NATURAL HERITAGE STRATEGY - Hume City Council
NATURAL HERITAGE STRATEGY - Hume City Council
NATURAL HERITAGE STRATEGY - Hume City Council
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NATIVE VEGETATION CONTINUED<br />
GOAL: To Foster Community Learning and Action<br />
Objective<br />
Action / Activity<br />
Key Performance Indicators<br />
(KPI’s) and Targets:<br />
KPI 8: Positive change in<br />
community awareness of the value<br />
of native vegetation.<br />
Target: 40% increase in<br />
community awareness by 2015.<br />
NV8 - Raise<br />
community<br />
awareness about<br />
the value of native<br />
vegetation in <strong>Hume</strong><br />
by:<br />
NV8.1<br />
Developing and undertaking a community<br />
awareness campaign for grasslands in <strong>Hume</strong>,<br />
including the production of:<br />
• Educational materials (fact sheets and<br />
posters)<br />
• Media articles.<br />
NV8.2<br />
Publicising all prosecutions of illegal native<br />
vegetation removed in <strong>Hume</strong>.<br />
KPI 9: Positive change in<br />
community capacity to manage<br />
native vegetation.<br />
Target: 40% increase in<br />
community capacity to manage<br />
native vegetation by 2015.<br />
NV9 - Build the<br />
capacity of rural<br />
landowners to<br />
manage native<br />
vegetation on their<br />
land by:<br />
NV9.1<br />
Facilitating an annual training course / field day<br />
on native vegetation management through<br />
the Live Green Program. Priority topics should<br />
include:<br />
• Grazing management<br />
• Weed and pest animal control<br />
• Regeneration and revegetation<br />
• Plant identification<br />
GOAL: To Influence and Advocate<br />
Key Performance Indicators<br />
(KPI’s) and Targets:<br />
KPI 10: Increase in weed<br />
compliance in <strong>Hume</strong> by the State<br />
government.<br />
Objective<br />
NV10 - Protect<br />
native vegetation<br />
from the threat of<br />
weeds by:<br />
Action / Activity<br />
NV10.1<br />
Advocating to the DPI for more weed<br />
compliance and extension in <strong>Hume</strong>.<br />
Target: 20 annual DPI<br />
compliance inspections in<br />
<strong>Hume</strong> by 2015.<br />
14 HUME CITY COUNCIL <strong>NATURAL</strong> <strong>HERITAGE</strong> <strong>STRATEGY</strong> ACTION PLAN 2011 - 2015