Schedule Sch 8 - Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) Management Plan 2005–2012 - Australian IUCN reserve management principles | Zoe
Schedule 8. Australian IUCN reserve management principles
(EPBC r.10.04)
Part 1. General administrative principles
1 Community participation
Management arrangements should, to the extent practicable, provide for broad and meaningful participation by the community, public organisations and private interests in designing and carrying out the functions of the reserve or zone.
2 Effective and adaptive management
Management arrangements should be effective and appropriate to the biodiversity objectives and the socio-economic context of the reserve or zone. They should be adaptive in character to ensure a capacity to respond to uncertainty and change.
3 Precautionary principle
A lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent degradation of the natural and cultural heritage of a reserve or zone where there is a threat of serious or irreversible damage.
4 Minimum impact
The integrity of a reserve or zone is best conserved by protecting it from disturbance and threatening processes. Potential adverse impacts on the natural, cultural and social environment and surrounding communities should be minimised as far as practicable.
5 Ecologically sustainable use
If resource use is consistent with the management principles that apply to a reserve or zone, it should (if it is carried out) be based on the principle (of ecologically sustainable use) that:
(a) natural resources should only be used within their capacity to sustain natural processes while maintaining the life-support systems of nature; and
(b) the benefit of the use to the present generation should not diminish the potential of the reserve or zone to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations.
6 Transparency of decision-making
The framework and processes for decision-making for management of the reserve or zone should be transparent. The reasons for making decisions should be publicly available, except to the extent that information, including information that is culturally sensitive or commercial-in-confidence, needs to be treated as confidential.
7 Joint management
If the reserve or zone is wholly or partly owned by Aboriginal people, continuing traditional use of the reserve or zone by resident Indigenous people, including the protection and maintenance of cultural heritage, should be recognised.
Part 2. Principles for each IUCN category
Note: Items one to six of Part 2 are not reproduced here.
7 Managed resource protected area
Note This category corresponds to the IUCN protected area management category VI.
7.01 The reserve or zone should be managed mainly for the sustainable use of natural ecosystems based on the following principles.
7.02 The biological diversity and other natural values of the reserve or zone should be protected and maintained in the long term.
7.03 Management practices should be applied to ensure ecologically sustainable use of the reserve or zone.
7.04 Management of the reserve or zone should contribute to regional and national development to the extent that this is consistent with these principles.
Appendix B. Parks Australia Planning and Performance Assessment Framework (extract)
The following outcomes developed by the Director of National Parks under the framework are relevant to the Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters).
KRA1: Natural heritage management
1.1 Natural values for which Commonwealth reserves were declared and/or recognised have been maintained.
1.2 Populations of EPBC listed threatened species and their habitats have been conserved.
KRA4: Visitor management and park use
4.1 Visitors to Commonwealth reserves enjoy inspirational, satisfying and safe experiences.
4.2 Visitor impacts (on reserve management, values, the environment and other visitors) are within acceptable levels.
4.3 Public awareness and appreciation of the values of Commonwealth reserves have been enhanced.
4.4 Commercial operators provide a high quality service to park visitors.
KRA5: Stakeholders and partnerships
5.1 Volunteers contribute to area management based on clearly defined roles.
5.2 Stakeholders, e.g. neighbours, State agencies and park user groups, are involved in, and contribute effectively to, park management activities.
5.3 Commercial partnership opportunities are encouraged and evaluated.
KRA6: Business management
6.1 Planning and decision-making are based on best available information, legislative obligations, Parks Australia policy and social justice principles.
6.2 Financial and business management are based on best practice and Government requirements.
6.3 High levels of staff expertise and performance are recognised and valued.
6.4 Obligations under the EPBC Act and Regulations relating to management of Commonwealth reserves are complied with.
Appendix C. Species of conservation significance in the Park
Table 1. Protected species known to occur in the Park
Table 1 lists species protected under international agreements and the EPBC Act (at time of preparation of this Plan) that are frequently observed or have been reported in the Park or its vicinity.
These species found dead in the region of the Park.
Table 2. Other protected species predicted to occur in the Park
Table 2 lists species protected under international agreements and the EPBC Act (at time of preparation of this Plan) that are reasonably expected to occur within the Park, based on the Department’s data holdings and conservation plans and South Australian Museum records.
† No sygnathids were collected in the Great Australian Bight during the 2002 survey by the South Australian Research and Development Institute, which used a benthic sled to collect seabed specimens.
There are press reports of members of these species being washed up on Eyre Peninsula beaches.
Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters)
All of that area within the Southern Ocean contained within and bounded as follows*:
(i) commencing at the intersection of the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes south and the adjacent area** boundary between Western Australia and South Australia;
(ii) then generally north along that adjacent area boundary to its intersection with the outer limit of the coastal waters*** of South Australia;
(iii) then generally east along the outer limit of the coastal waters of South Australia to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes south;
(iv) then west along the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 51 minutes 58 seconds east;
(v) then south along the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 51 minutes 58 seconds east to its intersection with the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone****;
(vi) then generally northwest along the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 28 minutes 2 seconds east;
(vii) then north along the meridian of longitude 130 degrees 28 minutes 2 seconds east to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes south; and
(viii) then west along the parallel of latitude 31 degrees 47 minutes to the point of commencement.
* All geographic coordinates are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) as described in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette GN35 of 6 September 1995.
** The adjacent area in relation to each State and the Northern Territory is the area the boundary of which is described under the headings referring to that State and the Northern Territory in Schedule 2 to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 immediately before the commencement of the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 and Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980.
*** The coastal waters are defined in relation to each State and the Northern Territory by the Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 and Coastal Waters (Northern Territory Powers) Act 1980.
**** The exclusive economic zone in relation to Australia and its external territories has been declared under the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Proclamation dated 26 July 1994 published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. S 290 of 29 July 1994).
Appendix E. Great Australian Bight Marine Park (gazetted areas)