❓ A parliamentary question regarding the release of endangered Carnaby's black cockatoos near Helms forest and the potential logging of the forest, raising concerns about habitat preservation and funding for the recovery project. The Minister's response clarifies the release location, funding details, and the rationale behind allowing logging in the area.
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HELMS FOREST BLOCK
I refer to Helms forest in Nannup, which is adjacent to the Blackwood River. (1) Can the minister confirm whether 15 endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos were released by the Department of Environment and Conservation’s wildlife branch into Helms forest at Nannup? (2) If yes to (1), what was the reason for releasing the birds into Helms forest? (3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
I refer to Helms forest in Nannup, which is adjacent to the Blackwood River. (1) Can the minister confirm whether 15 endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos were released by the Department of Environment and Conservation’s wildlife branch into Helms forest at Nannup? (2) If yes to (1), what was the reason for releasing the birds into Helms forest? (3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(1) Can the minister confirm whether 15 endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos were released by the Department of Environment and Conservation’s wildlife branch into Helms forest at Nannup? (2) If yes to (1), what was the reason for releasing the birds into Helms forest? (3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(2) If yes to (1), what was the reason for releasing the birds into Helms forest? (3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
[See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(8) Not applicable.
(1) Can the minister confirm whether 15 endangered Carnaby’s black cockatoos were released by the Department of Environment and Conservation’s wildlife branch into Helms forest at Nannup? (2) If yes to (1), what was the reason for releasing the birds into Helms forest? (3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(2) If yes to (1), what was the reason for releasing the birds into Helms forest? (3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(3) Can the minister confirm that the Carnaby’s black cockatoos recovery project has, to date, received direct and in-kind approved funding totalling $1.2 million? (4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(4) If no to (3), what is the correct figure? (5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(5) Can the minister confirm whether Helms is the last forest block in the Shire of Nannup not logged since the 1940s? (6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(6) Is the Helms forest block on the logging schedule for 2006? (7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(7) If yes to (6), why has logging been planned for this block given that it provides habitat for an endangered bird that considerable state and national funds are being used to save? (8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(8) If no to (6), is it on any logging schedule; and, if so when? The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
The PRESIDENT : Before I give the call to the Minister for Education and Training, I note that questions are becoming too long. That may mean that, in due course, fewer questions will be asked. Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. I was about to comment on that exact matter. It is only befitting that the longest question in the history of this house deserves the longest answer in the history of this house. I seek leave to table the document and have it incorporated into Hansard . Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Leave granted. [See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
[See paper 2039.] The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
The following material was incorporated - I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
I thank the Hon. Member for some notice of this question. (1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(1) No. The 15 cockatoos were released onto private property adjacent to Helms forest block. (2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(2) The cockatoos were assessed as suitable for release back to the wild and there was no justification for keeping them in captivity any longer. This release was only possible because of the opportunity to monitor the progress of the birds post-release on private property. (3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(3)-(4) The Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo Recovery Project has received some Federal funding through the Natural Resource Management program [$100,000 per annum for three years (September 2004 - August 2007) through the Northern Agricultural Catchment Council, Southwest Catchment Council and South Coast Regional Initiative Project Team] and two small grants through the Minister for the Environment’s Community Conservation Grant scheme ($4,420 in 2003/04 and $4,454 in 2004/05). In 2005/06 the Birds Australia Western Australia Group received a private and anonymous donation of $95,000 specifically to fund work on conserving Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo on the Swan Coastal Plain for one year. No estimates of in-kind worth of contributions from the Department of Environment and Conservation are available, but they would represent only about 10 per cent of the cash value of conservation efforts to date. (5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(5) No, more time is required to analyse timber harvesting records to confirm this. (6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(6) Yes. The total area of Helms forest block is 4,280 hectares and the area available for timber harvesting and placed on the 2006 Timber Harvesting Plan is 360 hectares. (7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(7) Helms forest block was independently assessed in 2001 under the Assessment of the Scientific, Economic and Community Values and the Impact of Logging on Salinity of Areas Subject to a Moratorium on Logging . The Government considered the assessment and decided that Helms forest block did not have conservation values which were under-represented in the formal conservation reserve system. Consequently, the Government retained Helms forest block as multiple-use State forest available for timber harvesting. Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Actions to protect fauna habitat in Helms forest block include the establishment of a Fauna Habitat Zone (FHZ) and the retention of a number of habitat trees within the nine per cent subject to timber harvesting. The strategy to manage the supply of hollows relies on preservation of trees of a size suitable for hollows in areas excluded from timber harvesting across the forest landscape. There are four levels of application for retained areas, which in descending order from the broad scale to the fine scale are: i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
i. the formal conservation reserve system; ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
ii. FHZ, which were established by the FMP for the purpose of preserving habitat to sustain wildlife and provide a population source for the recolonisation of cut over areas; iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
iii. the network of informal reserves, principally the stream zones, established by the FMP; and iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
iv. trees retained in harvest coupes by requirement of the silviculture prescription. Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
Categories (a), (b) and (c) comprise 52 per cent of the jarrah forest and category (d) requires that five primary habitat trees per hectare be retained in each hectare harvested. (8) Not applicable.
(8) Not applicable.
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