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Draft AHC Biodiversity Strategy Adelaide Hills Council Biodiversity Strategy Lake Woorabinda with approaching storm. Image courtesy of Brian Cartwright, 2013 Contents Mayor’s message ............................................................................................................................... ii Executive summary .......................................................................................................................... iii 1. What is Biodiversity? ................................................................................................................. 1 2. Why develop a Strategy? ........................................................................................................... 2 3. Legislative & Policy Context ....................................................................................................... 4 4. Biodiversity of the Adelaide Hills Council District........................................................................ 5 5. Strategy Development ............................................................................................................. 13 6. The Strategy ............................................................................................................................ 14 6.1 Vision ............................................................................................................................... 14 6.2 Guiding principles ............................................................................................................ 14 6.3 Objectives, Strategies and Actions .................................................................................... 15 6.3.1 Land Use Planning .................................................................................................... 16 6.3.2 Habitat Expansion, Connectivity and Linkages........................................................... 18 6.3.3 Bushfire Management .............................................................................................. 20 6.3.4 Roadsides and Road Reserves ................................................................................... 21 6.3.5 Habitat Quality ......................................................................................................... 22 6.3.6 Sustainable Land Management Practices .................................................................. 25 6.3.7 Community Capacity Building ................................................................................... 26 6.3.8 Partnerships ............................................................................................................. 28 6.3.9 Resources and funding ............................................................................................. 29 7. Monitoring and Evaluation....................................................................................................... 30 8. References ............................................................................................................................... 31 10. Appendices .......................................................................................................................... 33 Appendix 1 - Glossary .................................................................................................................. 33 Appendix 2 - Key Legislation and Policy affecting biodiversity management in the AHC District. .. 35 Appendix 3 - Threatened Fauna of the Adelaide & Mt Lofty Ranges Region ................................. 39 Appendix 4 - Key Fauna, Flora and Vegetation Communities of Conservation Significance in the District ......................................................................................................................................... 41 Appendix 5 - Threatened Flora of the Adelaide & Mt Lofty Ranges Region ................................... 42 Appendix 6 –Strategy Consultation Schedule ............................................................................... 45 Appendix 6 - Summary of Themes, Aims, Strategies and Actions .................................................. 46 Adelaide Hills Council Biodiversity Strategy 2013 i Mayor’s message The native flora and fauna of our region contributes to the character of the Adelaide Hills, and many of the ecosystems and the services they provide are essential to our productivity, economy, health and sense of wellbeing. Our district boasts a wide range of habitats, including our iconic stringybark forests, red gums and sedges of our waterways and the specialist vegetation of our wetland systems. Our plants and wildlife continue to face a number of challenges. The area contains a significant proportion of the state’s remaining native vegetation, in particular ecosystems adapted to higher rainfall. These ecosystems are vulnerable to a number of threats including weed invasion, habitat fragmentation, risk of fire, and climate change. The Biodiversity Strategy is our response to these threats and details activities the Council will be undertaking over the following years to both conserve and improve local biodiversity on Council managed land. These include weed management, habitat conservation and expansion, improving our knowledge about how we can best manage our local biodiversity and supporting the community in their activities to protect and support biodiversity. We share this responsibility with government agencies and the numerous, dedicated and skilled volunteers that continue to work on Council land, within the State Conservation Parks and, on their own private properties. Our thanks is extended to all the Council staff, elected members, community groups, government agencies, non-government organisations and industry professionals that participated in the development of this Strategy. We will continue to work together to improve local biodiversity and to support ecosystems and the services they provide to enable them, and ourselves, to thrive. Bill Spragg Mayor, Adelaide Hills Council Adelaide Hills Council Biodiversity Strategy 2013 ii Executive summary Australia is an ancient continent consisting of a variety of habitats and microclimates which support an impressive variety of distinctive and often unusual plants and animals. Australia, one of 17 megadiverse countries, is recognised globally for its abundance of different species, many of which are notably unique. The Adelaide Hills Council (the Council) district itself is located within the Mount Lofty Ranges, an Australian Government biodiversity hotspot, where a high variety of locally native flora and fauna species continue to survive since European settlement. Due to the vast changes to the Australian landscape brought about by development and agriculture post-settlement, there are comparatively few areas in the country which are so rich and diverse in native plants and wildlife. The areas that are left are precious and in varying conditions, but the general trend is one of decline. The ongoing pressure on these habitats due to changes in climate and landscape as a result of human activity continue to threaten their condition with further degradation. If too degraded, they cannot continue to function and provide the services that natural systems by default do – such as air and water filtration, soil fertility and pollination of our crops and plants. All life depends upon these services that natural systems provide. It is possible to halt and reverse the decline of biodiversity in the Mount Lofty Ranges, but it requires strategic and active management. The Council recognises that as a manager of public lands containing good quality remnant habitat in the region, there is great opportunity to play a pivotal role in strategically managing these open spaces to halt and reverse the decline. To this end, the Adelaide Hills Council Strategic Management Plan identified the development of this Biodiversity Strategy (the Strategy) as a priority action (AHC, 2010), to guide how Council manages land under its care and control in order to achieve regional biodiversity outcomes. Accordingly, local community conservation groups, Council staff, elected members, industry professionals, government and non-government agencies were engaged to consultatively develop this Strategy. Through engaging with these groups, the Strategy consultation process developed a set of meaningful and coordinated actions based on local knowledge and capacity, the outcomes of which will be monitored both qualitatively and quantitatively. The actions identified were prioritised using assessment criteria and a number of high priority actions were identified to be completed or commenced within the first year of implementation. Priority actions include: Assess condition of council reserves and prioritise action plans for sites of highest value Identify and map areas which form linkages to connect and expand habitat within the district to inform decision making and policy Develop a Woody Weed Control program in Asset Protection Zones within areas of Conservation Value to reduce fuel load while improving habitat quality Develop best practice bushfire management procedures for Council staff and contractors in sites with remnant or listed vegetation Review the Council Roadside Vegetation Management Plan Review and map blue marker sites to determine condition and prioritise weed treatment Adelaide Hills Council Biodiversity Strategy 2013 iii Support volunteers conducting weed control in sites of conservation significance Seek input from local community in biodiversity and habitat
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