REVISED POLICY GUIDELINES- PRIVATE LAND CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIPS · Policy Guideline - Private Land Conservation Partnerships Final with attachments

POLICY GUIDELINE – Private Land Conservation Partnerships


“Biodiversity Corridors” are broad tracts of vegetated, cleared and partly cleared land, extending
across the Noosa landscape that consolidate or connect core habitat, and can occur across private
and/or public land.
“Conservation Land Guideline” is a mapping methodology to identify environmentally significant
land for potential acquisition or for private land conservation outcomes.
“Core Protected Areas” are large biodiverse areas that consist collectively of public land already
under conservation protection such as National Park, Bushland Reserves and Nature Refuges.
“Environment” refers to the use of the word to describe the natural (not man-made) environment
of the region and includes the natural ecological systems of air, water, soil and associated species
of flora and fauna.
“Environment Levy” refers to a levy raised by Council (in accordance with section 94 of the
Queensland Local Government Act 2009), on all rateable properties within its jurisdiction, in order
to meet the objectives in this policy.

RELEVANT LEGISLATION
Noosa Council Environment Levy Policy 2018
Qld Environmental Offsets Policy 2022
Qld Land Act 1994
Qld Nature Conservation Act 1992
Qld Planning Act 2016
Qld Vegetation Management Act 1999

Version control:
 Version       Reason/ Trigger                    Change (Y/N)   Endorsed/ Reviewed by   Date

 1.0           Create new                                        Council                 20/09/2018

 2.0           Revision                           Y              Council                 16/01/2020

 3.0           Revision




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