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Victoria's Biodiversity Strategy

Victoria's Biodiversity Strategy fulfills commitments in the national Strategy for the Conservation of Biodiversity and requirements under Victoria's Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1998.

The strategy is being renewed in 2008-10, as announced in the government's Sustainability Action Statement (2006).

Contents

Victoria's Biodiversity Strategy (1997) is made up of three documents - Our Living Wealth, Sustaining our Living Wealth and Directions in Management - as well as the following introductory sections:

Cover: Our Living Wealth

Victoria’s Biodiversity - Our Living Wealth

It is a colourful picture of Victoria’s terrestrial and marine ecosystems and their geology, flora and fauna. Our living wealth touches on the major risks to communities and species within these ecosystems.
Cover: Sustaining our living wealth

Victoria’s Biodiversity - Sustaining Our Living Wealth

Describes the legal, economic and social framework for us to conserve biodiversity. Sustaining our living wealth outlines the challenges and ways forward and highlights ways to integrate biodiversity conservation into our actions, thinking and way of life.
Cover: Directions in management

Victoria’s Biodiversity - Directions in Management

Sets out the objectives of the strategy and management approaches to be used. Directions in management focuses on the living assets and the biodiversity condition in all of Victoria’s bioregions and also charts the biodiversity assets and challenges that characterise our landscapes.
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