• NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT VISION FOR THE NORTHERN AGRICULTURAL REGION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Biodiversity Conservation – Goals

Vision: “Terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem integrity are valued, maintained, improved and restored at a landscape scale”

Goal 1: Conservation status of all terrestrial threatened and priority plants, animals and ecological communities is maintained or improved, and no extinctions occur, by 2030.
  • Assess and monitor vegetation condition
  • Implement best practice fire management regimes
  • Develop recovery plans for threatened species that don’t already have them
  • Implement priority actions from threatened species recovery plans
  • Work with Traditional Owners and Custodians to develop management actions for threatened species using two-way science principles
  • Conserve habitat for threatened species
  • Translocate threatened species to suitable new areas
  • Implement financial and other incentive schemes to conserve threatened species on private land
  • Control invasive species that impact threatened species in the region
Goal 2: 30% of land area in each distinct ecological community managed, reserved and/or formally protected for biodiversity conservation by 2030.
  • Protect native vegetation through the formal conservation estate, including state, federal and private reserves and legally binding covenants on private land
  • Conserve native vegetation through management agreements, voluntary Land for Wildlife agreements or financial incentives schemes for private landholders
  • Jointly manage conservation areas with Traditional Owners and Custodians
  • Actively manage remnant vegetation by undertaking conservation actions such as fencing remnant patches and controlling weeds and pests.
  • Build capacity of local communities or local government authorities to protect native vegetation
  • Restore or rehabilitate degraded vegetation
  • Establish vegetation buffers and corridors
  • Maintain current native vegetation extent and condition
Goal 3: An additional 5,000 ha of degraded private or public land restored to benefit biodiversity in the region by 2030.
  • Restore or rehabilitate degraded vegetation
  • Revegetate road and rail reserves
  • Revegetate disturbed areas on Crown land
  • Fence off remnant native vegetation to protect it from grazing and other disturbance
  • Promote environmental education resources to schools
  • Maintain biodiversity and cultural values at Aboriginal heritage sites
Goal 4: 25 research or monitoring projects implemented to increase scientific knowledge and community awareness of the region’s terrestrial biodiversity and improve conservation outcomes by 2030.
  • Improve scientific knowledge of native species, particularly priority and data deficient threatened species
  • Improve understanding of Aboriginal people’s connection to country and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
  • Improve community awareness of native species, particularly priority and data deficient threatened species, through environmental education
  • Undertake research into revegetation and regeneration techniques
  • Monitor change in native vegetation extent or condition
  • Utilise research outcomes to develop priorities for conservation action
  • Identify impacts of risks (e.g. climate change, salinity, fire, invasive species) on threatened species
Goal 5: Most suitable ecological fire regimes identified and developed, and impacts on biodiversity monitored, in at least 5 distinct ecological communities by 2030.
  • Monitor and research the impacts of fire in different ecological communities
  • Develop a methodology to monitor and evaluate the impacts of different fire regimes on ecological communities
  • Identify fire management zones
  • Identify appropriate fire regimes for threatened species conservation
  • Implement best practice fire management regimes
  • Learn locally-appropriate fire management practices from Traditional Owners and Custodians and knowledge holders
  • Investigate the potential of traditional fire regimes
  • Identify the impacts of different fire management practices on biodiversity
  • Implement best practice fire management regimes
  • Develop fire recovery plans for threatened species that don’t already have them

Acknowledgment of Country

We respectfully acknowledge the Yamaji and Noongar people who are the Traditional Owners and original natural resource managers of the Northern Agricultural Region and pay our respect to all of the Aboriginal Elders and leaders in the region, past, present and emerging

“Bandang jinangij ngala nyoongar boodja danjoo.” All people looking after Country together (Noongar).

“Barndi nhurra nganjungu barnagi yanayinha.” It is good that you come to our Country (Yamaji Wajarri).

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