Biodiversity Strategy - Gosford City Council - NSW Government

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A - 1.4 References Commonwealth of Australia (1997) The National Weeds Strategy: A strategic approach to weed problems of national significance. Commonwealth of Australia Canberra. Constanza R, d’Arge R, Faber S, Grasso M, Hannon B, Limburg K, Naaeem S, O’Neill R V, Paruelo J, Raskin R G, Sutton P and van den Belt M (1997) ‘The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital’. Nature (London) 387:253 – 60. Davidson S. (2000) ‘What price biodiversity?’ Ecos, vol. 102 pp.10-13. Environmental Protection Authority NSW (EPA) (2000) New South Wales State of the Environment 2000 Reports and Backgrounders, Sydney NSW. Environment Australia (1996) Australia State Of The Environment 1996 An Independent Report Presented To The Commonwealth Minister For The Environment By The State Of The Environment Advisory Council ISBN 0 643 05830 3. NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) (1999) NSW Biodiversity Strategy, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Sydney. Prime Minister’s Science Council (1992) Scientific Aspects of Major Environmental Issues: Biodiversity papers presented by two independent working groups for consideration by the Prime Minister’s Science Council at its sixth meeting 18 May 1992, Office of the Chief Scientist, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra. Biodiversity - Technical Report Page 37
A - 2.0 LEGISLATIVE CONTEXT The development of any Biodiversity Strategy needs to fit within the framework of national, state and regional biodiversity agreements, legislation, plans and other initiatives. Key Points • The Gosford Biodiversity Conservation needs to be considered within the framework of international biological conventions and federal, state and regional biodiversity plans, policies and legislation. • Local government has a key role in biodiversity conservation, and actions for biodiversity conservation need to occur across all areas of Council. A - 2.1 Federal and State Legislation, initiatives and Biodiversity Planning The Australian Government is a signatory to the Convention on Biological Diversity that was one of the key agreements made at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero. This has three main goals; the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of genetic resources. The Convention on Biological Diversity requires countries to develop and implement strategies for sustainable use and protection of biodiversity and to report on these actions (see http://www.unep.ch/seas/main/legal/lcbd.html, http://www.biodiv.org/doc/publications/guide, http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/international/index.html). The Convention emphasises in-situ conservation measures, with ex-situ conservation complementing these, and contains measures on the identification and monitoring of important components of biological diversity, establishment and management of protected areas, sustainable management of biological resources both within and outside protected areas, rehabilitation and restoration of degraded ecosystems, recovery of threatened species, control of pest species, control of threatening processes and activities, involvement of indigenous and local communities, sustainable customary use of biological resources, and research and training. The Commonwealth Government set National Objectives and Targets for Biodiversity Conservation for 2001-2005 (Environment Australia 2001) under ten 'priority outcomes'for the Australian Government, States and Territories. These are yet to be reviewed by the Department of EnvironmenT and Heritage to determine if they have or have not been met. At the state level, the NPWS Biodiversity Strategy (NPWS 1999) identifies the following broad objectives with local government in a support role: • Establish community partnerships. • Provide opportunities and incentives to the community to conserve biodiversity. • Work with local communities and existing conservation networks (including established Landcare, TCM groups, local government and Aboriginal Land Councils and other Aboriginal groups) to protect, repair and restore biodiversity. • Implement bioregional assessment and planning throughout NSW. • Implement mechanisms for the identification, recovery and rehabilitation of Biodiversity - Technical Report Page 38
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A - 4.5 Climate Generally the clima
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Kangaroo, possums, flying squirrels
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A - 4.9 Current Landuse Since the 1
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State government is also preparing
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Lily) was once relatively widesprea
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Figure 5.1 Native vegetation commun
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There have been few quantitative st
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Figure 5.5 Endangered ecological co
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of streams for water quality purpos
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A - 5.4 A - 5.4.1 Terrestrial Fauna
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A - 5.4.3 Invertebrates There conti
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A draft Recovery Plan has been prep
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assumption that occupancy of a site
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Variables such as ‘proportion of
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Mount Kincumba to Bouddi NP and Cop
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Scotts D (1991) “Old-growth fores
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considered. This is true for all ri
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this zone are isolated Casuarina gl
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Gulls (Larus novaehollandiae); Pied
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Patonga Creek Little information is
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A particular objective of the above
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northeast lies the suburb of North
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Lisarow Wetland Lisarow Wetland is
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• appropriately timed collection
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Almost thirty key threatening proce
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Whilst these two species appear mor
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Low (1999) surmised that this fungu
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• Structural flood mitigation wor
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Increased needs for active recreati
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A - 7.14 References Anderson, C (20
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