4.2.5 At least two acts or conventions related to management and sustainability of outdoor environments, including at least two from the following:
Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (Vic)
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Commonwealth)
Ramsar Convention
What is an “act”, and what is the difference between management strategies & policies (in the last dot point) and acts?
Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (Vic)
The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (FFG Act) is the key piece of Victorian legislation for the conservation of threatened species and communities and for the management of potentially threatening processes (ie processes that threaten flora and fauna).
- List the Objectives of the FFG Act in your own words.
Under the FFG Act a FFG Strategy must be produced to set out how the flora and fauna conservation and management objectives are to be achieved. It must include proposals for guaranteeing the survival, abundance and evolutionary development in the wild of all taxa and communities of flora and fauna, ensuring the proper management of potentially threatening processes and an education program, and improving the ability of all relevant people to meet the flora and fauna conservation and management objectives.
Listing Process
Any person can make a nomination to the FFG Act to add/remove either to:
- theThreatened List, containing taxa and communities of native flora and fauna which are threatened, or
- theProcesses List, containing potentially threatening processes
The nomination is considered by the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), an expert advisory committee comprising seven scientists, who determine if the nomination satisfies FFG criteria.
The Committee make their recommendation public and seek public input then make a final report to government ministers. The Ministers decide if the nomination makes the list.
List five local species from the threatened list,
and list three relevant processes from the processes list,
So after a species or process is listed what next?
An Action Statement must be prepared by the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
Action Statements are like brief management plans. They provide some background information about the species, including its description, distribution, habitat, life history, the reasons for its decline and the threats which affect it. They also state what has been done to conserve the species and what will be done. Action Statements are designed to apply for three to five years, after which time they will be reviewed and updated.
Follow this link to a list of approved Action Plans and select an action plan relevant plan relevant to our location.
From reading the action plan highlight
Briefly highlight:
- what the animal/plant is,
- where it is found,
- it’s habitat and lifehistory/ecology
- conservation status/threats
- actions to protect it
There are also action statements for Potentially Threatening Processes
The action statement for predation by foxes ties in well with what we have studied.
Under management actions it is worth knowing Operation Deliverancewhich has become Operation Southern Ark.
Briefly highlight:
- why predation by foxes is a threatening process
- actions to eliminate and control the threat
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