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Our goal is to prepare a plan to set the future direction for programs to protect, restore and manage nature in Greater Geelong through to 2030.
The plan is informed by an analysis of the current state of Geelong's nature and will include a new strategic policy framework, action plan and monitoring program. It will focus on promoting nature on private and City managed land across the municipality. Nature on Crown Land managed by Parks Victoria and committees of management and adjoining municipalities will also be referenced.
The State of Nature (SoN) report is being prepared to inform our Plan for Nature and provide benchmark information to enable changes to be assessed over time.
Six score cards have been prepared for landscape areas across the Greater Geelong: Barwon Plain, Basalt Plains, Bellarine, Geelong Cities, Little River Catchment and Northern Uplands (refer Figure 1: SoN Landscape Areas and see individual summary reports above).
The landscape areas have been selected as they align with with the Corangamite Catchment Management Authority Regional Catchment Strategy and Melbourne Water management area. As the score cards are complete, they will be uploaded on this Have Your Say Page.
The City is part of Wadawurrung country, a geographically diverse region, encompassing three natural bioregions, the Victorian Volcanic Plain, the Central Victorian Uplands and the Otway Plains. The region comprises a variety of habitats associated with marine and coastal environments, waterways and wetlands, woodlands and grasslands and lowland forests, providing niches for a rich diversity of animals, plants and fungi.
Since European settlement there has been extensive change to this natural environment. In the City’s first Biodiversity Strategy in 2003 it was estimated that only five per cent of former vegetation exists in the City and that which remains is often severely degraded.
Since that time the City’s native vegetation, habitat and biodiversity continues to be under extreme pressure from threats associated with climate change, population growth and changes to land use in both rural and urban areas. Aside from some areas secured in nature reserves, most nature areas are small, fragmented and isolated, and the number of plants, animals and vegetation communities that are threatened is increasing. Impacts from pest plants and animals and a range of factors continue to degrade nature.
Within this challenging space the City has committed to renewing its plan for nature, to build resilience and set in place a program to protect, restore and manage the regions nature by 2030.
The preparation of the plan has five components:
Guiding Principles for the new Plan for Nature
The plan supports the 30-year community vision of the Greater Geelong: A Clever and Creative Future for the
Greater Geelong region which recognises the uniqueness and significance of our natural environments.
The plan is a key action of the City’s Sustainability Framework 2020.
The development of the plan will achieve a key target identified in the City’s Environment Strategy 2020 – 2030 to review and update the Biodiversity Strategy (now called the Plan for Nature) by 2021 and to meet the goal of protecting, restoring and managing the regions biodiversity by 2030.
Wildflowers Photo: Reg Ryan
Your feedback is important to us. Please have your say through one or more of the options below.
Feedback closed at 5pm 16 January, 2023.
Take our short survey to help inform our Plan for Nature.
Tell us your idea to help protect, restore or manage nature across the Greater Geelong.
Show us your favourite image - drawing or photo, across Greater Geelong
Visit one, two or three of the maps and drop a marker to show us where your three most favourite places to enjoy nature are located.
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We Acknowledge the Wadawurrung People as the Traditional Owners of the Land, Waterways and Skies. We pay our respects to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We Acknowledge all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are part of our Greater Geelong community today.
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