Gamba grass eradication is continuing across the NT with the 2025 Gamba Action Program now open.
The program has been running for 15 years, supporting landowners by providing free herbicide and weed management advice.
Lat wet season, around 3,000 people picked up free herbicide through the initiative.
Darwin Regional Manager of the Weed Management Branch, Peter Ross, says the program also aligns with the work of Bushfires NT and the NT Fire and Rescue Service to minimise the threat of bushfires caused by excessive gamba grass ‘fuel loads’.
“Gamba grass is a Weed of National Significance and creates high fuel loads,” Mr Ross says.
“This can cause uncontrollable, hot and intense fires that put people, properties and rural communities at risk.”
There’s a number of collection spots now open across the Top End including in Adelaide River, Dundee and Batchelor.
For a full list head to the NT Government’s website.
