Biodiversity Assessment - Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields
Opportunities
| Opportunities | Comments |
|---|---|
| Bulloo Dunefields (SSD7) | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| Central Depression (SSD6) | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| Dieri (SSD3) | |
| Environmental management systems | EMS accreditation for pastoral enterprises would provide access to lucrative, environmentally-aware niche markets |
| Institutional reform | Efficient discharge and distribution of artesian water |
| Guidelines for appropriate creation of new stock water points | |
| Improved management of river channel and floodplain ecosystems | |
| Threat abatement planning | Coordinated aerial shoots of feral animals |
| Monitor occurrence of pest plants | |
| Rip rabbit warrens at key sites of regionally threatened ecosystems | |
| Simpson Desert (SSD2) | |
| scope for greater capacity for broad-scale management of fire, ferals, weeds | |
| Simpson-Strzelecki Dunefields P1 (SSD1) | |
| Incentives | possibility for conservation agreements on pastoral lands, including incentives to maintain lightly-grazed (water-remote) areas |
| Threat abatement planning | scope for greater capacity for broad-scale management of fire, ferals, weeds |
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