Welcome to the Border Ranges Cross Regional Biodiversity Hotspot Rainforest Recovery Planning community Web site.

This site has been kindly hosted by Fred Boulton, owner of Mallanganee General Store, Boultons Web Development and IT and Mallanganee.com. (Mallanganee is one of Kyogle Shires ‘Gateway to the Rainforest villages’, with one of the best examples of Dry Rainforest in NSW located on the Richmond Range just a couple of kilometres from the village).

This cross-regional project is being developed through a partnership, which includes NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, Parks and Wildlife, the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority, South East Queensland Catchments and the Australian Government.

The multi-species approach being undertaken in this project acknowledges that rainforest communities extend across property and State boundaries on both public and private land and that often groups of species are subject to common threats to their long term survival.

The preliminary maps and documents will remain attached as a link to the Mallanganee.com site to facilitate community consultation until the draft plan is finalised for formal public exhibition after the end of July 2007. The rainforest recovery plan will identify priority sites and actions where resources will be directed for rainforest recovery in the cross regional (NENSW/SE QLD) planning area over the five year life of the plan.

Members of the community are invited to use this site to provide comments, suggestions, or ask questions on the development of the plan on the site forum. Standard netiquette applies to this site. While we welcome constructive criticism, bad language or vilification will not be tolerated on this site. I will endeavour to answer questions where possible or refer them to relevant members of the planning team where necessary.

Jim Morrison, Community Representative, Cross Regional Biodiversity Steering Group.

Site Index

This site contains four sections plus a public forum (registration required for posting comments).

1 NEWSLETTERS

PDF Newsletter 1 April 2006 (text only 37Kb)
PDFNewsletter2 July 2006 (text only 36Kb)
PDF Newsletter3 June 2007 (text only 35Kb)

2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION

PDF Rainforest BMP Overview-1 (text only 181kb) This document refers to and explains the tables and maps in sections 3 and 4 below.
PDF BRMP Background (108Kb) Border Ranges Rainforest Biodiversity Management Plan – pre draft concepts and background information

3 SPECIES DATA

Table 5 Priority Flora (.pdf 616kb)
Table 6 Priority Fauna (.pdf 40kb)
Table 7 Flora Assemblages BMP (.pdf 414kb)
Table 8 Fauna Assemblages BMP (.pdf 1.18Mb)
Table 9 Threat groups activities BMP (.pdf 165kb)
Table 10 Example of threat action table BMP-1 (.pdf 21kb)

4 MAPS

(nb. The planning region has been considered at a number of geographical scales. It is separated into 3 landscapes including Lowland, 0-50 Metres, Midlands 50-600 Metres and Upland > 600 Metres. It has been further divided into precincts and sites. Maps on this Web site indicate what are presently considered the highest priority ‘conserve’ and ‘repair’ layers across the three landscape divisions. The conserve layer comprises the highest conservation value rainforest sites that are currently in very good condition and under relatively low levels of threat. The rationale here will be to ensure they are protected to maintain their current status. The repair layer comprises those very high conservation values sites which are currently under high levels of threat, where management actions are required to help ensure their values are improved and maintained.)