Our priority issues are addressed through the Regional Strategy and Investment Proposal by:

1. Ensuring availability of adequate information and data
2. Promoting Natural Resource Management principles in policy, planning or decision-making
3. Supporting on-ground actions that can be confidently related to achieving Resource Condition Targets.
4. Supporting the community to participate more effectively in NRM by building community responsibility, awareness and capacity
5. Ensuring baseline information is available and establishing a monitoring and evaluation framework to assist achievement of the Resource Condition Targets.

The Southern NRM Strategy addresses these major priorities:

• Ensuring a balance between environmental, economic and social outcomes
• Maintaining and/or improving water quality in freshwater and marine, coastal and estuarine systems
• Securely and sustainably allocating surface and groundwater resources for domestic, agricultural, industrial and environmental purposes
• Ensuring a minimum level of native vegetation in good condition is retained in each of the bioregions to maintain landscape character and integrity and protect the Region’s biodiversity
• Protecting key terrestrial, freshwater and marine, coastal and estuarine ecosystems, species and their habitats
• Preventing further spread of weeds, pests and diseases
• Maintaining and/or improving soil condition
• Preventing further spread of salinity
• Protecting key landforms (geodiversity) and Cultural Landscapes

To learn more about how we reached our priorities please click here.