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Priority Area 2: Responding to the challenge

Landholders adopt land management practices that maximise reef water quality improvements.

Action Deliverables
4. Identify improved land management practices to maximise reef water quality improvements.
  • Improved land management practices for high-risk catchments are identified based on best available knowledge by September 2009.
  • Improved land management practices are revised based on new information and made available to all land managers by June 2010.
  • Evaluate the actual costs and benefits of adopting improved land practices that have been identified and promoted to landholders by June 2011 and June 2013.
5. Implement improved land management practices that maximise reef water quality improvements as part of property level management systems.
  • Landholders implement improved land management practices.
  • Report annually by industry sector on uptake of improved land management practices as part of industry-led property level management systems.
  • Develop and implement a strategy to coordinate improvement of water quality management on public land in Reef catchments by December 2009.
6. Provide coordinated education and extension services to landholders to assist with uptake of land management practices that maximise reef water quality improvement.
  • Undertake education and extension services targeting water quality improvement on an ongoing basis.
  • Review extension and education services with recommendations for improvement and resourcing by December 2009.
  • Review recommendations and implement appropriate changes to the extension and education program by June 2010.
  • Develop an education and extension strategy for coordination of activities across different programs and agencies by December 2009.
7. Review existing, and develop and implement new regulations and policies for improving reef water quality and the conservation and protection of wetland and riparian areas with emphasis on property level planning and action.
  • Implement the following new or amended regulations:
    • Reef regulatory package to be developed by mid-2009 and implemented by 2010.
    • Wetlands regulation implemented in priority areas by December 2009.
  • Implementation of Land Management Agreements commences by September 2009 in high priority Reef catchments where leases trigger the Delbessie Agreement requirements.
  • Annually report on the implementation of conservation agreements and covenants in high priority Reef catchments.
  • Reef Plan objectives incorporated into existing statutory regional plans, planning policies and Coastal and Water Resource Management Plans by June 2010 and into new plans as they are developed.
8. Develop, review and implement non-regulatory policies and incentives for improving reef water quality and the conservation and protection of wetland and riparian areas.
  • Reef Rescue investment strategies are updated annually.
  • Reef Rescue outcomes and targets met by June 2013 with annual reporting on progress.
  • New cooperative agreement and NRM program for 2009–2013 agreed by September 2009.

Last reviewed 31 August 2009

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