Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council

Terms of Reference

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To provide advice on:

1. attaining the objects of legislation, policies and strategies dealing explicitly with the management of protected lands and the conservation and sustainable use of wildlife in the Northern Territory;
2. increasing the range, quality and extent of sustainable benefits gained from the active management of protected lands and wildlife; and
3. assessing the conservation and wildlife management implications of Government policies, strategies or plans directed at issues other than parks and wildlife, but having the potential to affect parks and wildlife.

Matters referred to the Council, without limiting the foregoing, may therefore include:

1. promoting understanding of the role and benefits of the protected lands system for Territory society;
2. facilitating the engagement of the Northern Territory community in conservation of landscapes, flora and fauna, including community participation in management of parks and reserves;
3. developing processes and incentives for landholder involvement in conservation actions outside the formal reserve system;
4. promoting effective joint management arrangements to optimise benefits for both traditional owners and the wider Territory public;
5. identifying new and improved opportunities for recreation and education on protected lands;
6. identifying and protecting special cultural values on protected lands;
7. identifying cultural issues raised by programs, plans or strategies for management of wildlife and conservation of biodiversity, including impacts on the operation of the Aboriginal customary economy;
8. defining and promoting the role of the protected lands system in regional development planning;
9. exploiting commercial incentives for conservation of landscapes, communities and species, especially through sustainable tourism but including other sustainable use of natural resources;
10. analysis and review of management plans and programs for individual parks and reserves or other conservation assets, including essential habitats, threatened communities and species, and harvested communities and species;
11. reviewing performance in realising the biodiversity and landscape conservation, recreational, educational and other social benefits of protected lands; and
12. assisting with identification of measures (indicators) of performance that are relevant to users of the protected lands system.

In addition to matters referred to it by the Commission or Director, the Council may consider and report on other matters identified by members and regarded by the Chair as consistent with the legislation and intent of these terms of reference.

 

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