Draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2015 Priorities

To maximise outcomes for biodiversity over such a large area like NSW, decisions on where to invest need to be made carefully. In response to this, the NSW Government developed a set of draft Priority Areas for investment in native vegetation management as part of the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2015. State scale priorities for investment are presented in the Priority Areas Map in Part A of the draft Strategy. The draft Strategy divides the ecosystems of NSW based on 15 formations described by Keith (2004), and all have been mapped with the exception of ‘Arid Acacia Shrublands’, ‘Arid Chenopod Shrublands’, ‘Rivers’, ‘Marine Waters’, ‘Estuaries and Coastal Lakes’ and ‘Freshwater Wetlands’. Part B of the draft Strategy presents Priority Areas for each in a series of 15 ‘ecosystem profiles’.\r\nThe prioritisation was undertaken using the Biodiversity Forecasting Toolkit (BFT) (NSW DEC 2006), a decision-support system developed by NSW DEC for evaluating biodiversity outcomes and for mapping biodiversity management priorities. Technical detail to support this statement can be obtained from:\r\n\r\nDECCW (2010) Deriving Priority Areas for Investment: A Technical Report to accompany the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy\r\n\r\nThis statement describes the data and processes used to produce two interim products to assist the public exhibition of the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy (2010-15):\r\n\r\n1)\tthe derivation of proposed State scale priorities for investment in native vegetation management in NSW; and\r\n\r\n2)\tdescription of those priorities according to the Keith (2010) vegetation classification.\r\n\r\nThe proposed State scale priorities are described in detail in the draft NSW Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2015. It had been planned that the proposed priorities were subject to comment during public exhibition, and a final version was to follow subject to review of comments received on the draft Strategy. The Strategy was never finalised. The Priority Areas were developed to inform the former CMAs (now LLS) Catchment Action Plans that identified priorities for NRM. LLS don’t do these Plans anymore. Several meetings were held with NPWS on how they could use the priorities to inform investment in rehab/reveg in NPWS reserves and how it related to an analysis that Andrew Steed had done.\r\n\r\nThis spatial data is in the format of Esri GRID in Lamberts Conic Conformal projection.为在新南威尔士州（New South Wales，简称NSW）这类广袤区域最大化生物多样性保护成效，需审慎制定投资选址决策。 为此，新南威尔士州政府依托《2010-2015年新南威尔士州生物多样性战略（草案）》，制定了一系列本土植被管理投资优先区域草案。该战略草案的A部分通过《优先区域地图》展示了州级投资优先级。 该战略草案依据基思（Keith, 2004）提出的15种植被群系型划分新南威尔士州的生态系统，除干旱金合欢灌丛（Arid Acacia Shrublands）、干旱藜科灌丛（Arid Chenopod Shrublands）、河流（Rivers）、海洋水域（Marine Waters）、河口与沿海湖泊（Estuaries and Coastal Lakes）以及淡水湿地（Freshwater Wetlands）外，其余均已完成制图。战略草案的B部分则通过15份生态系统概况（ecosystem profiles）系列文档，逐一展示各植被群系型的投资优先区域。 本次优先级划定工作依托生物多样性预测工具包（Biodiversity Forecasting Toolkit，BFT）（新南威尔士州环境与气候保护部，2006）开展，该工具是新南威尔士州环境与气候保护部开发的决策支持系统，用于评估生物多样性保护成效并绘制生物多样性管理优先级地图。本说明的技术细节可通过以下文献获取： 新南威尔士州环境、气候与水部（DECCW, 2010）：《投资优先区域划定：伴随<新南威尔士州生物多样性战略（草案）>的技术报告》 本说明用于阐述为辅助《2010-2015年新南威尔士州生物多样性战略（草案）》公众征询环节所开发的两类中期成果的数据来源与制作流程： 1) 新南威尔士州本土植被管理州级拟议投资优先级的划定方法； 2) 依据基思（Keith, 2010）植被分类体系对上述优先级的说明。 上述拟议州级投资优先级的详细说明载于《2010-2015年新南威尔士州生物多样性战略（草案）》。原计划在公众征询阶段对拟议优先级征集意见，并在梳理反馈意见后发布最终版战略，但该战略最终未完成定稿。 本次优先区域的制定初衷是为原流域管理局（Catchment Management Authorities，CMAs）（现更名为本地土地服务局（Local Land Services，LLS））的流域行动计划提供参考，该计划用于明确自然资源管理（Natural Resource Management，NRM）的优先级，但目前本地土地服务局已不再制定此类计划。团队曾与国家公园与野生动物服务局（National Parks and Wildlife Service，NPWS）多次召开会议，探讨如何利用该优先级框架指导NPWS保护区内的生境修复与植被重建（rehab/reveg）投资，以及该框架与安德鲁·斯蒂德（Andrew Steed）此前开展的相关分析的关联。 本空间数据采用Esri GRID格式，投影方式为兰伯特共形圆锥投影（Lamberts Conic Conformal projection）。