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NATIONAL RESERVE SYSTEM 2008 –2013 Flooded Creek in Fish River, Northern Territory caring for our country Achievements Report NATIONAL RESERVE SYSTEM 2008 –2013 Flooded creek in Fish River, Northern Territory. Source: DSEWPaC National Reserve System Increases to the National Reserve System are helping to conserve Australia’s distinctive landscapes, plants and animals and build a comprehensive, adequate and representative system of reserves across Australia. 3 Table of contents Introduction 5 Outcome 1 By 2013, Caring for our Country will expand the area that is protected within the National Reserve System to at least 125 million hectares (a 25 per cent increase), with priority to be given to increasing the area that is protected in under-represented bioregions. 7 Case study: Murray-Darling Basin, New South Wales 9 Case study: Natural Temperate Grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain, Victoria 13 Case study: Gowan Brae, Tasmania 14 Case study: Fish River Indigenous ownership and management project, Northern Territory 16 Case study: Henbury Station, Northern Territory 17 Outcome 2 By 2013, Caring for our Country will expand the contribution of Indigenous Protected Areas to the National Reserve System by between 8 and 16 million hectares (an increase of at least 40 per cent). 19 Case study: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, South Australia 22 Case study: Indigenous knowledge improving management of the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory 25 Case study: Boorabee and the Willows property, New South Wales 26 Outcome 3 By 2013, Caring for our Country will increase from 70 per cent to 100 per cent the proportion of Australian government-funded protected areas under the National Reserve System that are effectively implementing plans of management. 30 Case study: Bally Mountain and Rosegum, Queensland 32 Securing a sustainable environment for the future – Phase II Caring for our Country 2013–2018 33 References 34 Introduction The National Reserve System is Australia’s network The National Reserve System also plays an important of formally recognised protected areas and is the role in protecting habitat for threatened species and cornerstone of national efforts to provide long-term ecosystems, as well as internationally significant protection of terrestrial biodiversity. It represents World Heritage and Ramsar values. The reserve system Australia’s commitment to protect the land and inland creates large permanently protected areas within water systems vital to the survival of our unique recognised biodiversity corridors, supporting species native species, ecosystems and associated cultural migration through the landscape and building flexibility values, for future generations. The National Reserve for species to respond to future climate change. System includes protected areas across the country established, and effectively managed, by the Australian Funding was provided under Caring for our Country to Government, state, territory and local governments, conservation partners to purchase land for establishing new reserves, support voluntary perpetual conservation Indigenous communities, private landholders and National Reserve System non-government organisations. Strong partnerships covenants on private land and for the self-determined and collaboration underpin the success of the network. declaration and management of Indigenous Protected Areas by Indigenous people. Indigenous Protected The creation of a comprehensive, adequate and Areas make a significant contribution to biodiversity representative National Reserve System also conservation and comprise almost 25 per cent of the complements other measures to achieve National Reserve System. In northern and remote conservation and the sustainable use of the landscape. Australia, funding assisted with protecting key natural The protected area network is a key element in assets, including land of particular cultural relevance meeting the Australian Government’s international to Indigenous Australians. commitment to the 1993 Convention on Biological Diversity. The convention specifies a global target of Some of the most exciting outcomes have come conserving 17 per cent of terrestrial land and inland through opportunities to develop new Indigenous waters by 2020 through ecologically representative and partnerships, to explore innovative ways for combining well-connected systems of protected areas. Australia carbon sequestration and income generation with currently has almost 10 000 terrestrial protected conservation, and to support high quality science areas covering more than 117 million hectares, or which enhances our knowledge and understanding of 15.25 per cent of our land mass, and we are well on Australia’s significant and unique biodiversity. track to meet our international and national obligations. Several challenges were encountered in expanding the The Australian and state and territory governments National Reserve System under Caring for our Country have committed to Australia’s Strategy for the National in under-represented bioregions. One challenge was Reserve System 2009–2030 which establishes a the limited number of suitable properties available for national partnership approach and provides guidance purchase in under-represented bioregions which met on the development and management of the protected funding criteria as well as being consistent with the area network. The strategy complements other conservation interests of partners. policy frameworks including: Australia’s Biodiversity Similarly, the ability to prioritise conservation in Conservation Strategy 2010-2030, Australia’s Native under-represented regions through Indigenous Vegetation Framework and the National Wildlife Protected Areas was constrained by the location of Corridors Plan. land currently held by Indigenous people who are The overarching objective of the National Reserve interested in the voluntary declaration and long-term System is to protect a comprehensive range of management of their land as an Indigenous ecosystems and other important environmental values Protected Area. within each of Australia’s bioregions. Caring for our Some proponents also noted that fixed funding Country prioritised an increase in reservation in cycles limited their capacity to respond quickly to under-represented bioregions: those bioregions land purchase opportunities as they arose. with less than 10 per cent of their extent protected in reserves. 5 The Australian Government identified three key outcomes for the National Reserve System to be delivered under Caring for our Country by 2013. These were: » expand the area that is protected within the National Reserve System to at least 125 million hectares (a 25 per cent increase), with priority to be given to increasing the area that is protected in under-represented bioregions » expand the contribution of Indigenous Protected Areas to the National Reserve System by between 8 and 16 million hectares (an increase of at least 40 per cent) » increase from 70 per cent to 100 per cent the proportion of Australian Government-funded protected areas under the National Reserve System that are effectively implementing plans of management. ¯ 0 250 500 1,000 km Caring for our Country projects Under represented IBRA Region Indigenous Protected Area Yes NRS Program No Outlining the Caring for our Country funded National Reserve System properties and Indigenous Protected Areas with under-represented bioregions. Source: ERIN, DSEWPaC Outcome 1 By 2013, Caring for our Country will Northern and remote Australia contains some of the expand the area that is protected within most important and intact high value landscapes in the National Reserve System to at least the country and was a national priority area in the 125 million hectares (a 25 per cent first five years of Caring for our Country. In this time, the National Reserve System increased within northern increase), with priority to be given to and remote Australia by over 17.5 million hectares with increasing the area that is protected in the addition of 22 National Reserve System properties under-represented bioregions. and declaration of 15 Indigenous Protected Areas in this region. Australian Government investments in the National Reserve System through Caring for our Country resulted in a major increase in the protection of environmentally significant land in collaboration Caring for our Country funding National Reserve System with state, territory and local governments, private assisted with: land owners, non-government organisations and Indigenous communities. » adding 17 900 997 hectares to the National Reserve System, a total increase of over Caring for our Country supported the acquisition of 18 per cent of the protected area estate some of the largest properties ever purchased for within five years the National Reserve System, including Henbury » working with government, non-government Station (527 293 hectares) in the Northern Territory and Indigenous partners to purchase, and Witchelina (420 101 hectares) in South Australia. establish and manage 74 new land In addition, the declaration of the Southern Tanami, acquisitions covering 2 291 726 hectares recognised the largest Indigenous Protected Area at 10.16 million hectares. The immense size of these » supporting Indigenous communities to newly protected areas not only contributes to the declare 28 Indigenous Protected Areas overall extent of the National Reserve System, covering an immense area of over but also helped to achieve better protection of 15 609 271 hectares under-represented bioregions and
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