Program Management

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Introduction
The ACT Nature Conservation Strategy 2013-2023 improves the attainment of the 1997
strategy that achieved significant progress in improving the reserve estate, putting in place
measures to manage the ecological threats that affect both the biodiversity and the aquatic
ecosystems, along with managing the recovery of threatened ecological communities and
species. This report will address the ACT’s program overview and outcome, strategy alignment,
program benefits management, and program stakeholder engagement.
Program Overview and Outcome
The ACT Nature Conservation Strategy 2013-2023 provides an outline and a vision for
conservation over the next few decades. The objective of this strategy is to strengthen the
primary foundational elements that comprise resilience, connectivity, as well as community
capacities. ACT is a long-term approach of building natural ecosystems along with people’s
adaptive capacity to a changing climate (Apostolopoulou & Adams, 2017). With the aim of
managing biodiversity as well as the native habitat between and within the areas that are
presently protected in the reserve system, the ACT strategy provides an outline of the plan to be
adopted in coming up with a larger and more resilient landscapes that are across several tenures
such as urban areas, reserves, riverine corridors, open space, and rural lands (Dai, et al., 2013).
The outcomes of this ACT include maintaining and improving native vegetation and
biodiversity, landscapes are more resilient and this comprises of climate change, and the
community wealth and the well-being are enhanced by using and appreciating natural areas,
including ‘green assets’ in the urban areas.
Program Strategy Alignment

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This program mainly consists of five primary strategies. The first strategy includes
enhancing habitat connectivity along with ecosystem function. Specifically, this strategy is based
on bioregional and off-reserve conservation techniques as outlined in the original Nature
Conservation Strategy (1997). The second strategy involves managing threats to biodiversity.
This strategy continues to implement the weed and vertebrate pest strategies and continuingly
integrating ecological considerations into fire management, as well as several improved
catchment management actions (Islam & Kitazawa, 2013). The third strategy is protecting
ecological communities, including species. The strategy consists of measures that are designed to
conserve ecosystems and species through improved landscape resilience (Warner, Lamm,
Rumble, Martin & Cantrell, 2016). Also, the strategy aims at improving urban areas’ biodiversity
value. The strategy improves ecological connectivity both at the regional and local scales by
connecting the urban green assets with reserves, local wildlife among other things. The last
strategy is strengthening community engagement by involving community firms and dedicating
people who volunteer their expertise and time.
Program Benefits Management
Managing the benefits of the ACT program is based on four focal landscapes which are
clearly laid out in the ACT strategy. The management and restoration of each landscape is as
shown: urban landscape is the first focal landscape that aims at enhancing several ecosystems
that are in line with urban development and which provide certain environmental services that
consist of open space along with street-scapes, connectivity, and habitat along with amenity
parks (Mazzanti & Zoboli, 2013). The rural landscape is the second and it aims at strengthening
connectivity between native vegetation remnants and reserves and other tenures, including the
restoration of ecosystem services that comprise primary production and drinking water. The third