Tender for the Programme - South West Catchments Council

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South West Regional NRM Strategy – Ancillary Document
systematic; however, it did not necessarily encourage early stakeholder involvement. In the trials the Planning Key and its
associated free software were found to be particularly useful in assisting with the development of Community Engagement
Plans (CEPs). Especially useful was the CLIP (Collaboration, Conflict, Interest and Power) method for profiling stakeholders
principally because it helped identify the engagement type (inform, consult, involve, collaborate, empower) needed to meet the
different needs and expectations of stakeholders. However, future users of the Planning Key (Project Officers) should
understand that they still need to make decisions about which specific engagement tools (e.g. interviews, focus groups,
workshops etc) they will use in their engagements. The IAP2 spectrum (2006), which is an integral component of the Planning
Key, can assist in identifying appropriate tools according to budgetary and/or other limiting factors. Importantly, the Planning
Key also encouraged the development of evaluation strategies (to help determine the effectiveness of the engagement) and
learning strategies (to help build human and institutional capital during the engagement), both of which are easily neglected
during time-constrained projects as practitioners seek to meet broader project objectives. Future research with the Planing Key
should consider how well the emergent CEPs align with or can be integrated into broader NRM project planning.
Mincherton, G 2008 Buayanyup River Action Plan. Technical report prepared for Geographe
Catchment Council, Busselton and Department of Water, Perth. 110pp.
This action plan provides information about the current health of the Buayanyup Catchment and recommendations on how to
manage it better. The Pen-Scott Foreshore Condition Assessment Method was used to undertake assessments of the
foreshore with local landholders and community members and a summary of the foreshore condition ratings of the river is
presented.
NTNU 2012 New quantitative method enables researchers to assess environmental risks posed by nonnative
species. The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in ScienceDaily. Retrieved Dec
29, 2011, from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111226093008.htm
Emerging technology: A coalition of researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and staff
from the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre have created a unique quantitative method that enables researchers and
others to assess the environmental risks posed by non-native species (unfortunately currently only available in Norwegian, but
planned for translation). While the method is tailored to the Norwegian environment, it can easily be adapted to other countries,
and fills a vital need internationally for a quantifiable, uniform approach to classifying and assessing alien species, the
developers say. "This provides an objective classification of these species' potential impact on the Norwegian environment. We
relied on much of the same principles as are used in the preparation of the 'Red List' of endangered and threatened species,"
says Professor Bernt-Erik Saether at NTNU's Center for Conservation Biology (CCB), who has spearheaded the development of
the new methodology along with a coalition of other Norwegian biologists and staff from the Biodiversity Information Centre.
The method classifies species according to their reproductive ability, growth rate, individual densities, population densities,
prevalence and their effect. This information allows the researchers to plot the risks posed by each species on two axes, one
which shows the likelihood of the species' dispersal and ability to establish itself in the environment (along with its rate of
establishment, if applicable) and the other shows the degree to which the alien species will affect native species and habitats.
Based on the combined values of the two axes, the species can be placed in one of five risk categories:
Very high risk species that can have a strong negative effect on the Norwegian environment;
High risk species that have spread widely with some ecological impact, or those that have a major ecological effect but have
only limited distribution;
Potentially high risk species that have very limited dispersal ability, but a substantial ecological impact or vice versa;
Low risk species, with low or moderate dispersion and moderate to limited ecological effect;
Species with no known risk factors that are not known to have spread and have no known ecological effects.
Pen, LJ, HS Gill, P Humphries and IC Potter 1993 Biology of the black-stripe minnow Galaxiella
nigrostriata, including comparisons with the other two Galaxiella species. J.Fish Biol. 43(6): 847-63.
The growth, age composition, reproductive biology and diet of Galaxiella nigrostriata in seasonal water bodies in south-western
Australia are described and compared with G. munda and G. pusilla. Like the other two Galaxiella species, G. nigrostriata has a
1-year life cycle. The mean length attained by female G. nigrostriata at sexual maturity is approximately 37 mm, compared with
about 47 and 28 mm for G. munda and G. pusilla, respectively. Like G. munda, G. nigrostriata is a multiple spawner. Although
all three Galaxiella species breed mainly in winter and early spring, spawning occurs earlier in G. nigrostriata than in the other
two species. An early production of offspring enables the young females and males of this species to reach approximately 78
and 88%, respectively, of their ultimate body length by early summer. Such a prolonged period of early and relatively rapid
growth is advantageous to G. nigrostriata, since this species lives in water bodies that often dry up during the summer and early
autumn and thus cannot grow during this period. The gonads start to undergo rapid development in autumn, when the pools
begin to fill with water following the onset of the seasonal rains. All three Galaxiella species are carnivores. Galaxiella
nigrostriata mainly takes prey from the water column and the water surface, G. pusilla focuses on prey in the water column and
benthos, and G. munda feeds widely on prey on the water surface, throughout the water column and from the benthos. The
prevalence of small prey, such as cladocera and calanoid copepods, is greater in the diets of G. nigrostriata and G. pusilla than
in that of G. munda. Electronic version not available.
PHCC 2005 Peel-Harvey Catchment natural resource management plan. Prepared by Land
Assessment Pty Ltd for the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council (PHCC), Mandurah, WA. 114 pp.
Key strategy produced by one of six sub-regional catchment management groups, listing key assets, threats and priority actions
to address these. Resources (assets) are discussed under the headings land resources, water resources, biodiversity, coastal
environment, marine environment, air, climate, and people & culture. Importantly, only issues (threats) and appropriate actions
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