Conservation and Environmental Strategies
The City of Canning has implemented a number of Conservation and Environment Strategies.
Urban Forest Strategy
The City of Canning's award-winning Urban Forest Strategy (PDF 28MB) is an ambitious plan to increase the City's urban canopy cover by 22.3% over the next 20 years.
Environmental Management Strategy
Working to achieve better environmental management outcomes, the Environment Management Strategy provides a framework to help inform and develop plans. The goals of the strategy are:
- Protecting, preserving and promoting our natural places, flora and fauna.
- Sustainably managing resources.
- A sustainable and environmentally aware community.
The key considerations are:
- Climate change
Understand and address potential outcomes of climate change and facilitate the development of a resilient City. - Natural areas
Maintain, enhance and restore natural areas and protect biodiversity values. - Water
Protect and enhance waterways, wetlands and the groundwater and ensure sustainable use and management of water resources. - Heritage
Protection of the significant environmental and cultural values of the Canning River together with the region’s traditional owners. - Built environment
Deliver built form outcomes that optimise energy, water and waste resource use of places and spaces over their whole-of-life.
Local Biodiversity Strategy
At its Ordinary Council Meeting 19 June 2018, Council endorsed the Local Biodiversity Strategy 2018.
The strategy outlines a 20-year action plan for the protection and strategic management of natural areas in the City. The actions include:
- Improved provisions for biodiversity in the City’s local planning framework and their application in future land use decisions.
- Development of a Strategic Local Reserve Management Plan.
- Development of a plan for restoration of natural areas in the City.
- Development of an incentive package to encourage vegetation retention and increased use of local plants in landscaping by developers and private landholders.
- Continued support to community volunteers engaged in bushland restoration activities.
- Mainstreaming consideration of biodiversity within all City programs and adopting a communications strategy that engages all government and community stakeholders.
Water Management Strategy
The City's Water Management Strategy provides a framework for the achievement of better water management outcomes. The strategy has the following objectives:
- Recognise the ecological, social and cultural importance of water.
- Respond to the needs of the environment and community in a changing climate.
- Educate and inform the community to build understanding and support for change.
- Promote innovative and visionary approaches to water management.
- Protect and restore the water quality, hydrological and ecological function of wetlands, waterways and groundwater systems.
- Reduce water use overall and promote the fit-for purpose use of all available water resources.
- Deliver functional and sustainable public open spaces.
These objectives have been developed in response to key water-related issues which fall into five core themes for water management:
- Planning for a future population
- Planning and land use
- Community facilities
- Infrastructure
- Catchment management
- Topography and soil
- Surface water
- Water quality
- Water availability and efficiency
- Surface water
- Ground water
- Preparing for a future climate
- Current climate
- Future climate
- Djarlgarra – the Canning River, a place of abundance
- Biodiversity
- Heritage
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