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Healthy Habitats - 4WD Best Management Practice and Training Program
Program Objectives:
Healthy Habitats is an initiative of the Burnett Mary Regional Group to protect and enhance the region's significant biodiversity assets. Healthy Habitats is funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments through the "Caring for our Country Program". There are three core components of the Healthy Habitats program:
*On-ground investment in terrestrial and coastal biodiversity priority areas
*Priority species and ecosystems research and monitoring
*Biodiversity education and awareness raising
The objective of the program is to support a range of high priority activities and to improve the long term security of the region's significant biodiversity assets.
This activity has also been funded externally through an additional Community Coastcare, Caring for our Country grant.
The Healthy Habitats Program will build on the success of the Conservation Partnerships and Healthy Habitats programs that were conducted between 2004 and 2009.
The main target relating to this tender is "To mitigate threats to World Heritage areas"
Specific deliverables for this activity are split across two discrete but inter-related activities:
Community Coastcare (Part A)
*Code of practice (and promotional products) developed for4WD operators accessing tidal wetland areas (by no later than August 2010)
Healthy Habitats (Part B)
*Review of Code of Practice for 4WD operators accessing sandy foreshores and distribution of products to 1000 Fraser Island visitors (by no later than May 2010).
*Development of a training program to ensure best management practice (BMP) fo r 4WD operators whilst accessing sandy foreshores / dunal areas with a particular focus on Fraser Island (by no later than May 2010)
*Delivery of a training program to ensure BMP for 4WD operators whilst accessing sandy foreshores / dunal areas with a particular focus on Fraser Island (by no later than May 2011); and
*Delivery of BMP materials / information to a further 1000 Fraser Island visitors (by no later than May 2011).
The Healthy Habitats program is implemented throughout the Burnett Mary Region in Queensland, which includes the Burnett, Baffle, Isis, Kolan and Mary Catchment areas.
This tender is primarily for the delivery of the above mentioned products to 4WD owners and commercial operators in the Burnett Mary coastal region, with a specific focus on visitors to Fraser Island.
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