Hunter Region Natural Resource Management Plan 2023 - 2028
The Natural Resource Management (NRM) Plan (the Plan) provides a contemporary overview of landscape assets, threats and opportunities in the Hunter Local Land Services (Hunter LLS) region of NSW and develops a strategic approach to informing and targeting future investments in the region aligned to the Australian Government’s Regional Land Partnerships (RLP) 5-year outcomes, and Local Land Services’ (LLS) regional priorities.
This meets Hunter LLS’ obligations under the Service Level Agreement as part of the RLP Program and provides a sound basis for future NRM investment and partnership opportunities in the Hunter region.
The development of the Plan has been informed by extensive community and stakeholder consultation over the past two years, considering the aspirations of local Aboriginal community and Traditional Owner groups, private landholders, government and non-government partners, Landcare and the broader community.
This provides a comprehensive resource for all land managers in the Hunter and Mid-Coast areas to inform their decision making around the specific natural resource priorities in a sub-catchment and what some of the approaches to improving the environmental and community outcomes might be.
It’s intended the Plan will be responsive and adaptive to changes in both specific regional, state and federal priorities as well as shifts in community priorities and expectations over time and as such will be reviewed annually, or more often if required. The Plan seeks to support decision making by the community in prioritising investment, rather than be a prescriptive list of projects and programs to be delivered.
This plan also recognises that we are in both a challenging and exciting period of transition. The impacts of climate change will require enormous amounts of adaptation in the way we support our communities to manage, protect and utilise the natural resources of the region.
At the same time new and future changes to the way in which we value and manage our natural resources will provide significant opportunities for private and public land managers. The emergence of natural capital markets is expected to significantly shape our approaches to management of natural resources over the period of this plan.
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