DRAFT Tuart Conservation and Management Strategy

OUTCOME 6: INCENTIVES
Institutional arrangements will provide incentives and
support to landowners and land managers for the
conservation and management of tuart and its ecosystems.
AIM: Develop new incentive schemes for tuart conservation and
management
Targets
Strategies
41. By Q1 2006 an ‘incentives
toolkit’ for landholders is developed
and implemented.
• Establish a threshold below which landholders meet land
management obligations and above which landowners
begin to provide public benefits and services.
• Develop a tuart land stewardship payment scheme for
tuart conservation and management on private land
where public benefits and services are provides.
• Pursue taxation reforms that reward tuart woodland
conservation and management and encourages
philanthropic support.
• Develop and implement an ‘incentives toolkit’ that
provides a variety of mechanisms for increasing
landholder motivation to conserve and manage tuart
woodlands.
• Introduce non-financial payments such as awards and
accreditation systems
• Work with local authorities to build on and progress
options for council rebates and rate reductions.
AIM: Develop markets for tuart conservation and management
Targets
Strategies
42. The amount of corporate and
private sector investment in tuart
conservation and management
grows by 5 per cent each year over
the next decade.
• Establish commitments linked to incentive schemes for
corporate and private sector investment in tuart
conservation and management.
• Investigate tradable clearing entitlements within the
context of the ‘no-net-loss’ principles.
• Establish a target for private sector investment in tuart
conservation and management.
• Investigate, introduce and/or expand the system of
‘carbon credits’ for providing environmental benefits for
tuart conservation and management.
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