Environmental Stewardship
Box Gum Grassy Woodand Project Implementation Plan
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
August 2008
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About this document
Caring for our Country - Environmental Stewardship seeks to maintain and improve the quality and extent of targeted high public value environmental assets on private land.
Environmental assets will be targeted from the following matters of National Environmental Significance (NES) as listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999:
- nationally endangered or vulnerable species and ecological communities;
- migratory species and wetlands for which Australia has international responsibilities; and
- natural values associated with world and national heritage places.
Environmental Stewardship will engage private land managers in long-term (up to 15 years) contracts to manage these assets, using a range of market based approaches where appropriate.
The Box Gum Grassy Woodland ecological community, defined under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as "White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland", is the first high public value environmental asset to be targeted under the Environmental Stewardship Program.
This Implementation Plan specifies the operational and implementation details for the Box Gum Grassy Woodland project in all targeted areas. It is intended to assist those who will directly implement and participate in the Box Gum Grassy Woodland project as well as provide an informative resource for those who may wish to review the project at a future date.
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