Management

strategies and policies

for achieving and
maintaining healthy
and sustainable
outdoor
environments that
may be adopted by
public and private
land managers.

Public land management

Who is the main

public land
manager in
Victoria??

Public land management

What do Park Rangers do?
- Build and maintain good working relationships with farmers
and landholders, tourism providers and local communities
- Maintain and modify tracks and signs
- Carry out surveys of heavily visited sites and damaged areas
- Provide guided walks and events, give talks and educational
activities for schools and the public
- Respond to requests for information and advice from
students, visitors, the media and tourism industry
- Assist emergency services with local knowledge and
expertise
- Provide training for volunteers and new staff
- Respond to out of hours calls to assist the public

Public land management

Land management approaches can include some of the
following:
- Creating and maintaining conservation reserves, such as national parks
and wildlife sanctuaries
- Developing wildlife corridors between pockets of remnant vegetation
- Translocation or reintroduction of species into areas where they used to
occur
- Ecotourism
- Contemporary indigenous land management
Some general management practices may include:
- regulate behavior and restrict access, duration, equipment
- modify the setting of area
- concentrate use or disperse use of certain areas
- modify management practice and presence: install signage, raise staff
profile, increase protected areas, stop land clearing and grazing in
marginal and sensitive lands, control introduced species, control impact
of genetically modified organisms, manage fire regimes, manage
industrial pollution, monitor climate change.

Public land management

Recreation
- Maintain and develop visitor facilities such as picnic areas, camping areas and
toilets
- Create and maintain trails for hikers, mountain bike riders, four-wheel driving
etc
- Respond to emergency situations such as Search and Rescue
- Management and development of staff, volunteers, contractors & work
experience students
- Delivery of interpretation and education services including guided tours,
demonstrations and talks
- Planning, implementation and management of projects, programs and contracts
Things to do/know for the exam:
Be able to describe and evaluate management strategies and practices that
youve seen used in environments youve visited

What are they?

How are they used?
Are they effective or not?

Strategies for the management

of public land in Victoria
Overview
Maintain and modify tracks and signs
Carry out surveys of heavily visited sites and
damaged areas
Provide guided walks and events, give talks and
educational activities for schools and the public
Respond to requests for information and advice
from students, visitors, the media and tourism
industry
Assist emergency services with local knowledge
and expertise

Strategies for the management

of public land in Victoria
Create and maintain conservation reserves
Develop wildlife corridors between pockets of
remnant vegetation
Reintroduction of species into areas where
they used to occur
Regulate behaviour and restrict access,
duration, equipment etc.
Manage fire regimes
Control introduced species

Park management plan task

Complete learning activity for a personally
selected National Park (page 302-303)

Private land management

What is the difference between public and

private land ownership?

As two thirds of Victoria is privately owned,

much of the flora and fauna may not be getting
the necessary protection despite the need for
their services such as filtrating water

Private land management..

Trust for Nature quick introduction
Trust for Nature is a not-for-profit organisation that
works to protect native plants and wildlife in
cooperation with private landowners.
The Trust was established under the Victorian
Conservation Trust Act 1972 to enable people to
contribute to nature conservation by donating
land or money.
Trust for Nature is now one of Victorias primary
land conservation organisations, with several tools
to help people protect biodiversity on private land.
In 1978, Trust for Nature developed conservation
covenants as a way to protect native plants and
wildlife on private land.

Private land management:

Trust for Nature

Trust for Nature's vision for the future is:

"There will be a shared expectation and
responsibility among communities, landowners
and governments that significant natural areas
on privately owned land should be conserved,
just as national and state parks are protected."

Private land management:

Trust for Nature
How they work
Conservation covenants
Stewardship
Revolving fund
Trust for Nature properties/management
Read over page 305 of your text and summarise
the above three components of the program..

Private land management:

Trust for Nature
Conservation covenants - providing permanent
protection
Trust for Nature developed its Conservation Covenant
Program so landowners could permanently protect
native plants and wildlife on their properties.
Conservation covenants remain one of the most
effective ways to protect native plants and wildlife on
private land. The covenant remains attached to the title
of a property, even if it is sold.
Conservation covenants are backed by State legislation
through the Victorian Conservation Trust Act 1972. (They
currently have more than 1,200 conservation covenants)
The agreement is voluntary and negotiated between
Trust for Nature and each individual landholder.
Each conservation covenant is then considered by Trust
for Nature's Board of Trustees before being sent to the
Victorian Environment Minister for approval.

Private land management:

Trust for Nature
They have now protected more than 47,000 hectares
through over 1,115 perpetual conservation covenants.
The Trust has also purchased and preserved more than
55 properties across Victoria through its Revolving Fund,
as well as currently owning and managing 46 properties
that cover over 36,000 hectares of Victoria.

Mount Elephant A Trust for Nature property on

the Victorian Volcanic Plains, Corangamite
Region.

Private land management:

Trust for Nature
Stewardship - the support program
Once a property has had a covenant placed on it,
Trust for Nature will offer a Stewardship program.
Through the Stewardship Program, Trust for
Nature offer conservation management advice
and property maintenance tips to each
landowner, helping covenanters maintain and
improve the health of native plants and wildlife
on their property.
Trust for Nature will also offer landowners
technical advice, information about landmanagement incentives available to landowners,
and practical assistance with land management
and habitat/species monitoring.

Private land management:

Trust for Nature
Revolving Fund - a cycle of success
The objective of Trust for Nature's Revolving Fund is to use
the real estate market to achieve conservation outcomes.
Funds provided through donations and by the Australian
Government are used to purchase environmentally
significant land, which they then on-sell with a conservation
covenant attached.
The Revolving Fund is a can target the protection of native
vegetation in areas where other methods are less effective,
and introduce new participants to conservation through
land protection.
All money generated through the sale of the properties is
wholly returned to the Fund to replenish its reserves and
enable future purchases. In this way the fund revolves in
perpetuity.
(They have sold 47 properties through the Revolving Fund
so far, protecting 5,735 hectares of Victorian bush land so
far).

Private land management:

Trust for Nature
Land Acquisition - buying back the bush
(Trust for nature properties)
To protect native plants and wildlife, Trust for
Nature buys and maintains properties with
high conservation value.
This enables both the regeneration of
damaged habitats and their future protection.
We also use some of these properties to
demonstrate private land conservation
practices.

Neds Corner Trust for Nature

property acquisition
Neds Corner video 3min 19sec

Australias Biodiversity
Conservation Strategy 20102013 (Australia)
Your job is to create the same informative
presentation and quiz that you can share with
your classmates on Australias Biodiversity
Conservation Strategy 2010-2030 (Australia).
This information needs to be sort from both the
text and the following website: http://
www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/publicati
ons/australias-biodiversity-conservation-stra
tegy-summary
Within it it needs to include:
What the framework is
What strategy A,B and C are.
Example of it in practice (casestudies)