The Fitz-Stirling Functional Landscape Plan in Action – A CAP story

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1a) Project Team - I’m just the story-teller

• Partners: – The Nature Conservancy– Bush Heritage Australia– Gondwana Link Ltd– Fitzgerald River Biosphere Group– South Coast NRM (early on)

• Corporate Donors– Shell– Lottery West– WesFarmers– Mirabella– Others….

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1b) Conceptualize – Project Scope – Multiple scales

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Fitz-Stirling: area of main focus is within 10 kilometres of a line between Ellen Peak to Wangup Well.

70 km link

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Conservation Targets

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1. Proteaceous Rich Communities

2. Mallet And Moort Woodlands

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3. Flat-topped Yate (Or Swamp Yate)Woodlands

4. Tammar And Black-gloved Wallabies

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5. Creeks

6. Freshwater Systems

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The sustainability imperative

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Fitz-Stirling Objectives*

1. Restore 16,000 ha of native vegetation….

2. Protect and enhance 60,000 ha of remnant vegetation…

3. Improve the condition of 60% of creeks within 3 catchments

4. Increase the population of wallabies by 30%

To be achieved by 2013-2017

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*From The Fitz-Stirling Functional Landscape Plan V 2.0

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2a) Fitz-Stirling Strategies*

1. Land acquisition

2. Ecological restoration

3. Long-term ecological management

4. Native plant-based enterprises

5. Noongar Cultural Corridor (reconnecting communities)

6. Bush University

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*Greening Australia’s priorities

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2b. Measures – Biodiversity, creek health and livelihoods

• Outcomes monitoring conducted by Bush Heritage Australia– Birds– Reptiles– Small mammals– Creek condition (baseline)

• Greening Australia– Revegetation success

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3. Implement & Monitor – Indicators of Success – THE MAP

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Property acquisitions through time

• Past 7 or so years • Closing the landscape gap! • Compiled by Amanda Keesing, Gondwana Link Ltd

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The latest acquisition

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‘Monjebup North’- Bush Heritage Australia

(April 2010)

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Implement & Monitor - Restoration Successes

Aril 2010

• 1600 ha revegetated (objective 10% completed)• 996 ha of this reveg on private farms

(Shell Reconnections Project)

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Reconnecting Communities: Noongar Cultural Corridor– Education– Youth rehabilitation – Noongar Elder Eugene Eades – Award winner

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Implement & Monitor

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Celebrating on-country

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Multiple generations reconnecting to country & culture

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4. Adapt & Improve; from the beginning!

Have a good look around….

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3.5m

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Traditional plantings

Remnant Vegetation Benchmark

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Too dense, bare understory

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3.5m

1.4m 1.4m 1.4m 1.4m

Learn and adapt: GreatPlains5 ‘habitat seeder’; 7m pass; ~40ha/day

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Learn and adapt

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Monitoring – a structured way of learning

In collaboration with UWA

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Monitoring: 42 plots (20 x 14m) across 6 vegetation associations• 50 species identified to date

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4. Adapt and Improve

Light Yate

Upland Yate

Sandy Gravels

Sandy Yate

Duplex

Gully

Pallid Clay

Overall mean

0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500

Mean stems/ha

Mean stems/ha

Much improved !

Traditional planting

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Courage to learn and improve

‘Lifting the Bar’

‘Old school’

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Still much to learn and improve…

Peniup, April 2010

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5) Capture and Share learnings – closing the loop

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1) Conservation takes time

PlanningPilot

Implementation

Time

Impact

Partner capacity

20 years

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Great leadership needs a great team

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~2005

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Adaptation should drive conception

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“Past efforts, necessary but insufficient”

- Robert Lambeck

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1. Objectives & Strategies

2. Inputs (actions)

3. Outputs(consequences)

4. Outcomes(consequences)

Monitoring starts at the beginning

Measured and reported at 4 scales: 1. National2. State/Territory3. Landscape4. Site/project

Start here!!

*GA Board May ‘09

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TNC Audit – Bring it ON!!

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‘Love tough love’

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CAP/Open Standards as glue

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FLP 3.0• GA• BHA• FBG• TNC• GLink Ltd

August 2010

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The Fitz-Stirling – our CAP/OS story

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To be continued....!