Conservation Reserves Management Strategy 2003 - Parks Victoria

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Historic and Cultural Features Reserves range in size from 8779 ha to 1 ha. Only 17 HCFRs arelarger than 400 ha. Among the largest are Mount Wills HA (8779 ha), Grant HA (7437 ha) andCassilis HA (4353 ha) all in the Alpine district, Castlemaine–Chewton HA (3609 ha) in the MurrayCentral district, and Walhalla HA (2635 ha) in the West Gippsland district.FIGURE 3NUMBER OF CONSERVATION RESERVES BY SIZE CLASS14001200NCRNFRHCFRNo. of Conservation Reserves10008006004002000extremely small (< 10) very small (10 - 200) small (200 - 400) large (>400)Size (ha)The largest area of Conservation Reserves is in the West region; Conservation Reserves within thisregion comprise 58% (270 734 ha) of the total area of Conservation Reserves in the state (Table 6,Map 2). West region also has the greatest area of Nature Conservation Reserves (26% of the totalarea) and Natural Features Reserves (31% of the total area), while East region has the greatest areaof Historical and Cultural Features Reserves (6% of the total area). In contrast, MelbourneMetropolitan region has the smallest area of Conservation Reserves (< 1% of the total area) and thesmallest area of each reserve category.Parks Victoria districts with the largest area of Conservation Reserves are Mallee (31% of the totalarea), Grampians (18%) and Murray Central (14%). In contrast, the six districts within the City andBays and Melbourne Metropolitan regions have < 3% of the total area of Conservation Reserves in thestate.Figure 4 shows, for each district, the area of each reserve category as a percentage of the total areaof that category in the state. The largest representation by area of reserve categories is Historical andCultural Features Reserves in the Alpine district: 58% of the total area of this category is found in thisdistrict, while 23% of the area of Historical and Cultural Features Reserves occurs in Murray Central.Almost 50% of the total area of Nature Conservation Reserves occurs in the Mallee, while 13% occurswithin both the Grampians and Murray Central districts. The largest areas of Natural FeaturesReserves are in the Grampians and Mallee districts: 28% and 25% of the total area of this categoryoccurs in these two districts, respectively.17
FIGURE 4PERCENTAGE AREA OF EACH CONSERVATION RESERVE CATEGORY BY DISTRICT7060NCRNFRHCFR% area of reserve categories50403020100Basalt PlainsCentral HighlandsMurray CentralCity & WaterwaysMornington / WesternportPort PhillipAlpineEast GippslandWest GippslandDistrictDandenongsEast MetropolitanYarraGrampiansMalleeWest CoastIn over 50% of districts, Natural Features Reserves contribute the greatest percentage of area withineach district, with Port Phillip having the highest percentage area of Natural Features Reserves (77%).Five districts, however, have a greater representation by area of Nature Conservation Reserves thanNatural Feature Reserves. The Mornington/Westernport and Yarra districts contain the greatestpercentage area of Nature Conservation Reserves (84% and 81% of area, respectively). The Alpinedistrict has the largest percentage area of Historical and Cultural Features Reserves, which constitute54% of the total area of reserves within this district.3.1.2 ConnectivityIn the absence of a detailed survey/analysis of the amount of indigenous vegetation surroundingreserves, the size of the surrounding vegetation and the distance to the nearest vegetation, thefollowing analysis of the percentage of the reserve boundary bordered by adjacent vegetation 1 ispresented as a broad indication of the extent of fragmentation of reserves across the landscape.EVCs consist of one or a number of floristic communities that exist under a common regime ofecological processes within a particular environment. They are modelled to represent the mostdetailed level of vegetation typology available. EVC mapping is yet to be completed in the north-westof the state for 24% (645) of the Conservation Reserves. The limitations of using EVC data areoutlined in section 3.3.At the EVC level, some 19% of all Conservation Reserves have no adjacent indigenous vegetation. Afurther 22% (581) of all Conservation Reserves have less than 10% of their boundary with adjacentindigenous vegetation. More than half (54%) of all Conservation Reserves have less than 30% of theirboundary with adjacent indigenous vegetation (Table 7).1Source of data: Ecological Vegetation Classes EVC layer, DSE corporate geospatial dataset18
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