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116 Due date Region FA section Milestone Progress Co-management and joint venture arrangements Ongoing UNE, LNE, Eden 5.1.1 SFNSW and NPWS must progressively negotiate joint management arrangements and joint ventures with local Aboriginal communities. Continuing DECC undertakes numerous joint ventures with Aboriginal communities. These occur across the landscape and all areas of the agency (including Culture and Heritage Division), although most ventures related specifically to forest management would be led by PWG. Joint ventures also occur through DECC’s engagement with catchment management authorities. Joint management arrangements are usually complemented by employment and economic development ventures. During 2007–2008, DECC was engaged in approximately 40 research and heritage projects in collaboration with Aboriginal community groups. Other examples of ventures across the State include the Aboriginal Discovery Ranger Program, associated Aboriginal Discovery activities and NAIDOC week events. DECC assists Aboriginal communities to make connections with government services that contribute to protecting country via the Protecting Our Places (POP) grants program under the Environmental. The Aboriginal Education Program, Healing, Learning, Sharing, aims to engage with Aboriginal communities in a culturally appropriate manner and working in partnership with government and non-government organisations and other stakeholders help to promote a healthier, cleaner, sustainable environment for all to share. The program has been piloted in four priority areas: metropolitan Sydney, Moree, Narooma and Bourke and helps communities to identify local environmental issues and projects. Examples of other local joint ventures follow. UNE/LNE An Arakwal cultural centre for Byron Bay has been supported and will be developed as external budgetary circumstances allow. There have also been cultural heritage surveys done in both the UNE and LNE areas. These initiatives have developed increased community awareness and understanding of the cultural heritage on DECC estate. From these initiatives the Aboriginal community has been able to make recommendations and provide valuable input into the planning and development of facilities, interpretation/education and also the development of increased awareness in the broader community of the cultural context of park areas. The Pandanus People in South West Rocks engage in restoration projects such as removing weeds from, and planting trees and shrubs in, Arakoon State Conservation Area and Hat Head National Park. In 2007–2008, they established a nursery for propagating native plants with DECC staff, and sold the plants to other planting programs to help make the nursery sustainable. DECC has allocated $31 208 to Ngympie Aboriginal Corporation to implement a water savings project on the Central Coast. The corporation will build a windmill and dam to provide more than a million litres of water a year for the Glen Centre Farm at Chittawat Bay. The project will also install pipes to deliver the water from the dam to where it is needed and save energy and emissions by using the new windmill to pump the water. The water collected will be used for livestock and horticultural projects as part of an alcohol and drug rehabilitation program. Eden Nine projects involving Aboriginal communities are in progress or have been completed: (1) Mapping of Aboriginal Pathways on the Far South Coast; (2) Bega Oral History Stage 3, combining historical and oral history into one document; (3) Bega Oral History Stage 4, presentation of information gathered in Stage 3 (begun); (4) Eurobodalla Stage 1 Aboriginal History, an annotated bibliography of cultural heritage research; (5) Eurobodalla Oral History Stage 2 Aboriginal History of Eurobodalla (completed); (6) Eurobodalla Oral History Stage 3 understanding and managing Aboriginal cultural heritage (completed) (7) Eurobodalla Oral History Stage 4 Mapping and Access Protocols for Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Information (begun); (8) Southern Region Catchment Management Authority have completed the project, ‘Indigenous links to the Potoroo’; and (9) DECC in conjunction with Forests NSW and the Southern Region Catchment Management Authority have begun a new project, ‘Indigenous links to the Koala in the Far South Coast region’. NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS
Due date Region FA section Milestone Progress 2000 1 April Ongoing Ongoing UNE, LNE UNE, LNE, Eden UNE, LNE, Eden 5.1.1 5.1.1 5.1.1 Examination of any State forest that could be considered for co-management and joint venture arrangements. Where further analysis indicates the feasibility of other ventures, a project plan must be developed for implementation. Ventures likely to generate mutual benefits to the Aboriginal, as well as the wider, community must also be considered. The Eurobodalla Heritage Study is a joint program between DECC, Eurobodalla Shire Council and Batemans Bay, Bodalla, Cobowra, Merrimans, Mogo and Wagonga Local Aboriginal Land Councils. Stage 4 incorporates the information obtained during previous stages into council planning. An oral history booklet was launched in June 2008. The Pambula River Cultural Landscape Project, which involved the Eden Local Aboriginal Lands Council, Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority and DECC, began in March 2008 and involves surveying all the midden sites and developing a management plan. The estimated completion date is the end of 2009. Further information on joint ventures between DECC and Aboriginal communities, including the Aboriginal Discovery program, can also be found in annual reports available at www.environment.nsw.gov.au/whoweare/reports.htm Forests NSW Two co-management agreements for Eden were in place during 2006–2007 within Wallagaraugh (3 081 ha) and Letts Mountain (906 ha) forests. In LNE an MoU, signed between Forests NSW and the Anaiwan Aboriginal Corporation in 2004, continues to be implemented for certain areas within Nowendoc and Riamukka State forests. Under the MoU, Forests NSW gains cooperation with pest and weed control, fire detection, fire control and building maintenance, while the Anaiwan elders will use the area for camping, caretaker accommodation and cultural heritage teaching. In addition, two co-management agreements are in place in LNE, for Keepa Keepa Cultural Place in Heaton SF, where an additional 764 ha was placed under the scope of the co-management agreement, and Warre Warren Aboriginal Place. The NSW Government and the Githabul people entered into an Indigenous Land Use Agreement, which includes 13 State forests in UNE Region, in February 2007. In Progress The NSW Government and the Githabul people entered into an ILUA, which includes 13 State forests in the UNE Region, in February 2007 Continuing No new ventures requiring project plans were initiated during 2007–2008. Continuing Forests NSW Although several ventures are in progress, no formal venture arrangements were entered into in 2007–2008. DECC Continuing. See negotiation of ‘joint management arrangements and joint ventures with local Aboriginal communities’ above. NSW FOREST AGREEMENTS AND INTEGRATED FORESTRY OPERATIONS APPROVALS 117
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