Healthy Land and Water is coordinating the review of the South East Queensland Natural Resource Management Plan (SEQ NRM Plan) and is seeking your input and that of the wider community. This will help groundtruth our data, identify values, gaps and challenges and prioritise actions to protect and restore the region's natural assets. We want to make SEQ an icon for its natural wealth, its liveability, and its people.

We've included links to the documents at the bottom of the page if you would like to reference them.

Please send any questions regarding the SEQ NRM Plan Review to info@hlw.org.au.

This project is supported by Healthy Land and Water through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.
Please review the summary natural asset and regional risk maps before continuing.

We have undertaken a preliminary assessment of the status and extent of the region's natural assets (e.g., air, water, soil, native vegetation) and developed summary reports for each local government area, as well as a regional map of risks to natural assets.

Visit https://hlw.org.au/nrm-review-reference-documents/ to access and review reports.
Status of Local Natural Assets

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* 1. Which Local Natural Asset Status Summary Report/s did you review?*

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* 2. Does the report match your understanding of the current location and extent of natural assets in your selected local government area?*

  Strongly disagree Disagree Unsure Agree Strongly agree
Waterways
Bushland (Native Vegetation)
Bushland (Recovering Forest)
Wetlands
Beaches
Farmland
Seagrass & Mangroves
Ocean

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* 3. Greenspaces

Greenspaces generally refer to public open space for nature conservation, and nature-based recreation (In SEQ, approx. 21% in 2011; Ecological guidelines indicate that critical thresholds for ecosystems rapidly decline below 30%). While most authorities have over 30% of their designated area as greenspace, Toowoomba, Scenic Rim, Logan, Lockyer and Ipswich Local Government Authorities had less than 15%.

In your local government area, do you think the areas allocated for greenspaces are sufficient?

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* 4. Scenic Amenity

Scenic amenity is an expression of the relative contribution of each place in the landscape to the collective community appreciation of open space as viewed from places that are important to the public (e.g., the Border Ranges, North Stradbroke Island and Moreton Bay, Glasshouse Mountains).

In your local government area, how content are you with the scenic amenities available?

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* 5. Air Quality

Air quality is influenced by industry sources, smoke and dust (dust storms), as well as car pollution.

This map (click to enlarge in new window) depicts air quality hotspots relative to the location of significant point sources of pollution and their relative risk to good air quality. Please select your level of agreement.		 Air quality

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* 6. People and community

Effective regional management and stewardship is dependent on people and communities, and is reflected in resource investments, partnerships and projects.
The attached map is a snapshot of HLW member community groups that take an interest in managing the natural and cultural assets within South East Queensland. The map also shows HLW partner projects focusing on  protecting, managing and restoring land, water, biodiversity, coastal and cultural assets, as well as property and fire management planning,  and grazing land management.

 
Are you involved in a community effort?

Would you be interested? Yes/No/

Do you feel empowered? Yes/No
If yes, do you feel that your involvement and that of others is effective?

If not, how would you like to be facilitated to be more effective?

If no, what are the barriers? (give a selection of responses)

In your local government area, to what extent are people and communities empowered/facilitated for effective management and stewardship of natural assets?  

A snapshot of Healthy Land and Water's Community and Project investments in 2019/20 can be found in our Annual Report: https://healthylandwater.com.au/cms/


 community map

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* 7. Have you observed any change in the condition of particular natural assets between 2014 and now in your selected local government area?*

  Declined Stayed the same Improved
Waterways
Bushland (Native Vegetation)
Bushland (Recovering Forest)
Wetlands
Beaches
Farmland
Seagrass & Mangroves
Ocean
Greenspaces
Scenic Amenity
Air Quality
Community

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* 8. Drivers of change are the external forces influencing how the landscapes operate, and therefore shaping future pathways.

The 2016 review of the SEQ NRM Plan, "Prosperous SEQ", identified three key regional drivers of change affecting the extent and condition of SEQ’s natural assets.

Are these still relevant to your selected local government area?

Select all that apply.

 SEQ risk map


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* 9. What are some of the current and future processes  and issues in your region that could pose significant threats to natural assets?

These could include large infrastructure projects, urban expansion, policy changes (e.g., water trading rules), transition to services economy, etc.

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* 10. Considering the change/s you have observed in natural assets in your selected local government area, will current practices maintain/improve their status?

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* 11. If you answered no to Question 10 above, what needs to change?

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* 12. Who do you think should be involved in the review the SEQ NRM Plan?

Who are your local champions, thought leaders and/or key influencers of natural resource management?
Who are the regional champions, thought leaders and/or key influencers of natural resource management?

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* 13. For the SEQ NRM plan to be useful, it needs to capture your aspirations and ideas about desired futures. What is your vision for natural resource management in SEQ?

This question seeks your feedback on the types of change you would like to see for natural assets, and options for navigating some of the challenges to a desired future.

About you - Register your interest in discussions on the way forward for SEQ!

Please complete this section to help us tailor our consultation on different components of the SEQ NRM Plan and to ensure that we appropriately engage with you on issues that you are interested in or have knowledge of.

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* 14. Privacy Collection Notice

Healthy Land and Water is collecting your contact details and knowledge on natural assets to assist the review of the SEQ NRM Plan. The information collected may be provided to the Australian Government as part of Healthy Land and Water’s reporting obligations. Healthy Land and Water is committed to taking all reasonable steps under the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth) to protect your personal information that we hold from misuse, interference, loss and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure.

I have read and agree to the terms and conditions of Healthy Land and Water's Privacy Policy (https://hlw.org.au/iso-certification/privacy-policy).*

Selecting 'Yes' below, will enable us to contact you directly regarding further consultation opportunities and the progress of the SEQ NRM Plan review, and allow you to complete the remainder of this form.

Selecting 'No' below, will save your answers to this point and exit you from this survey form (we will not have any record of your personal information and we will not be able to contact you).

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* 15. Your name:

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* 16. If your response is on behalf of an organisation (or business unit within an organisation), please provide your organisation or business unit name.

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* 17. Your email:

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* 18. Your phone number:

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* 19. Do you identify as Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander? QUESTION TEXT TBC

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* 20. How would you prefer to participate in the SEQ NRM Plan review?

Tick all that apply.

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* 21. Would you prefer to participate online or face-to-face?

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* 22. How familiar are you with the 2009 SEQ NRM Plan?

NRM Plan

*REFERENCE DOCUMENTS

NRM PLAN: https://hlw.org.au/download/south-east-queensland-natural-resource-management-plan-2009-2031

MANAGING NATURAL ASSETS: https://hlw.org.au/download/managing-natural-assets-for-a-prosperous-south-east-queensland-2014-2031/

REGIONAL 3-PAGE SNAPSHOTS & MAPS: https://hlw.org.au/nrm-review-reference-documents/

Closer inspection of each natural asset is available from the NRM Plan Targets Atlas 2020 (https://seqcatchments.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html?id=a513ed6bda4947d4985970082c1cf5b1)
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