FATE in detail What is the FATE vision and how might it look in different situations?
This short article provides a broad outline of FATE's vision for commercial use of native species and how it might be implemented in different situations and in ways that have a positive impact on biodiversity, landscape function and rural people.
FATE and Kangaroos: Can the harvest of kangaroos provide incentives for conservation and if so, how?
Commercial kangaroo harvesting began in Australia as a means of achieving more efficient control over population numbers of animals commonly perceived to be a pest by landholders. However, if landholders came to derive a commercial return from kangaroo harvesting and valued them as a resource rather than a pest, could this have conservation benefits for Australia's rangelands?
Blue Mountains Western Edge Native Forestry Project
The Greater Blue Mountains region contains 8 protected areas and significant urban, peri-urban, industrial and rural areas, with more than a million hectares declared as World Heritage Area. The region also provides ecosystem services including clean water, air and recreation to Sydney, but these services and its World Heritage values are coming under increasing threat due to the combined pressures of population growth and urbanisation, variations in rural land-use and climate change.
FATE has been working with a number of project partners to explore the scope
for strategic native farm forestry activities to provide a range of solutions
with economic benefits for landholders as well as increased native vegetation
within the catchment and a significant buffer to the World Heritage area. more...
Wellington Working Farms Project
FATE has working with a number of partners including Wellington Council, local schools, TAFE, corrective services and indigenous stakeholders on a project based around a UNSW-owned property in Wellington in the Central West of NSW. The project vision is for sustainable community-based land-management of the property through strategic grazing, the development of a native grass-seed nursery, landscape rehabilitation using harvestable tree and shrub species and monitoring combined with education and training opportunities. more...
Common-property approaches to achieving systematic landscape change in Australia
Recognising that wildlife, water, fire and various other natural resource management issues don't recognise property boundaries, FATE has explored a number of possible models for cross-property approaches to achieving landscape change in Australia.
Regulatory and Policy Constraints on Conservation through Sustainable Use in Australia
Dr Rosie Cooney has undertaken an examination of the barriers in policy and regulation that face efforts to develop conservation through sustainable use of wild fauna and flora. This work, funded by RIRDC, focused on three specific sustainable use activities: recreational hunting, commercial sanctuaries based on reintroduction of native fauna, and commercial harvesting. It identified specific policy, regulatory and administrative barriers to achieving conservation through these means, and went on to outline specific assumptions underlying and shaping these barriers, such as the assumption that the State is the best protector of species, and that commercial activity and conservation are necessarily incompatible. It then went on to canvass some leading examples of sustainable use internationally and draw lessons and recommendations for the Australian context.
The report Too many sticks, not enough carrots? Regulatory barriers to conservation through commercial sustainable use of wildlife in Australia is being finalised and should shortly be published by RIRDC. Meanwhile, a draft can be obtained from the author and you can download a summary version presented at the IUCN Oceania Regional meeting in Wellington, New Zealand in July 2007.
Last Updated 21 April 2008
