Biodiversity Assessment - Riverina
Opportunities
| Opportunities | Comments |
|---|---|
| Lachlan (RIV1) | |
| Incentives | Revolving fund, established under the NSW Nature Conservation Trust, to purchase and covenant land for permanent protection. Land then sold to sympathetic buyer. Program still being formulated |
| Legislation including duty of care for leasehold etc | Southern Mallee and Western Riverina Regional Vegetation Committees. RVC's produce Veg Mgt Plans which also have a regulatory provision under the EP&A Act 1979. Plans still to be drafted and gazetted. |
| Threat abatement planning | Bushfires that are too frequent listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) |
| Clearing of native vegetation listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Climate change brought about by human activities listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Predation by feral cats listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Murray Fans (RIV3) | |
| Incentives | Further implementation of the Land for Wildlife Scheme (NPWS). Voluntary and non binding, provision of advice and support. Agreements negotiated with Local Government and community groups. |
| Revolving fund, established under the NSW Nature Conservation Trust, to purchase and covenant land for permanent protection. Land then sold to sympathetic buyer. Program still being formulated | |
| Legislation including duty of care for leasehold etc | Southern Mallee and Western Riverina Regional Vegetation Committees. RVC's produce Veg Mgt Plans which also have a regulatory provision under the EP&A Act 1979. Plans still to be drafted and gazetted. |
| Threat abatement planning | Bushfires that are too frequent listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) |
| Clearing of native vegetation listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Climate change brought about by human activities listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Predation by feral cats listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Murrumbidgee (RIV2) | |
| Incentives | Revolving fund, established under the NSW Nature Conservation Trust, to purchase and covenant land for permanent protection. Land then sold to sympathetic buyer. Program still being formulated |
| Legislation including duty of care for leasehold etc | Southern Mallee and Western Riverina Regional Vegetation Committees. RVC's produce Veg Mgt Plans which also have a regulatory provision under the EP&A Act 1979. Plans still to be drafted and gazetted. |
| Threat abatement planning | Bushfires that are too frequent listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) |
| Clearing of native vegetation listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Climate change brought about by human activities listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Predation by feral cats listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Robinvale Plains (RIV5) | |
| Incentives | Further implementation of the Land for Wildlife Scheme (NPWS). Voluntary and non binding, provision of advice and support. Agreements negotiated with Local Government and community groups. |
| Revolving fund, established under the NSW Nature Conservation Trust, to purchase and covenant land for permanent protection. Land then sold to sympathetic buyer. Program still being formulated | |
| Legislation including duty of care for leasehold etc | Southern Mallee Regional Vegetation Committee. RVC's produce Veg Mgt Plans which also have a regulatory provision under the EP&A Act 1979. Plan still to be drafted and gazetted. |
| Threat abatement planning | Bushfires that are too frequent listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) |
| Clearing of native vegetation listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Climate change brought about by human activities listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Predation by feral cats listed as a key threatening process in the TSCA (1995) | |
| Victorian Riverina (RIV4) | |
| Capacity building with stakeholders (specify) | Better resourced and focussed extension, training of extension officers in integration of biodiversity management , provision of extension materials relating to biodiversity management |
| Improved access and ease of use of biodiversity information, particularly mapping. | |
| Environmental management systems | Ecologically sustainable wood labelling/marketing system. |
| Extend Biodiversity EMS content to other sectors and support widespread adoption | |
| Incentives | Stewardship (Bush Tender) Biodiversity focussed Quantitative measurement of benefits, targeted with competitive cost minimisation and specific management agreements |
| Industry codes of practice | Update Codes of Forest practice to take account of conservation status information in regional native vegetation management plans and refine application of habitat protection aims. |
| Institutional reform | Goulburn River Floodplain, buyback of properties to restructure for flood mitigation/protection efforts with oppurtunity for biodiversity benefits through imporved environmental flows. |
| Public land use review of Box-Ironbark (ECC) | |
| Support for adjustment of timber industry in line with sustainable yields as part of RFAs | |
| Integration with Landcare, catchment & property planning | Routine linking of biodiversity EMS into Property management Planning |
| Use of quantitative measures and preferences (Biodiversity benefits index) as part of Landcare investment decision making. | |
| Other planning opportunities | Local Government. Native Vegetation Controls improved decision making though clearer rules/ concepts and training. Improved accounting through permit tracking database, calculation and monitoring of offsets, and remote sensing of remnants. |
| Local Government. Review of new Format Planning Schemes to include fuller consideration of biodiversity management and planning issues. | |
| Threat abatement planning | Completion for Victorian Pest Management Framework |
| Completion of Statewide Native Vegetation Management Framework and 10 Regional Native Vegetation management Plans - better and more focussed native vegetation protection and enhancement | |
| Monitor implementation of Native vegetation Management Plans. | |
| Revision of Regional Catchment Strategies with increased emphasis of management of biodiversity assets. | |
| Valuing ecosystem services | Need for inclusion of biodiversity considerations into proposed salinity/water quality/land protection credit schemes |
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