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Draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2015 Priorities

To maximise outcomes for biodiversity over such a large area like NSW, decisions on where to invest need to be made carefully. In response to this, the NSW Government developed a set of draft Priority Areas for investment in native vegetation management as part of the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2015. State scale priorities for investment are presented in the Priority Areas Map in Part A of the draft Strategy. The draft Strategy divides the ecosystems of NSW based on 15 formations described by Keith (2004), and all have been mapped with the exception of ‘Arid Acacia Shrublands’, ‘Arid Chenopod Shrublands’, ‘Rivers’, ‘Marine Waters’, ‘Estuaries and Coastal Lakes’ and ‘Freshwater Wetlands’. Part B of the draft Strategy presents Priority Areas for each in a series of 15 ‘ecosystem profiles’. The prioritisation was undertaken using the Biodiversity Forecasting Toolkit (BFT) (NSW DEC 2006), a decision-support system developed by NSW DEC for evaluating biodiversity outcomes and for mapping biodiversity management priorities. Technical detail to support this statement can be obtained from:

DECCW (2010) Deriving Priority Areas for Investment: A Technical Report to accompany the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy

This statement describes the data and processes used to produce two interim products to assist the public exhibition of the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy (2010-15):

1) the derivation of proposed State scale priorities for investment in native vegetation management in NSW; and

2) description of those priorities according to the Keith (2010) vegetation classification.

The proposed State scale priorities are described in detail in the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2015. It had been planned that the proposed priorities were subject to comment during public exhibition, and a final version was to follow subject to review of comments received on the draft Strategy. The Strategy was never finalised. The Priority Areas were developed to inform the former CMAs (now LLS) Catchment Action Plans that identified priorities for NRM. LLS don’t do these Plans anymore. Several meetings were held with NPWS on how they could use the priorities to inform investment in rehab/reveg in NPWS reserves and how it related to an analysis that Andrew Steed had done.

This spatial data is in the format of Esri GRID in Lamberts Conic Conformal projection.

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Language English
Alternative Title Priorities for Investment in Native Vegetation Management
Edition 01/01/2015
Purpose The proposed priorities are intended to be used by Catchment Management Authorities and other natural resource managers to identify landscapes with highest priority for investment to manage native vegetation where greatest biodiversity benefit can be obtained by improving condition. The mapping is intended to be viewed at 1:250,000 scale, and is not designed to be accurate beyond 100-1,000 m. For example, the mapping would require on ground validation and interpretation before it could be applied at property scales.
Frequency of change As needed
Keywords ECOLOGY,VEGETATION
Metadata Date 2010-08-16
Date of Asset Creation 2010-08-16
Date of Asset Publication 2010-10-29
Date of Next Update 2010-10-29
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 500000
Geospatial Topic Biota
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Temporal Coverage From 2006-01-01 - 2010-08-16
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2010"