Meeting papers

 General                  “It is about climate change adaptation not mitigation. Mitigation refers to reduced carbon emissions.”

                          “Experiment? Use tried and tested, please don't experiment on our beautiful beaches.”



7.6.    Action area 2: Ecology
Respondents were asked to provide a written response on whether there was anything missing or overlooked in the proposed actions for ecology.

Of the 204 people who took part in the survey, 80 provided a response to this question (39.2%).

   •    60 of these responses (75%) related to the climate change action area, and 20 related to other action areas
   •    There were an additional 51 responses shared across other action areas that related to ecology

Relevant responses were analysed to identify the below key themes:




Theme                    Key comments include:
Weeds                    “Weed management plans are essential in ensuring the native coastal vegetation dominates not introduced species like the
                         glory lily, asparagus ferns and cotton trees.”

                         “Other pests species could also be included with the glory lilly eg, Singapore daisy, pepper trees, asparagus fern.”



Littering and            “Become a plastic free shire. Stop all use of plastics - including in super markets ie. nothing wrapped in plastic."
waste management
                         “Better signage and enforcement of dog free area of the beach. Enforcing laws about picking up after your dog. There is a
                         big problem with people not picking up after their pets and/or leaving bags on the beach and walkways.”




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