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The Fitz- Stirling Functional Landscape Plan in Action – A CAP story

The Fitz- Stirling Functional Landscape Plan in Action – A CAP story. 1a) Project Team - I’m just the story-teller. Partners: The Nature Conservancy Bush Heritage Australia Gondwana Link Ltd Fitzgerald River Biosphere Group South Coast NRM (early on) Corporate Donors Shell

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The Fitz- Stirling Functional Landscape Plan in Action – A CAP story

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  1. The Fitz-Stirling Functional Landscape Plan in Action – A CAP story

  2. 1a) Project Team - I’m just the story-teller • Partners: • The Nature Conservancy • Bush Heritage Australia • Gondwana Link Ltd • Fitzgerald River Biosphere Group • South Coast NRM (early on) • Corporate Donors • Shell • Lottery West • WesFarmers • Mirabella • Others….

  3. 1b) Conceptualize – Project Scope – Multiple scales

  4. Fitz-Stirling: area of main focus is within 10 kilometres of a line between Ellen Peak to Wangup Well. 70 km link

  5. Conservation Targets

  6. Proteaceous Rich Communities Mallet And Moort Woodlands

  7. 3. Flat-topped Yate (Or Swamp Yate) Woodlands 4. Tammar And Black-gloved Wallabies

  8. 5. Creeks 6. Freshwater Systems

  9. The sustainability imperative

  10. Fitz-Stirling Objectives* • Restore 16,000 ha of native vegetation…. • Protect and enhance 60,000 ha of remnant vegetation… • Improve the condition of 60% of creeks within 3 catchments • Increase the population of wallabies by 30% To be achieved by 2013-2017 *From The Fitz-Stirling Functional Landscape Plan V 2.0

  11. 2a) Fitz-Stirling Strategies* • Land acquisition • Ecological restoration • Long-term ecological management • Native plant-based enterprises • Noongar Cultural Corridor (reconnecting communities) • Bush University *Greening Australia’s priorities

  12. 2b. Measures – Biodiversity, creek health and livelihoods • Outcomes monitoring conducted by Bush Heritage Australia • Birds • Reptiles • Small mammals • Creek condition (baseline) • Greening Australia • Revegetation success

  13. 3. Implement & Monitor – Indicators of Success – THE MAP

  14. Property acquisitions through time • Past 7 or so years • Closing the landscape gap! • Compiled by Amanda Keesing, Gondwana Link Ltd

  15. The latest acquisition ‘Monjebup North’- Bush Heritage Australia (April 2010)

  16. Implement & Monitor - Restoration Successes • 1600 ha revegetated (objective 10% completed) • 996 ha of this reveg on private farms (Shell Reconnections Project) Aril 2010

  17. Yarrabee June 2007

  18. April 2010

  19. April 2010

  20. Implement & Monitor Reconnecting Communities: Noongar Cultural Corridor • Education • Youth rehabilitation • Noongar Elder Eugene Eades – Award winner

  21. Celebrating on-country

  22. Multiple generations reconnecting to country & culture

  23. 4. Adapt & Improve; from the beginning!Have a good look around….

  24. 3.5m

  25. Traditional plantings Remnant Vegetation Benchmark

  26. Too dense, bare understory

  27. 3.5m

  28. Learn and adapt: GreatPlains5 ‘habitat seeder’; 7m pass; ~40ha/day 1.4m 1.4m 1.4m 1.4m

  29. Learn and adapt

  30. Monitoring – a structured way of learning In collaboration with UWA

  31. Monitoring: 42 plots (20 x 14m) across 6 vegetation associations • 50 species identified to date

  32. 4. Adapt and Improve Much improved ! Traditional planting

  33. Courage to learn and improve ‘Lifting the Bar’ ‘Old school’

  34. Still much to learn and improve… Peniup, April 2010

  35. 5) Capture and Share learnings – closing the loop

  36. 1) Conservation takes time Partner capacity Impact Implementation Pilot Planning 20 years Time

  37. Great leadership needs a great team ~2005

  38. Adaptation should drive conception “Past efforts, necessary but insufficient” - Robert Lambeck

  39. 1. Objectives & Strategies 2. Inputs (actions) 3. Outputs (consequences) 4. Outcomes (consequences) Monitoring starts at the beginning Start here!! • Measured and reported at 4 scales: • National • State/Territory • Landscape • Site/project *GA Board May ‘09

  40. ‘Love tough love’ TNC Audit – Bring it ON!!

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