❓ A WA parliamentary question examines the Department of Conservation and Land Management's (CALM) role in protecting endangered plant species and communities, particularly regarding land clearing and potential compensation for land release. The Minister's answer details CALM's statutory obligations, acknowledges losses, and explains the department's negotiation processes with developers.
AnsweredQoN 1735Legislative Council
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With regards to the Department of Conservation and Land Management’s requirement to protect endangered species and communities, I ask the Minister -
(1) What are the statutory obligations for CALM to prevent the loss of endangered plant species and communities?
(2) Have there been any losses of endangered plant species and communities due to land clearing in the metropolitan area in the past five years?
(3) Has CALM ever received payment/s in exchange for the release of land that contains endangered plant species and communities?
(4) If yes, please give details?
(5) If yes to (3), how is this compatible with CALM’s statutory obligations?
(1) What are the statutory obligations for CALM to prevent the loss of endangered plant species and communities?
(2) Have there been any losses of endangered plant species and communities due to land clearing in the metropolitan area in the past five years?
(3) Has CALM ever received payment/s in exchange for the release of land that contains endangered plant species and communities?
(4) If yes, please give details?
(5) If yes to (3), how is this compatible with CALM’s statutory obligations?
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Answered
2 April 2004
Responded by
Minister for Local Government and Regional Development representing the Minister for the Environment
Response time
30 days
1. Under section 33(1)(d) of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984, the Department of Conservation and Land Management is responsible for the conservation and protection of flora and fauna throughout the State, and in particular has responsibility for administering the Wildlife Conservation Act 1950. Under the Wildlife Conservation Act flora declared by the Minister for the Environment to be rare (threatened) may not be taken without the permission of the Minister. This power is delegated to the Executive Director and Director of Nature Conservation in the Department in cases where the taking will not have a significant adverse impact on the declared rare flora. In determining applications to take threatened flora the Minister seeks advice from the Department. The Wildlife Conservation Act also specially protects fauna declared by the Minister to be rare or likely to become extinct (threatened). There are no provisions in the CALM Act or the Wildlife Conservation Act that specifically provide for the protection of threatened ecological communities. The Environmental Protection Act 1986 has general provisions relating to impacts on the environment, and the Department of Conservation and Land Management provides advice to the Environmental Protection Authority on flora, fauna and ecological community conservation. 2. There have been losses of individual plants of endangered species, as well as occurrences and part occurrences of threatened ecological communities due to land clearing in the metropolitan area in the past five years, but there has been no loss of entire species or entire community types. 3, 4 & 5 The Department does not control the release of land for development. The Department has, however, negotiated with proponents seeking to subdivide or develop land as part of the process of proponents seeking approvals through Western Australian Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority processes. The Department’s objective in these negotiations is to have proponents put forward proposals that avoid or minimise impacts on threatened flora, fauna or ecological communities. The Department acts principally as an advisor to the Planning Commission and the Environmental Protection Authority in these processes. Proponents often agree to conserve threatened species or communities on site as a result of these negotiations, or the decision making authorities require their conservation as a condition of development or planning approval. In cases where conservation of the threatened species or ecological community cannot be achieved through redesign of the proposal, proponents may offer to contribute to their conservation elsewhere or in another manner. As an example, in 2003 a land developer at Jindalee offered to contribute $150,000 to a fund to provide for the conservation of a threatened ecological community as an offset for clearing an occurrence of about 2.15 ha of that community in a residential development. This offer was endorsed by the Department as one that would provide a suitable outcome for conservation, and the Department advised the Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority accordingly. This endorsement was given after investigations revealed that there was no practical way that the community could be conserved on site, that the loss of the occurrence would not have serious consequences for the conservation of the community type and that its overall future conservation, with the loss, could be enhanced by bringing other occurrences into the conservation reserve system. The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
2. There have been losses of individual plants of endangered species, as well as occurrences and part occurrences of threatened ecological communities due to land clearing in the metropolitan area in the past five years, but there has been no loss of entire species or entire community types. 3, 4 & 5 The Department does not control the release of land for development. The Department has, however, negotiated with proponents seeking to subdivide or develop land as part of the process of proponents seeking approvals through Western Australian Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority processes. The Department’s objective in these negotiations is to have proponents put forward proposals that avoid or minimise impacts on threatened flora, fauna or ecological communities. The Department acts principally as an advisor to the Planning Commission and the Environmental Protection Authority in these processes. Proponents often agree to conserve threatened species or communities on site as a result of these negotiations, or the decision making authorities require their conservation as a condition of development or planning approval. In cases where conservation of the threatened species or ecological community cannot be achieved through redesign of the proposal, proponents may offer to contribute to their conservation elsewhere or in another manner. As an example, in 2003 a land developer at Jindalee offered to contribute $150,000 to a fund to provide for the conservation of a threatened ecological community as an offset for clearing an occurrence of about 2.15 ha of that community in a residential development. This offer was endorsed by the Department as one that would provide a suitable outcome for conservation, and the Department advised the Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority accordingly. This endorsement was given after investigations revealed that there was no practical way that the community could be conserved on site, that the loss of the occurrence would not have serious consequences for the conservation of the community type and that its overall future conservation, with the loss, could be enhanced by bringing other occurrences into the conservation reserve system. The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
3, 4 & 5 The Department does not control the release of land for development. The Department has, however, negotiated with proponents seeking to subdivide or develop land as part of the process of proponents seeking approvals through Western Australian Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority processes. The Department’s objective in these negotiations is to have proponents put forward proposals that avoid or minimise impacts on threatened flora, fauna or ecological communities. The Department acts principally as an advisor to the Planning Commission and the Environmental Protection Authority in these processes. Proponents often agree to conserve threatened species or communities on site as a result of these negotiations, or the decision making authorities require their conservation as a condition of development or planning approval. In cases where conservation of the threatened species or ecological community cannot be achieved through redesign of the proposal, proponents may offer to contribute to their conservation elsewhere or in another manner. As an example, in 2003 a land developer at Jindalee offered to contribute $150,000 to a fund to provide for the conservation of a threatened ecological community as an offset for clearing an occurrence of about 2.15 ha of that community in a residential development. This offer was endorsed by the Department as one that would provide a suitable outcome for conservation, and the Department advised the Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority accordingly. This endorsement was given after investigations revealed that there was no practical way that the community could be conserved on site, that the loss of the occurrence would not have serious consequences for the conservation of the community type and that its overall future conservation, with the loss, could be enhanced by bringing other occurrences into the conservation reserve system. The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
As an example, in 2003 a land developer at Jindalee offered to contribute $150,000 to a fund to provide for the conservation of a threatened ecological community as an offset for clearing an occurrence of about 2.15 ha of that community in a residential development. This offer was endorsed by the Department as one that would provide a suitable outcome for conservation, and the Department advised the Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority accordingly. This endorsement was given after investigations revealed that there was no practical way that the community could be conserved on site, that the loss of the occurrence would not have serious consequences for the conservation of the community type and that its overall future conservation, with the loss, could be enhanced by bringing other occurrences into the conservation reserve system. The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
2. There have been losses of individual plants of endangered species, as well as occurrences and part occurrences of threatened ecological communities due to land clearing in the metropolitan area in the past five years, but there has been no loss of entire species or entire community types. 3, 4 & 5 The Department does not control the release of land for development. The Department has, however, negotiated with proponents seeking to subdivide or develop land as part of the process of proponents seeking approvals through Western Australian Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority processes. The Department’s objective in these negotiations is to have proponents put forward proposals that avoid or minimise impacts on threatened flora, fauna or ecological communities. The Department acts principally as an advisor to the Planning Commission and the Environmental Protection Authority in these processes. Proponents often agree to conserve threatened species or communities on site as a result of these negotiations, or the decision making authorities require their conservation as a condition of development or planning approval. In cases where conservation of the threatened species or ecological community cannot be achieved through redesign of the proposal, proponents may offer to contribute to their conservation elsewhere or in another manner. As an example, in 2003 a land developer at Jindalee offered to contribute $150,000 to a fund to provide for the conservation of a threatened ecological community as an offset for clearing an occurrence of about 2.15 ha of that community in a residential development. This offer was endorsed by the Department as one that would provide a suitable outcome for conservation, and the Department advised the Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority accordingly. This endorsement was given after investigations revealed that there was no practical way that the community could be conserved on site, that the loss of the occurrence would not have serious consequences for the conservation of the community type and that its overall future conservation, with the loss, could be enhanced by bringing other occurrences into the conservation reserve system. The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
3, 4 & 5 The Department does not control the release of land for development. The Department has, however, negotiated with proponents seeking to subdivide or develop land as part of the process of proponents seeking approvals through Western Australian Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority processes. The Department’s objective in these negotiations is to have proponents put forward proposals that avoid or minimise impacts on threatened flora, fauna or ecological communities. The Department acts principally as an advisor to the Planning Commission and the Environmental Protection Authority in these processes. Proponents often agree to conserve threatened species or communities on site as a result of these negotiations, or the decision making authorities require their conservation as a condition of development or planning approval. In cases where conservation of the threatened species or ecological community cannot be achieved through redesign of the proposal, proponents may offer to contribute to their conservation elsewhere or in another manner. As an example, in 2003 a land developer at Jindalee offered to contribute $150,000 to a fund to provide for the conservation of a threatened ecological community as an offset for clearing an occurrence of about 2.15 ha of that community in a residential development. This offer was endorsed by the Department as one that would provide a suitable outcome for conservation, and the Department advised the Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority accordingly. This endorsement was given after investigations revealed that there was no practical way that the community could be conserved on site, that the loss of the occurrence would not have serious consequences for the conservation of the community type and that its overall future conservation, with the loss, could be enhanced by bringing other occurrences into the conservation reserve system. The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
As an example, in 2003 a land developer at Jindalee offered to contribute $150,000 to a fund to provide for the conservation of a threatened ecological community as an offset for clearing an occurrence of about 2.15 ha of that community in a residential development. This offer was endorsed by the Department as one that would provide a suitable outcome for conservation, and the Department advised the Planning Commission and Environmental Protection Authority accordingly. This endorsement was given after investigations revealed that there was no practical way that the community could be conserved on site, that the loss of the occurrence would not have serious consequences for the conservation of the community type and that its overall future conservation, with the loss, could be enhanced by bringing other occurrences into the conservation reserve system. The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
The Department negotiates direct with proponents seeking permission under the Wildlife Conservation Act to take threatened flora. As a result of negotiations, proponents of developments may amend their initial proposals to protect the species on site, protect a proportion of the species on site and provide an offset that assists the overall conservation of the species in another way, or propose to take the species on site and provide an offset. All decisions that have the potential to have a significant impact on the conservation status of threatened flora are made by the Minister. The Minister determines whether the final proposal is consistent with the objectives of conservation and protection of wildlife when considering approval of any proposed taking of threatened flora. The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
The Department receives compensation for the clearing of State forest land as a standard component of State agreement acts associated with bauxite mining. Similar compensation arrangements have been incorporated in mining lease conditions imposed by the Minister administering the Mining Act in terms of mining impacts on lands vested in the Conservation Commission of Western Australia. In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
In determinations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986 the Department may receive compensation offsets for development approvals that impact on conservation lands, threatened species or threatened ecological communities. The approval of the Tutunup Titanium Minerals Mine of 17 March 2003 incorporated an agreed package of measures to minimise conservation impacts, in particular to the declared rare flora and threatened ecological community of shrublands on southern Swan Coastal Plain ironstone present on land adjacent to the area to be mined. These measures have been costed at $469,000. Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
Outcomes of the types outlined above are consistent with the Department’s statutory obligations under the Wildlife Conservation and Conservation and Land Management Acts.
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