Selected Projects and Case Studies
Evaluation practice from Tasmania
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REPORT: This is a summary of the first State of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Report. The main purposes of the report are:
1. to provide a structured, evidence-based account of how management of the TWWHA is performing in achieving its management objectives and obligations under the World Heritage Convention—to identify, protect, conserve, present, transmit to future generations and, if appropriate, rehabilitate the World Heritage values of the property;
2. to provide informed feedback that guides management to better achieve objectives and deliver desired outcomes; and
3. to increase the transparency of management for the TWWHA.
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REPORT: The Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Project is the largest eradication program ever attempted for rabbits, ship rats or mice anywhere in the world and is one of the largest conservation management projects in Tasmania’s history. This report evaluates the effectiveness of the project and presents the evidence that enabled this project to be declared successful in April 2014.
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REPORT: This report examines the effectiveness of a collaborative project between the Parks and Wildlife Service and a community volunteer group—Wildcare SPRATS—to eradicate the invasive weed sea spurge from Tasmania’s remote southwest wilderness coastline. This evaluation concludes that the project has performed outstandingly well in achieving its objectives with all infested sites along 600km of coastline now weeded. Maintaining Tasmania’s wilderness coastline free of sea spurge is considered feasible and likely with only low levels of ongoing surveillance and maintenance.
This project demonstrates a successful model of government/community partnership which has delivered important environmental outcomes that would have been beyond the capacity of the management agency without capable and committed volunteers.
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REPORT: This report examines the effectiveness of a collaborative project between the Parks and Wildlife Service and Tasmanian Aboriginal people to develop a short loop walk at Melaleuca to present Aboriginal cultural values. This evaluation concludes that the Needwonnee Aboriginal Walk project has performed outstandingly well in all respects. All the project objectives have either been achieved or are on track to achievement.
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REPORT: This report examines the performance of management for back-country (generally overnight) walking tracks in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA). The evaluation concludes that the extensive walking track network in the TWWHA provides a diverse range of recreational walking opportunities which are highly valued by Tasmanian bushwalkers, and attract significant numbers of interstate and international visitors.
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REPORT: This report now presents Tasmania‘s innovative state-wide management effectiveness monitoring and reporting system for Tasmania‘s entire national parks and reserves estate managed by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service under the National Parks and Reserves Management Act 2002. The overall objective of this initiative is:
“To develop a practical performance monitoring and reporting system that generates measured evidence of management progress, achievements and challenges across Tasmania‘s national parks and reserves.”
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BOOK: This chapter provides a 30 year retrospective on the development of the adaptive management system for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia). It describes the historical background, key influences and stages that paved the way to establishment of adaptive management. It outlines how effectiveness monitoring, evaluation and reporting are integrated with the management plan for the Area to establish an ongoing adaptive management cycle.
Management plans and strategies
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This management plan has been released by the Queensland Government (Australia). Daintree is one of Queensland’s iconic national parks, and forms part of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area. The national park is located 100km north of Cairns within land of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Bama (Aboriginal people). The management plan was developed jointly with the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people and the Queensland Government.
A significant feature of this plan is the approach of incorporating Eastern Kuku Yalanji Bama’s values and their connection to country into the Queensland Values Based Management Framework and World Heritage criteria. The plan is developed around the Cultural landscape of the Eastern Kuku Yalanji Bama and uses Eastern Kuku Yalanji language throughout the document.
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The Queensland state government of Australia has released a management plan for the World Heritage-listed Hinchinbrook Island National Park, located offshore from the town of Cardwell. A key feature of this plan is the Values Based Management Framework which “provides structure for strategic planning, and incorporates key steps for monitoring progress, evaluating performance, and reporting on the effectiveness of management actions over time.”
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The Tasmanian Land Conservancy’s 2016-2020 Strategic Plan sets the course of work for the TLC in achieving conservation on private land in the state of Tasmania, Australia. The Tasmanian Land Conservancy is a registered environmental organisation in Australia.
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Parks Victoria, January 2017. This is the first plan launched since Parks Victoria adopted a “best-practice approach to conservation planning for managing the extensive parks estate across Victoria.” Using the conservation action planning (CAP) methodology, Parks Victoria can “identify and focus on strategies that will achieve the greatest improvement in the overall health of ecosystems”.
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This plan sets out the Wunambal Gaambera Aboriginal people’s vision, targets, strategies, actions and monitoring program “to help us look after and keep our Country and culture healthy, and build the capacity and wealth of our families to live on and secure futures from our Country” on the Uunguu Coast Kimberley region of the state of Western Australia.