Biodiversity Strategy - Gosford City Council - NSW Government
Biodiversity Strategy - Gosford City Council - NSW Government Biodiversity Strategy - Gosford City Council - NSW Government
1.7 Objectives of the Biodiversity Strategy The objectives of this Strategy are to: • Ensure biodiversity management is a critical consideration in Council’s strategic Planning process that informs the City Wide Local Environmental Plan. • Ensure Council’s decision-making processes and operations have an outcome whereby biodiversity is appropriately protected and managed in consideration of the existing social and economic environment. • Maintain or improve Gosford’s Biodiversity for present and future generations. • Ensure all Council’s development controls identify biodiversity conservation issues and provide protection for biodiversity. • Conserve the diversity of locally occurring native flora and fauna in the Gosford City Council area at the genetic, species and ecosystem level and ensure actions support recovery of species which have become threatened • Identify threats to biodiversity and develop management strategies to address the threats and to protect, enhance and recover biodiversity • Invest in future research that aims to address key biodiversity issues in Gosford Local Government Area (LGA). • Improve management of biodiversity by identifying opportunities for partnerships and co-operation with other government and non-government organisations; the community and management within Council. • Educate and encourage the community to be involved in maintaining biodiversity • Ensure Council owned land that retains natural ecosystems is managed in a way that protects and enhances biodiversity. • Identify and implement wildlife corridors that are important for biodiversity and develop actions for their protection, management and enhancement. • Ensure that Council’s biodiversity strategies and future actions align with all relevant State & National Policies. • Identify priorities and allocate resources to implement the strategy. • Work with partner organisations to develop a comprehensive, adequate and representative (reserve) system for terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity. • Implement environmental monitoring and reporting to support these objectives. Biodiversity Strategy Page 11
2 EXISTING SITUATION 2.1 Biodiversity in Gosford Gosford City covers an area of 1,029 square kilometres (102,900 hectares) and is located on the east coast of Australia. The Local Government Area (LGA) extends from the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay in the south to Bucketty, Lisarow and Forresters Beach in the north, and from Wisemans Ferry and the Great North Road in the west to the Tasman Sea in the east. The location and boundary of the Gosford LGA is illustrated in Figure 2 Figure 2: Location of Gosford LGA The Gosford LGA is situated in the Sydney Basin Bioregion which has one of the most diverse floras in Australia (DECC 2008). This diversity results from the variations in geology, topography and climatic conditions across the bioregion (DECC 2008). The native vegetation of Gosford includes species whose population is restricted to the Gosford region. Endemic species include Astrotricha crassifolia, Darwinia glaucophylla, and Grevillea shiressii (Bell 2004). Those that have limited regional distribution include Prostanthera junonis and Prostanthera askania which are restricted to parts of Gosford and Wyong LGAs (Bell 2004). More widespread species include those that generally occur in the sub-tropical and tropical rainforests of New South Wales and Queensland such as the White Beech, Gmelina leichhardtii, (RBG 2008), and those such as Silver Banksia, Banksia marginata, that tends to occur in cooler regions such as South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, the south coast of NSW and the tablelands and slopes of NSW (RBG 2008). The Rose Walnut, Endiandra discolor, is a species for which the most southerly record is in the Gosford LGA (RBG 2004). Biodiversity Strategy Page 12
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1.7 Objectives of the <strong>Biodiversity</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong><br />
The objectives of this <strong>Strategy</strong> are to:<br />
• Ensure biodiversity management is a critical consideration in <strong>Council</strong>’s strategic<br />
Planning process that informs the <strong>City</strong> Wide Local Environmental Plan.<br />
• Ensure <strong>Council</strong>’s decision-making processes and operations have an outcome<br />
whereby biodiversity is appropriately protected and managed in consideration of the<br />
existing social and economic environment.<br />
• Maintain or improve <strong>Gosford</strong>’s <strong>Biodiversity</strong> for present and future generations.<br />
• Ensure all <strong>Council</strong>’s development controls identify biodiversity conservation issues and<br />
provide protection for biodiversity.<br />
• Conserve the diversity of locally occurring native flora and fauna in the <strong>Gosford</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
<strong>Council</strong> area at the genetic, species and ecosystem level and ensure actions support<br />
recovery of species which have become threatened<br />
• Identify threats to biodiversity and develop management strategies to address the<br />
threats and to protect, enhance and recover biodiversity<br />
• Invest in future research that aims to address key biodiversity issues in <strong>Gosford</strong> Local<br />
<strong>Government</strong> Area (LGA).<br />
• Improve management of biodiversity by identifying opportunities for partnerships and<br />
co-operation with other government and non-government organisations; the<br />
community and management within <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
• Educate and encourage the community to be involved in maintaining biodiversity<br />
• Ensure <strong>Council</strong> owned land that retains natural ecosystems is managed in a way that<br />
protects and enhances biodiversity.<br />
• Identify and implement wildlife corridors that are important for biodiversity and develop<br />
actions for their protection, management and enhancement.<br />
• Ensure that <strong>Council</strong>’s biodiversity strategies and future actions align with all relevant<br />
State & National Policies.<br />
• Identify priorities and allocate resources to implement the strategy.<br />
• Work with partner organisations to develop a comprehensive, adequate and<br />
representative (reserve) system for terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity.<br />
• Implement environmental monitoring and reporting to support these objectives.<br />
<strong>Biodiversity</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong> Page 11
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