Training and Workshops

Tertiary training

Photo: Diamantina River Floodplain between Durrie and Birdsville

• Australian Rivers Institute — Griffith University

  The Australian Rivers Institute (ARI) was established by Griffith University in 2006 to provide a focus for Australia’s largest group of university-based scientific experts in river, catchment and coastal research and education. The institute builds on Griffith University’s long-standing reputation in environmental science.

• Griffith School of Environment — Griffith University

  The School of Environment provides information on undergraduate programs across a range of environmental sciences.

• School of Tropical Environment Studies and Geography — James Cook University

  The School brings together physical, biological and social studies of people and their environment. Study offers academic challenges and rewarding careers within environmental science, geography, spatial science, urban planning and marine science.

• Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health — Central Queensland University

  Central Queensland University presents an innovative undergraduate program in collaboration with environmental organisations such as CSIRO, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, environmental consulting firms, and local councils.

Primary industries and community training

• The Queensland Wetlands Program has developed modules for the Grazing Land Management (GLM) education package to educate landholders about the social, economic and environmental benefits of improved wetland management.

  GLM workshops, run by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, are practical, customised EDGEnetwork workshops designed to help grazing land managers improve their profits in a sustainable way.

• The Queensland Farmers Federation (QFF) Farm Management Systems (FMS) covers a range of industry-specific processes for managing farm business and production practices, which includes environmental management for intensive agricultural industries, such as horticulture, sugarcane farming and dairying.

  The Queensland Wetlands Program aims to integrate wetland management into industry FMS programmes.

  In particular, the Program will work in partnership with wetland experts and industry to define the risks in intensive agricultural systems on wetland condition and compile management recommendation and case studies for application by producers.

• AgForce including AgForce Training, Education, Bursaries, AgForward and AgForests

• Wetland International delivering practical wetland management solutions to regional natural resource management bodies, local governments, communities and landholders across Australia

• Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA)

  As a Registered Training Organisation, CVA has developed a competency-based training program in active volunteering, as well as a course in conservation volunteer management for managers, supervisors and leaders who are responsible for managing conservation teams.