Warrnambool Plain Strategic Overview
This Strategic Overview for the Warrnambool Plain Bioregion - June 2002, was produced in collaboration between Y. M. Ingeme - Flora & Fauna, Southwest Regional Services, NRE; L. D. Ahern - Nature Scope Pty Ltd; K. Lowe - Parks, Flora & Fauna Division, NRE.
This bioregion occurs within the Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority area and the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority Area. It covers five local government areas.
For the Warrnambool Plain, the priorities are to:
- Extend the coverage of Roadside Conservation Management
- Determine and implement ecologically based fire regimes in heathland habitats as part of integrated processes outlined in the Code of Practice for Fire Management.
- Protect grassland and grassy woodland sites.
- Identify sites of biological significance in conjunction with local government and land holders and encourage appropriate use of this information in local planning schemes, including recognition of appropriate areas for subdivision that have minimal biodiversity impacts.
- Focus management efforts on depleted ecological vegetation classes with an emphasis on sites with the best possibilities of long-term viability and cost-effectiveness.
- Support ‘Friends Groups’ in urban areas to actively manage significant sites on a priority basis, particularly along the coast.
- Minimise the impact of pets on native fauna, particularly in the urban fringe areas, by raising awareness and by encouraging responsible pet management (NRE 1997).
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This document was last reviewed on 21/06/2011