledge and skills on the path to adopting practices which will help improve farm...
Urgent Recovery Actions for Maugean Skate
Urgent recovery actions are being implemented to reduce the species’ imminent risk of extinction, guided by the National Recovery Team for the Maugean Skate chaired by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Tasmania (NRE Tas). Cradle Coast NRM’s current...
Protecting our productive soils
This project is about taking landholders through the process of change management, to better manage the threat of hillslope erosion by water and soil acidification to our productive soils. Beginning with increasing awareness and knowledge, the process then follows...
Smallholder Property Management Planning (PMP) Program
Delivering a range of practical engagement activities, this project will support small landholders in our region to improve skills, knowledge and engagement in natural resource management and associated networks. Enhancing their capacity to be able to make more...
Tasmanian Soil Extension Program
The statewide NRM Soil Extension Program will deliver extension activities that promote improved soil health. A series of workshops, field days and one-on-one support will be available to increase farmers awareness and knowledge on a range of relevant soil and land...
Tasmanian Weeds Action Fund
The State Government’s Tasmanian Weeds Action Fund (WAF) provides important funds for farmers and other community organisations to tackle weeds impacting valuable agriculture and environmental assets. CCNRM have partnered with NRM North and NRM South to deliver Stage...
Implementing the Tasmanian Cat Management Plan (TCMP)
About the project The second phase of the Tasmanian Cat Management Project was completed in September of 2025, with a focus on engagement with the Tasmanian community to promote responsible cat ownership including desexing, microchipping, and containing pet cats...