Our business, what we do and with whom.
Natural Resource Management –‘NRM'
- encompasses more than conserving the environment, it involves us
all “valuing our natural capital” in the way
we live and work with our environment.
We approach
‘NRM’ from a catchment-wide perspective, encouraging
individuals, community groups and government agencies to work
together for outomes which improve and sustain our natural
and resource use environments.
We manage the region’s natural resources and biodiversity with our community - engaging them
in ways which enable them to apply sustainable and adaptive
approaches to managing these resources.
Groups working within each
of our 3 catchments, include Landcare, tree planting,
bird observing, fisher, marine conservation, industry best
practice and waterways monitoring groups, as well as
Indigenous people and many government agencies. These people work
cooperatively to undertake environmental restoration,
protection and research work to deliver better understanding
of the region's natural resources to others. Understanding gives us
strategies to ensure we will have these natural resources for many
years to come.
The Natural Heritage Trust (NHT)
and National Landcare Programs (NLP) are
cooperatively implemented by the Australian, State and Territory
Governments. Australia–wide, this program is driven by each
of its 56 region’s single,
regional–scale management plans. Each plan is designed
to manage of a diversity of priority natural resources in different
environments around Australia -each developed by local
communities, supported by government and the best available science
- to improve natural resources on a regional scale.
For more information about the
Australian Government's Natural Resource Management activities go
to: http://www.nrm.gov.au/
In summary, we
- Share knowledge through dialogue with the
community - from whom we gain knowledge.
- Target planning to direct the management
of natural resource issues throughout the region.
- Provide incentives to land managers to
help them make positive changes which protect our natural
assets.
- Enable environmental monitoring, by providing
knowledge, skills training and extension support to the
community.
