DRAFT Tuart Conservation and Management Strategy

OUTCOME 1: CONSERVATION
Tuart and its ecosystems will be adequately conserved and
sustainably managed in reserves and on private lands
AIM: Enhance tuart conservation and management across all land
categories
Targets
Strategies
3. By Q1 2008 a network of effective
habitat/wildlife corridors is in place.
• Develop corridor specifications, define an appropriate
corridor network and nominate benefited species.
4. By Q1 2007 the rate of tuart reestablishment
exceeds the rate of
tuart clearing.
5. By Q2 2005 appropriate
conservation and management of
tuart woodlands is identified as a high
priority in all statutory, strategic and
local land use development plans.
• Develop and implement a strategy for linking tuart
woodlands that builds on: (i) existing systems of reserves,
parks and forests, and (ii) land protected through
voluntary conservation agreements.
• Maintain a database of tuart clearing, regeneration,
rehabilitation and restoration on former tuart woodland
sites in a Geographic Information System.
• Investigate mechanisms 12 , for maintaining, regenerating
and rehabilitating tuart woodlands as a condition of
development approval on the Swan Coastal Plain.
• Develop assessment approaches for tuart conservation
relative to development planning and environmental
approval processes.
• Liaise with Natural Resource Management groups to
ensure strategic/local plans address the conservation and
management of tuart woodlands.
• Liaise with Natural Resource Management groups to
ensure Natural Heritage Trust grants address
issues/areas of high priority for the conservation and
management of tuart woodlands.
• Establish ‘agreements’ with land, infrastructure and
mining development proponents, on appropriate tuart
conservation and management during the project phase,
and rehabilitation and maintenance after project
completion.
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Mechanisms include: (i) restrictive covenants, (ii) amending town planning schemes to require no clearing of
tuarts trees without prior written approval of local authorities, and (iii) application of the Environmental Protection
Act Amendment 2002 legally binding all development (or land use change) involving tuart woodlands with
conditions for development that ensures regeneration and rehabilitation of cleared tuart sites
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