Central West Native Vegetation Restoration and Rehabilitation Program

The aim of this program is to engage private and public land managers to protect and restore ecosystems across the Central West Catchment. The project will focus on a range of restoration activities, prioritising works which protect and restore EPBC Act listed matters of national environmental significance.
The project will improve ecological function, resilience and diversity by supporting catchment landholders to protect, enhance and restore high conservation value (HCV) remnant vegetation. Key project outcomes include:
1) Increased landscape and ecosystem resilience to internal and external pressures such as climate change, drought and fire;
2) Increased land managers capacity to manage landscapes of national significance.
This will be achieved through the implementation of an integrated management package. Engaged landholders will be provided financial and technical support to manage total grazing pressure (TGP) and invasive species, retain and enhance habitat, establish connective corridors of indigenous species and implement MERI based monitoring activities (Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting, Improvement).
To do this successfully this project will collaborate with a range of land managers and community groups and will integrate on-ground projects with extension and capacity building activities to ensure cost effective projects of the highest standard are implemented.
This project is aligned with the goals of the Central West’s Catchment Action Plan as well as State and Australian Government targets.

本项目旨在推动私有与公有土地管理者参与保护并修复中西部流域（Central West Catchment）范围内的生态系统。本项目将聚焦多项修复行动，优先开展针对列入《环境保护与生物多样性保护法(EPBC Act)》的国家环境重要性事项的保护与修复工作。
本项目将通过支持流域土地所有者保护、优化并修复高保护价值(HCV)原生植被，提升生态系统的功能、韧性与多样性。项目核心成果如下：
1） 提升景观与生态系统应对气候变化、干旱、野火等内外部压力的韧性；
2） 增强土地管理者管理具有国家重要性景观的能力。
本项目将通过整合管理方案的落地实现上述目标。将为参与其中的土地所有者提供资金与技术支持，用于管控总放牧压力(TGP)与入侵物种、保留并优化栖息地、构建本土物种连通廊道，并开展基于监测、评估、报告与改进(MERI)的监测工作。
为顺利达成目标，本项目将与各类土地管理者及社区团体开展合作，并将实地项目与推广及能力建设活动相结合，确保以高性价比的方式落地最高标准的项目。
本项目契合中西部流域行动计划的目标，同时也符合州级与澳大利亚联邦政府的相关指标。