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Appendix 2: Further Sources of Information

Legislation
Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994
Coastal Management Act 1995
Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987
Crown Lands (Reserves) Act 1978
Environmental Protection Act 1970
Fisheries Act 1995
Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988
Forests (Timber Harvesting) Act 1958
Heritage Act 1995
Heritage Rivers Act 1992
National Parks Act 1975
Planning and Environment (Planning Schemes) Act 1996
Water Act 1989
Wildlife Act 1975

Strategies, Management Plans and Reports
Commonwealth of Australia (1996). The National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia’s Biological Diversity.
DEST. Available at http://www.erin.gov.au/net/biostrat.html

Commonwealth of Australia (1997). Nationally Agreed Criteria for the Establishment of a Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative Reserve System for Forests in Australia. A report by the Joint ANZECC/MCFFA National Forest Policy statement Implementation Sub-committee.
Available at http://www.environment.gov.au/land/forests/documents/janis/contents.html

CSIRO (1996). Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study: Final Report. CSIRO: Canberra.

Government of Victoria (1997). Victoria’s Biodiversity – Our Living Wealth. NRE

Government of Victoria (1997). Victoria’s Biodiversity – Sustaining Our Living Wealth. NRE

Government of Victoria (1997). Victorian Coastal Strategy. NRE

Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA). Currently in draft form.
Further details are available at http://www.biodiversity.environment.gov.au/protecte/nrs/marine.htm

NRE. Forest Management Plans - East Gippsland, Otways, Midlands, Central Highlands NRE.

Available at http://exwb01.nre.vic.gov.au/plntanml/native/actstats/actstats.htm

Flora and Fauna Guarantee Action Statements No. 1-74.
Available at http://exwb01.nre.vic.gov.au/plntanml/native/actstats/actstats.htm

Parks Victoria. Park Management Plans.
Contact NRE Information Centre (03) 9637 8080

Regional Catchment Strategies. There are nine strategies.
Key elements are available at http://exwb01.nre.vic.gov.au/catchmnt/partner/index.htm

Regional Forest Agreement - East Gippsland.
Available at http://www.rfa.gov.au/cra/vic/eastgipp/rfa_kits/rfa_sign.html

Thackway, R. and Cresswell, I.D. (Eds) 1995. An Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia: A framework for setting priorities in the National Reserves System Cooperative Program. Australian Nature Conservation Agency: Canberra.

Websites

Australian Conservation Foundation
http://www.peg.apc.org/~acfenv

Banksia Environmental Foundation
http://www.banksia-foundation.com.au

Birds Australia
http://yarra.vicnet.net.au/~birdsaus/

Bird Observers Club of Australia
http://www.anbg.gov.au/esu/boca.html

Birds on farms
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~raou/projects/bof.html#top

Creswick Landcare Centre
http://users.netconnect.com.au/~gpark

Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE)
http://exwb01.nre.vic.gov.au

Department of Primary Industries and Energy Network (PIENet)
http://www.dpie.gov.au/dpie/home.html

Earthwatch
http://www.earthwatch.org/australia.html

Environment Australia Online
http://kaos.erin.gov.au:80/erin.html

Flora and Fauna Guarantee Action Statements
http://exwb01.nre.vic.gov.au/plntanml/native/actstats/actstats.htm

Greening Australia Limited
http://www.greeningaustralia.com.au

Indigenous Flora and Fauna Association
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~iffa/welcome.htm

NRE Information Centre
http://exwb01.nre.vic.gov.au/sales/infocntr/infocntr.htm

Parks Victoria
http://www.parks.vic.gov.au

Regional Forest Agreements
http://www.erin.gov.au/land/forests/rfa/rfa.html

Society for Growing Australian Plants
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~sgap/index.html

Waterwatch Victoria
http://www.vic.waterwatch.org.au

Wetlands Ramsar Bureau
http://w3.iprolink.ch/iucnlib/themes/ramsar/index.html

Whale Information Network
http://chopper.macmedia.com.au/whales/whales3.html

Wilderness Society
http://www.peg.apc.org/~twsnat/

 

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