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Council has since received further funding from the NSW Government Environmental Trust to continue with Stage 2 of the project. Works will include further bush regeneration, formation of a bushcare group, more fencing and tree planting and educational activities. The end result of this project will be the long term restoration of a riparian corridor. A - 3.3.6 No Mow Trails A trial for “no-mow” areas was undertaken in June 2004-June 2005 to reduce mowing of lagoon foreshores and encourage natural regeneration. Three sites were selected: • the end of Farrand Crescent, Terrigal Lagoon; • Heazlett Park at Avoca; and • Illoura Reserve Davistown. A local bush regeneration company was contracted to carry out bush regeneration, seed collection and planting of native tubestock at the three sites. An education flyer was posted to all residents adjoining wetland areas highlighting the need to protect riverbank and wetland vegetation for water quality and other environmental benefits. Despite the educational information, potential for natural regeneration at the sites and the presence and labour from the bush regeneration team, the “no-mow” trial was not considered to have been successful due to the lack of support from adjoining residents (Gleeson and Wotherspoon 2005). Recommendations arising from the trial were the need for an education campaign for local residents as well as fencing off regeneration sites. A - 3.3.7 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy The Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) program aims to use local government as a source for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and thus slow global warming. The CCP program is managed in Australia by Environs Australia, and is delivered to councils in conjunction with the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO). Gosford City Council joined the CCP program in March 1999. The CCP program is broken up into five milestones, as summarised below: Milestone 1 - Inventory and Forecast The first part of Milestone 1 is to establish a base year inventory of greenhouse gas emissions to identify and quantify the major sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the Council area. Milestone 2 - Reduction Goal The Council is able to set its own reduction target by which it aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions on the base year amount calculated in Milestone 1. Milestone 3 - Local Action Plan The Action Plan is a public and formal commitment for Councils to meet their commitments to CCP. Milestone 4 - Implementation Implementation will be an ongoing task that should be undertaken by all sections of Council and the community. Biodiversity - Technical Report Page 75
Milestone 5 - Monitoring and Reporting Once measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have been implemented continual monitoring is required to judge how successful the measures have been. 1 Council has completed all five milestones. Council adopted both a corporate and community greenhouse gas reduction goal of 20% of 1996 levels by 2010. Council adopted a Corporate Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy on 25 September 2001. The Community Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy, including Council’s reduction goal, was adopted by Council on 4 June 2002. Milestone 4 was completed in October 2002. This resulted in a 5% reduction of the corporate greenhouse gas reduction goal through the purchase of GreenPower and retrofitting of lighting in the administration building. The inventory for Milestone 5 found that Council's emissions for 2002, compared to the base year of 1996, were 65% higher. As a result it is recognised that much greater effort needs to be made to meet the targets. Inaccuracies were also discovered in the 1996 data that meant that before any other actions to reduce emissions are undertaken, an effective and accurate data management system needs to be incorporated. Council's CCP committee will undertake this as they move into the CCP Plus Program. On 3 June 2003, Council resolved to join the CCP Plus program to be eligible for further funding opportunities to undertake programs, and to continue the support networks created with other CCP councils. Council was awarded a Bronze Award in the Green Globe Awards in 2003 for achieving a 5% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions based on our 1999 emissions. The reduction was largely due to the improvements in methane gas management at Kincumber Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). There are also a number of projects that Council is currently undertaking which should have a positive impact on corporate greenhouse gas emissions. These include a Landfill Methane Recovery Facility to extract methane from landfill sites to be used in generating power. The Kincumber Plant will receive methane piped in from the nearby Kincumber Landfill, as well as the methane produced during waste processing procedures at the sewage treatment plant. Methane will also be extracted at Woy Woy Landfill and used for the production of electricity. The electricity will be exported to the grid. A - 3.3.8 Cats Indoor Program To raise awareness of the need for responsible pet ownership a Council web page, brochure and stickers were prepared. The brochure and stickers were distributed to local veterinary surgeries and made available to the public through its information displays such as at the Flora Festival and via service centres. Also the images were used on the side of local buses as giant stickers as part of the Council education campaign. The two slogans used are shown below: Figure 3.28 Images and slogans from the Cats Indoors Education Campaign Biodiversity - Technical Report Page 76
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Gosford City Council BIODIVERSITY S
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CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION............
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A - 4.5 Climate ...................
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1 INTRODUCTION In accordance with C
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• Local interest groups such as B
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GOSFORD VISION 2025 INTERNATIONAL C
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Council is placing the information
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2 EXISTING SITUATION 2.1 Biodiversi
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ackdrop to areas of the City, conse
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Table 2: Statistics on Gosford's wa
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example, of the approximately 83 di
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• Biodiversity is best conserved
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6 Council to consider the developme
Page 27 and 28: Actions • Enhancing community edu
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Page 31 and 32: Appendix Gosford City Council BIODI
Page 33 and 34: CONTENTS APPENDIX GOSFORD CITY COUN
Page 35 and 36: A - 7.7 Human Interactions with Nat
Page 37 and 38: Genetic diversity is the variety of
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Page 41 and 42: A - 2.0 LEGISLATIVE CONTEXT The dev
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Page 45 and 46: areas within the Greater Metropolit
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Page 49 and 50: Biodiversity Toolbox The Commonweal
Page 51 and 52: A - 2.4 Discussion of Comparable Pl
Page 55 and 56: A - 2.6 References Australian Local
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Page 59 and 60: A - 3.2 Appraisal of biodiversity p
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A - 5.7 References Anon (1996) 'Sev
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Scotts D (1991) “Old-growth fores
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A - 6.2 Aquatic Habitats A - 6.2.1
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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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The Hawkesbury River The Hawkesbury
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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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Figure 6.11 Weedy Seadragon (Phyllo
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Lisarow Wetland Lisarow Wetland is
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Low (1999) surmised that this fungu
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A - 7.8 Fire Management Fire manage
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Increased needs for active recreati
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A - 7.14 References Anderson, C (20
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