Warringah's Biodiversity Study

Recently Warringah Council placed the Warringah Biodiversity Conservation Study on public exhibition. WUFA found out about this study by going to the Warringah Council website and looking under "Public ---> For Public Comment". Under this heading it had a section called "Warringah's Wonderful Wildlife". By clicking on this link we found the Warringah Biodiversity Conservation Study. After finding out that this study actually applied Conservation ratings to land which included private land holdings, we were alarmed, so we started acting:

Our issues are:

Warringah Council must notify property owners of studies (by sending out a letter to the landowners address for rates notices), that affect their land to allow the landowners involvement with the study.
When a study goes on public exhibition, the council must send out letters to all landowners that are affected by the study, notifying them that the study affects their land and the study in on public exhibition.
The only process which is acceptable to apply conservation ratings to Private Land is through an independantg audit of each block of land. It is not acceptable to apply conservation ratings to land through a desktop assessment.

We'll keep you posted on what happens.

Below are links to the various documents that make up the Warringah Biodiversity Conservation Study:

Warringah Biodiversity Conservation Study (PDF 2.2MB)

Conservation Significance Map Series (PDF 19.5MB)

Conservation and Threat Significance Map Series (PDF 19.5MB)

Conservation Significance Tables (PDF 2MB)

Threat Potential Tables (PDF 2MB)

Below is a link to the Warringah Darft Environmental Sustainability Study which was also on public exhibtion recently:

Draft Environmental Sustainability Strategy