Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan
Public comments
The Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan was released on 8 March 2012, after being prepared by an independent National Wildlife Corridors Plan Advisory Group chaired by the Hon Bob Debus, and in consultation with the Australian Government.
In addition to seeking public submissions the Advisory Group and government undertook targeted consultations with stakeholders throughout March and April 2012. The period for written public submissions closed on 20 April 2012.
The Advisory Group will be taking submissions into consideration as they finalise the Draft Plan for the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
The Advisory Group would like to thank all those who provided submissions.
Submissions received
- Associate Professor Geoff Wescott (Word - 18 KB)
- Adelaide & Mount Loft Ranges NRM Board (PDF - 559 KB)
- Anne Whittingham (Word - 32 KB)
- Arid Lands Environment Centre (Word - 30 KB)
- Arrow Energy Pty Ltd (PDF - 256KB)
- Arundathi Indika Walgama (Word - 70 KB)
- Atlas of Living Australia (PDF - 74 KB)
- Australian Forest Products Association (PDF - 268 KB)
- Australian Network of Environmental Defender's Offices Inc. (Word - 83 KB)
- Australian Wildlife Protection Council (Word - 2 MB)
- Avril Barrett (Word - 32 KB)
- Barunglan Landcare Association (Word - 31 KB)
- Beth Schultz (Word - 22 KB)
- BirdLife Australia (Word - 216 KB)
- Brendan Shoebridge (Word - 32 KB)
- Bulltale Creek Trust (Word - 21 KB)
- Byrrill Creek Land Care Group (PDF - 735 KB)
- Cairns and Far North Environment Centre (PDF - 666 KB)
- Caldera Environment Centre (Word - 775 KB)
- Carolyn Rifello (Word - 33 KB)
- Central Victorian Biolinks Project (Word - 21 KB)
- Cheryl Forrester (Word - 31 KB)
- Community Environment Network (Word - 31 KB)
- Conservation Land Trusts Alliance (Word - 19 KB)
- Conservation of North Ocean Shores Inc. (Word - 15 KB)
- Conservation Volunteers Australia (Word - 19 KB)
- CSIRO (PDF - 161 KB)
- Cumberland Conservation Network (Word - 132KB)
- Darwin City Council (PDF - 253 KB)
- Dave Whitelaw (Word - 31 KB)
- David Francis (Word - 35 KB)
- David Pannell and Geoff Park (PDF - 88 KB)
- Dawn Walker (Word - 32 KB)
- Delicia Bone (Word - 32 KB)
- Denis Starrs (Word - 16 KB)
- Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Kangaroo Island (Word - 31 KB)
- Department of Primary Industries Farm Forestry (Word - 31 KB)
- Desert Channels Group (Word - 30 KB)
- Diana Palmer (Word - 13 KB)
- Dr Lea M. Scherl Word - 31 KB)
- Dudley Leggett (Word - 32 KB)
- Emeritus Professor Ben Boer (PDF - 280 KB)
- Environment Tasmania (Word - 80 KB)
- Environmental Defenders Office of Northern Queensland Inc. (PDF - 520 KB)
- Faye Hill (Word - 33 KB)
- Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University (PDF - 776 KB)
- Forestry SA (PDF - 539 KB)
- Friends of Leadbeater's Possum Inc. (PDF - 244 KB)
- Friends of the Koala Inc. (Word - 90 KB)
- Gabrielle Schenk (Word - 34 KB)
- Gali Gali Perkins (Word - 14 KB)
- Gippsland Plains Conservation Management Network (PDF - 251 KB)
- Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority (PDF - 1.7 MB)
- Gondwana Link (Word - 62 KB)
- Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority (Word - 892 KB)
- Graeme Worboys (Word - 40 KB)
- Graeme Worboys (Word - 37 KB)
- Greening Australia (PDF - 98 KB)
- Horse SA (Word - 37 KB)
- Humane Society International (PDF - 174 KB)
- Ian Boyle (Word - 30 KB)
- Ian Pulsford (PDF - 164 KB)
- Inland Rivers Network Inc. (PDF - 305 KB)
- International Union for the Conservation of Nature - World Comission on Protected Areas (PDF - 304 KB)
- Invasive Species Council (PDF - 915 KB)
- IUCN CEESP-Oceania (Word - 31 KB)
- IUCN World Comission on Protected Areas (PDF - 307 KB)
- John Hunter (Word - 30 KB)
- Kimberley Land Council (PDF - 30 KB)
- Kingston Bicycle Users Group (PDF - 183 KB)
- Landcare Australia Ltd (PDF - 327 KB)
- Local Government Association of Queensland (Word - 299 KB)
- Lower Murray Darling Catchment Management Authority (Word - 32 KB)
- Mallee Catchment Management Authority (PDF - 1.2 MB)
- Mark Feltrin (Word - 70 KB)
- Martin Munz (Word - 30 KB)
- Mary Regts (Word - 32 KB)
- Megan Varker (Word - 16 KB)
- Minerals Council of Autralia (PDF - 115 KB)
- Miranda Mills (Word - 32 KB)
- Mountains2Coast Reserves (PDF - 296 KB)
- Murray Catchment Management Authority (PDF - 1 MB)
- Murray Irrigation (PDF - 233 KB)
- National Farmers' Federation (PDF - 367 KB)
- National Parks Assocation of NSW and Nature Conservation Council of NSW (Word - 206 KB)
- National Parks Association of Queensland (Word - 53 KB)
- National Trust of South Australia (PDF - 1.5 MB)
- Natural Resources Management Council of South Australia (PDF - 124 KB)
- Nature Conservation Society of South Australia (Word - 47 KB)
- Nature Foundation SA (PDF - 181 KB)
- Nature Reserves Preservation Group Inc (Word - 111 KB)
- Nelson Coastcare Inc (Word - 15 KB)
- Nillumbik Shire (PDF - 189 KB)
- Nina Earl (Word - 41 KB)
- Noosa Biosphere (Word - 45 KB)
- North East Bioregional Network (PDF - 88 KB)
- North East Catchment Management Authority (PDF - 214 KB)
- Northern Gulf Resource Management Group (Word - 28 KB)
- Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (Word - 33 KB)
- Northern Rivers Guardians Inc. (Word - 664 KB)
- Northern Territory Department of Natural Resources, Environment the Arts and Sport (PDF - 159 KB)
- NSW Aboriginal Land Council (PDF - 1.6 MB)
- NSW Farmers Association (PDF - 112 KB)
- NSW Forest Products Association (PDF - 779 KB)
- Office of Communities - Aboriginal Affairs (PDF - 278 KB)
- Office of Environment and Heritage NSW (Word - 29 KB)
- Peel Harvey Catchment Council (Word - 64 KB)
- Peta Rakela (PDF - 446 KB)
- Peter Symons (PDF - 986 KB)
- Private citizen (Word - 30 KB)
- Private citizen, Ocean Shores NSW (Word - 31 KB)
- Rainer Glasker (Word - 32 KB)
- Ray Thorpe (Word - 32 KB)
- Ricegrowers' Association of Australia Inc. (PDF - 371 KB)
- Rob Youl (Word - 199 KB)
- Robin Crawford (Word - 11 KB)
- Round the Bend Conservation Co-operative Ltd (PDF - 256 KB)
- Royal Zoological Society of South Australia Inc. (Word - 957 KB)
- RSPCA (Word - 1.1 MB)
- Scott Sledge (Word - 662 KB)
- SEQ Catchments Ltd (Word - 24 KB)
- South Australian Department of Environment and Natural Resources (PDF - 544 KB)
- South Australian Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Eyre Penninsula Natural Resource Management (PDF - 79 KB)
- South Australian Farmers Federation (PDF - 234 KB)
- South Australian NRM Alliance (PDF - 182 KB)
- South West Catchments Council (PDF - 922 KB)
- Southern Riverina Irrigators (Word - 30 KB)
- Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (Word - 224 KB)
- Statewide Advisory Group for Conservation Management Networks (Word - 93 KB)
- Sue Klein and Roger Graf (Word - 32 KB)
- Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association (PDF - 234 KB)
- Tasmanian Government Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources (PDF - 247 KB)
- Tasmanian Land Conservancy (Word - 711 KB)
- Tasmanian Minerals Council Ltd (Word - 68 KB)
- Tasmanian Regional NRM (PDF - 247 KB)
- Terrain NRM (PDF - 639 KB)
- The Earth Welfare Foundation (PDF - 112 KB)
- The Environment Institute, The University of Adelaide (PDF - 380 KB)
- The Grass Routes Initiative (PDF - 277 KB)
- The Great Eastern Ranges (PDF - 1.7 MB)
- The Nature Conservancy (PDF - 125 KB)
- The Wilderness Society (PDF - 75 KB)
- Threatened Species Scientific Committee (WordF - 36 KB)
- Tourism and Transport Forum (PDF - 327 KB)
- Trust for Nature (Word - 3.5 MB)
- Urban Bushland Council WA Inc. (Word - 28 KB)
- Urban Development Institute of Australia (Word - 225 KB)
- Victoria Naturally Alliance (PDF - 195 KB)
- Virginia Reid (Word - 33 KB)
- Wakool Landholders Association (Word - 17 KB)
- Wakool Shire Council (PDF - 885 KB)
- Wallan Environment Group (PDF - 56 KB)
- West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (PDF - 153 KB)
- Western Australian Farmers Federation (PDF - 78 KB)
- Western Australian Government (PDF - 292 KB)
- Western Australian Local Government Association (PDF - 1.6 MB)
- Western Catchment Management Authority (Word - 258 KB)
- Western Murray Land Improvement Group Inc. (Word - 732 KB)
- Wet Tropics Management Authority (Word - 509 KB)
- Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (Word - 217 KB)
- WWF-Australia (PDF - 417 KB)
- Yarkuwa Indigenous Knowledge Centre Aboriginal Corporation (PDF - 457 KB)
Copyright
Responsibility for copyright in submissions resides with the author(s), not with the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities.
Confidentiality
Some submissions were supplied in confidence and have not been posted. If you have concerns about published material, please email wildlife.corridors@environment.gov.au
Formats and accessibility
The department has made every effort to ensure submissions provided are as accessible as possible. If you have difficulty accessing the information provided and need further assistance, please email wildlife.corridors@environment.gov.au
Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan
The Draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan has been developed by the National Wildlife Corridors Plan Advisory Group for consideration by the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. The Draft Plan recognises that connectivity is a fundamental requirement of healthy, productive landscapes. It lays the foundation for a new, collaborative, whole-of-landscape approach to biodiversity conservation that is based on voluntary cooperation and the existing efforts of communities, landholders, governments and industry.
Further information on wildlife corridors
Wildlife corridor research reports
The following reports were prepared for the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities by CSIRO.
- A compendium of existing and planned Australian wildlife corridor projects and initiatives, and case study analysis of operational experience
- An overview of key socio-economic factors, principles and guidelines in wildlife "corridor" planning and implementation
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