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Better incentives for private landholders. Maintenance of the catchment's biodiversity requires more than just maintenance of the extent and improvement of the quality of native vegetation cover. The recognition and protection of catchment biodiversity corridors will be a key mechanism is sustainable conservation of biodiversity and many species that are threatened. It will also demand targeted action for active interventions to support threatened species and management action to reduce threats posed by threatening processes, particularly those associated with invasive plant and animal species (HNCAP 84:2007. The Hunter - Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan has the aim to maintain or improve biodiversity. To achieve this aim they have identified a number of guiding principles. The first ten (10) guiding principles are:- 1. Protection biodiversity should be achieved through regulatory and planning controls to prevent species and habitat decline, forming conservation areas for long-term protection (e.g. parks, reserves and aquatic reserves) and appropriate planning that considers future impacts (such as climate change and population increase) on biodiversity. 2. The CMA will support in principle planning measures, which reduce and avoid impacts of development on threatened species and communities such as Regional Conservation Plans and the Biodiversity Offsets and Banking Scheme. 3. Broadscale clearing of native vegetation as defined by the Native Vegetation Act 2003 should end. 4. Regionally significant vegetation (RSV) should be protected and all representative vegetation communities be retained. 5. The habitat of threatened species, communities and populations should be protected and, where possible, improve. Key threatening processes should be taken into consideration in planning landuse change. 6. Where practical, future development (e.g. residential, industrial) should be restricted to primarily cleared land. Where loss of vegetation is unavoidable, native vegetation offsets should be used. 7. Strategic planning should be guided by a regional approach to biodiversity management which co-ordinates policies from the Native Vegetation Act 2003 and other relevant legislation. 8. Local environment plans should aim to manage native vegetation to be consistent with a regional approach to biodiversity management which co-ordinates policies from the Native Vegetation Act 2003 and other relevant legislation. 9. Landscapes should be managed to improve (or at least not threaten) biodiversity. This should include minimizing pollution and soil erosion, maintaining soil health pressure, water use and recreation (e.g. recreational fishing). The appropriate landuse must be specific to each particular site. 10. Planning for biodiversity should improve the health of ecosystems by increasing the connectivity and the size of habitat remnants." Catchment Management Authorities allocate Natural Heritage Trust funding and will report on environmental programs in accordance with the state targets being developed by the Natural Resource Commission. A - 2.2.2 Regional Planning The Department of Planning (DoP) is responsible for broad regional strategic planning and is preparing a Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney. This will include separate regional strategies for Biodiversity - Technical Report Page 41
areas within the Greater Metropolitan Region that includes the Central Coast region. The Regional Strategies will "set directions for managing growth and change in the regions and will complement the directions for Sydney" (http://www.metrostrategy.nsw.gov.au/dev. Key regional centres will be identified such as Gosford where more compact and dense urban development is planned (pers. comm. Stephen Higham DoP 2005). A previous strategic plan, The Shaping the Central Coast report (DUAP 1999), contains a number of biodiversity related desired outcomes. Of these, two are for stronger integration of biodiversity issues into decision making and a strengthened ability to make land use decisions in an integrated way, at all levels of government from strategic to operational roles. The strategy provides the following vision for the Central Coast region; that it: "be noted and cherished for its environmental quality and that population growth and development needs be managed to protect and enhance this significant regional attribute. " Development of the Metropolitan Strategy will need to effectively incorporate biodiversity protection and conservation measures, whilst balancing the objectives for locating future urban development and meeting expected future population growth. A - 2.2.3 The Lower Hunter Central Coast Regional Environmental Management (LHCCREMS) Biodiversity Strategy As a member of the Lower Hunter and Central Coast Regional Environmental Management Strategy (LHCCREMS), Council along with the other six member councils participated in the development of a Regional Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (RCBS) in 2002/03. The RBCS project sought to develop a strategy and implementation plan to protect the natural, biological diversity of the Lower Hunter and Central Coast in order to maintain existing ecological processes for future generations. It aimed to enhance integration of biodiversity information into the current and future land use planning processes, providing greater clarity to all land managers. The Principles that guide the implementation of the RCBS were: • Biodiversity is best conserved in its natural environment. • Successful biodiversity conservation will require the cooperation and support of all levels of government and the whole community. • Conserving biodiversity requires management of threatening processes by identifying, preventing and mitigating the causes of biodiversity loss. • Biodiversity issues need to be incorporated into planning and management processes. • Action can be taken now to ensure the conservation of biodiversity in the region and future actions should be implemented on the basis of upgraded information as it becomes available. • A regional system of protected areas or lands dedicated to conservation management should be comprehensive, adequate and representative. • Corridors should link the elements of such a system wherever possible. The Regional Conservation Assessment 2003 and Recommended Regional Conservation Strategy & Implementation Plan 2003 (Morison and House in LHCCREMS 2003) provides a comprehensive regional strategy for Council to consider. As summarised in Table 1.2 it Biodiversity - Technical Report Page 42
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State government is also preparing
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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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considered. This is true for all ri
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this zone are isolated Casuarina gl
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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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A - 7.14 References Anderson, C (20
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