Biodiversity Conservation Lands for the Far North Coast Regional Strategy

The Biodiversity Conservation Lands dataset has been compiled for the Far North Coastand interpreted as presenting planning constraints at three scales;\r\n\r\n* State: Areas identified as of state significance in recognition of a related state or federal conservation policy or program;\r\n* Regional : Areas identified as of regional significance generally in recognition of a related state policy or program or as providing buffers to state significant lands;\r\n* Local : Areas recognised through local conservation zoning and including all remnant vegetation.\r\n\r\nPrinciples for deriving conservation constraints:\r\n\r\n1. A twenty five-year planning horizon was adopted for identifying Biodiversity Conservation Lands and opportunities.;\r\n2. State, regional and local significance classes for conservation constraints were adopted and spatially delineated.\r\n3. Biodiversity features are presented as constraints with limited or no transferability. Irreplaceability of significant features is generally low and in situ conservation is generally required. The level of irreplaceability for each feature is noted in the metadata proformas.\r\n4. Biodiversity Conservation Lands will generally be identified across the landscape regardless of current tenure or zoning. Whilst back-zoning of existing development zones is not envisaged, protection of high conservation value \r\n\r\nThe Biodiversity Conservation Lands is complete for all Local Government Areas along the coast from Tweed Heads to Gosford. This metadata statement deals with that portion of the data covering the Local Government Areas of Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, Kyogle and Richmond Valley.\r\n\r\nThere are two BioConLands datasets for each Regional Strategy area - a simplified one containing only State, Regional and Local categories in the attribute table and a larger, more complex version with "detailed" information on the components that went into the datasets.\r\n\r\n__Note:__ Certain boundaries within these datasets, eg. NPWS and State Forest Estate, are only current to 2007.

本生物多样性保护用地（Biodiversity Conservation Lands）数据集专为远北海岸编制，其可被解读为涵盖三类尺度下的规划约束条件：
* 州级（State）：因相关州级或联邦保护政策/计划而被认定具有州级重要性的区域；
* 区域级（Regional）：通常因相关州级政策/计划，或作为州级重要区域的缓冲地带而被认定具有区域级重要性的区域；
* 地方级（Local）：通过地方保护区划认定的区域，包含所有残存植被。

保护约束条件的生成原则：
1. 在识别生物多样性保护用地及保护机遇时，采用了25年的规划时限；
2. 确立了保护约束条件的州级、区域级与地方级重要性分级，并完成了空间划定；
3. 生物多样性要素以约束条件形式呈现，其可转移性有限或完全不可转移。重要要素的不可替代性通常较低，且通常需实施原位保护。各要素的不可替代等级将在元数据格式表中予以标注；
4. 无论当前土地权属或区划如何，通常都将在全域范围内识别生物多样性保护用地。尽管未设想对现有开发区进行反向区划调整，但对高保护价值区域的保护

本生物多样性保护用地数据集已覆盖从特威德角（Tweed Heads）至戈斯福德（Gosford）沿岸的所有地方政府辖区。本次元数据说明仅针对其中涵盖特威德、拜伦、巴利纳、利斯莫尔、凯奥格尔及里士满谷地方政府辖区的数据子集。

每个区域战略区域均配套两套BioConLands数据集：其一为简化版，属性表中仅包含州级、区域级及地方级三类；其二为体量更大、结构更复杂的版本，包含数据集构成要素的“详细”信息。

**注：** 本数据集内部分边界（如国家公园与野生动物服务局（NPWS）辖区及州立森林地产）的现势性仅截至2007年。