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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....!