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Small expanding towns should have long-term natural heritage strategies. Any conservation programme or scheme to protect existing natural heritage should:
- Have clearly stated goals and objectives;
- Establish consistent designations and criteria;
- Outline monitoring requirements; and
- Be enforceable through use of legislation
- Bring natural heritage issues in to everyday decision-making.
Without these elements, the scheme will leave stakeholders, including developers uncertain of their role in preserving these areas.
Other recommendations include:
1) Look on natural heritage from a broader view, especially social and economic
2) Involve the local community at all stages
3) Attract the interest of private investors
4) Promote the natural heritage and the projects connected to it
The most effective and appropriate programmes will involve give stakeholders an active role, for example, in public-private partnerships. Sharing the responsibility for conserving natural heritage makes programmes more legitimate. It can also increase residents’ satisfaction with their local area, strengthening local identity.
Recommended Reading
PROTECTING HERITAGE PLACES KIT
Step by step guide to protect the natural and cultural heritage significance of places.
www.heritage.gov.au/protect-places/steps.htm
AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HERITAGE CHARTER
Standards and principles for the conservation of places of natural heritage significance.
www.ahc.gov.au/publications/anhc/index.htm
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