dr bill cotching, rangelands nrm, wa - developing industry partnerships towards biodiversity...
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Dr Bill Cotching, Pilbara Program Manager, Rangelands NRM, WA delivered this presentation at the Mining the Pilbara 2013 conference. The conference aims to promote the sustainable development of mineral resources and the Pilbara region. For more information, visit http://www.informa.com.au/miningthepilbaraTRANSCRIPT
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Bill Cotching
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3,000 ha
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50,000,000 ha
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> 99 % of the Pilbara is not mined
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Pilbara Corridors Connecting Country, Connecting People
Fortescue Catchment
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Landscape connectivity
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Habitat connectivity
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Cultural connectivity
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Evolutionary connectivity
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Fortescue Catchment * Port Hedland
* Newman
* Carnarvon
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Biodiversity Hot Spot
Fortescue Marsh
Hamersley refugia
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Biodiversity Hot Spot
Pilbara Olive Python
Fortescue Marsh
Orange leaf-nosed bat
Mulgara
Bilby
Hamersley refugia
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Why biodiversity ?
Nothing exists separately and permanently
in itself, but everything is part of the
interconnected flow of nature.
Intrinsic value
Cultural value
Productive value
Ecosystem services
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Millstream Chichester
NP
Karijini NP
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Mt Florance Millstream Chichester
NP
Coolawanyah
Mulga Downs
Karijini NP Roy Hill
Ethel Creek
Sylvania
Juna Downs
Hooley
Aboriginal
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• Protect and improve existing
native vegetation,
• Manage threats to biodiversity,
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Coordinated fire planning & management
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Remote sensing of fire scars and vegetation change
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Manage grazing pressure and control livestock access to areas of high biodiversity value
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Fencing to mange grazing
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Water points & grazing radii
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Ecologically Sustainable Rangeland Management Plans assist pastoralists to manage connectivity on their properties
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Targeted feral herbivore control
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Large herbivores have serious impacts on biodiversity, culturally valued heritage sites, fences & stock watering points. They foul drainage lines and waterholes.
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Prevent the spread of invasive weeds
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Citic Pacific, RioTinto, BHP Petroleum, Onslow Salt, Fortescue Metals Group,
Roy Hill Iron Ore
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Monitoring points to monitor change in vegetation extent and condition
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Cattle on river
4 Wheel Drive
access
Feral donkeys
Intense fires
Prickly weeds
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Activities to avoid carbon emissions and sequester carbon will be prioritised and implemented
Soil carbon: 25 t CO2-e ha-1 Soil carbon: 86 t CO2-e ha-1
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Yindjibarndi Cultural Heritage and Conservation Co-ordination
Rebecca, Jessica, Alison
Kingsley, Michael, Chad,
Marc MacDonald
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• Protect and improve existing
native vegetation,
• Manage threats to biodiversity,
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Pilbara Corridors Connecting Country, Connecting People
Fortescue Catchment
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‘The land does not lie;
It bears a record of what men write on it’
(WC Lowdermilk)