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Name 3 of the 5 main principles of green building design.
Sustainable Building site
Water quality and conservation
Minimise energy consumption
Indoor Environment quality
Sustainable materials
What is landcare?
Landcare is a not-for-profit government program that facilitates a national network of private land owners and locally-based community groups who care for the natural resources of our country.
What is public land and name 2 agencies that manage them
Owned by the government. Managed by Parks Victoria, DELWP, water authorities, Committees of management
Name an act and the year of its latest amendment?
(*Bonus if you can name it original date.)
Flora and Fauna Guarantee Amendment Act 2019
*Originally created in 1988
Explain 1 method that was used by VNPA in the Marine NP conflict and explain how effective it was?
Direct Action - rallies/protests - effective in raising awareness and free media attention.
Lobbying decision makers - contact local and state government - raise awareness and clarity of issue.
manipulating the media - publication in paper to raise support for the issue - effective in reaching large audience.
What are the 3 actions of landcare?
Improving our farmlands
Bringing back trees
Restoring wildlife habitats
What does DELWP stand for?
Department of Environment Land, Water and Planning
The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Amendment Act (2019) is at what level of government?
State level
What is the Ramsar Conventions purpose?
•The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for national action and international cooperation for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
•The purpose of the Ramsar Convention is also to ensure migratory birds have habitats maintained at both ends of their migratory path and countries have designate wetlands of international importance.
Name 2 methods used by either Seafood Industry Victoria or Victorian Recreational Fishers
SIV
Direct Action - protests march on parliament steps - effective in raising awareness and free media attention.
Lobbied Decision makers - contacted local members to oppose - effective in getting compensation
Formed Partnership - formed with VRFish - effective in growing support
VRFish
Prominent people - Used Rex Hunt - effective at raising profile of campaign.
Describe two disadvantages of Landcare?
Requires volunteers and community engagement
Requires finding from government that is not always available
Who is Trust for Nature and what is their vision?
Nor-for-profit organisation that works through shared expectation and responsibility to protect and conserve native plants and wildlife of significant natural areas on private land.
What is the objective of the FFG Amendment Act?
To protect and conserve communities of flora and provides for the listing of Victoria’s threatened plant and animal species, ecological communities and potentially threatening processes.
Name a specific environment where a Ramsar Site Exists and what type of environment is it.
Corner Inlet, Western port, port phillip bay, barmah forest.
Corner inlet has inter tidal mudflats and mangroves.
All Ramsar sites are wetlands.
Name a processes that was used in the Desalination plant conflict and by both groups. who was this processes effective for?
Use of Political system - YWYS took government to court as they shouldnt go ahead until they had an EES.
Government took YWYS to court and forced them to cease all operations until legal debts are paid. YWYS disbanded due to bankruptcy
Name a cause and a management strategy for topsoil erosion.
Cause: clearing of vegetation and running cattle on steep/south facing slopes.
Management: Re-vegetate land to decrease water runoff and hold soil together. Remove cattle from steeper inclines and south facing slopes
What is a conservation convent?
A program where private land owners enter an agreement to permanently protect wildlife and plants on private land.
What is an action statement?
Action Statements are detailed documents that describe the recommended conservation management practices for specific threatened species.
Action Statements will include:
•items (species, communities or threatening processes), locations, threats, actions, organisations, results
What is a weakness of the Ramsar Convention?
Ramsar sites/zones are negatively affected by processes which occur outside of them, yet impact on them. e.g. Western Port Bay (a Ramsar site) has 14 waterways that filter into it, most of which carry waste from agricultural practices and other primary industries.
Name 3 important dates within the Marine NP conflict studied and why they were important.
1991 - Land Conservation Council (LCC) commenced 10 year investigation
2001 - Labor Party proposed legislation for 12 marine parks and 10 sanctuaries.
2002 - Legislation passed in parliament for 13 marine NP and 11 Marina Sanctuaries
Name two other impacts that occurred at Archie's Creek (case study) other than topsoil erosion.
Decreased water quality, decreased biodiversity, stream bank erosion, land slips.
What is the revolving fund and what is its benefit?
Trust for nature purchase property, place a conservation convent on the land and then re-sell the property. This creates more Conservation convents as well as introducing more private landowners to conservation and land protection under the stewardship program.
Name a Species that is protected under the FFG Amendment Act (2019)
New Holland Mouse
Hooded Plover
Describe or explain an improvement that could be made to make Ramsar Convention more effective.
Could include an area surrounding the zone that has similar management strategies.
Include waterways that flow into wetlands areas to prevent pollution being washed into wetland areas.