2019-11-18 GC Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - Draft Noosa Biosecurity Plan 2020

                                                                                                       Council supports prioritised weed management on private
                                                                                                       land through education and targeted landholder extension
                                                                                                       programs.




The Noosa Environment Strategy already identifies many key Implementation Actions that are related to biosecurity matters. The Noosa Environment
Strategy was adopted by Council in June 2019.
 Noosa Environment Strategy actions related to biosecurity matters
 Activity/project                                        Council’s role                   Strategies             New initiative/ ongoing work       Year
 Undertake environmental restoration activities          Provider                         1.1, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2,    Existing program                   1,2,3
 throughout Council’s conservation reserves.                                              4.3
 Prepare Bushland Operational Assessments
 (BOAs) for Council reserves to monitor the success
 of work.
 Reduce the threat of priority biosecurity risks, such   Partner, educator, provider,     1.1, 1.3, 2.2, 4.3     Existing program                   1,2,3
 as pest plants and animals, on Council land and         regulator
 support private landholders to do the same.
 Support private landholders to achieve                  Partner, enabler, educator,      1.2                    Existing program expanded          1,2,3
 environmental outcomes on their property through        funder
 an expanded Land for Wildlife and Voluntary
 Conservation Agreement Program.
 Undertake an urban environmental education              Partner, funder                  1.2, 1.3               New initiative                     2,3
 program to improve environmental outcomes for
 urban wildlife in strategic locations.
 Scope and undertake monitoring programs on              Partner, researcher, funder      1.1, 1.3               New initiative                     2,3
 populations of 6-8 key representative threatened
 species, to mitigate against local extinctions.
 Implement propagation programs that grow                Partner, researcher, provider,   1.1, 1.2, 1.3          New initiative                     1,2
 threatened plant species and result in new              funder
 populations at appropriate, low-risk locations.


Noosa Biosecurity Plan 2020                                                                            Page 41