ensure workers are appropriately trained in the use of relevant herbicides and pesticides, best methods (for example, spot spraying, wiping, stem injection) and what to target; avoid chemical spray drift and off-target damage within or near to the ecological community, having regard to minimum buffer zones. COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT Education, information and regulation Develop information products and signage to help local communities, planners and managers recognise: when the ecological community is present and why it is important to protect it; how to appropriately manage patches of the ecological community; and responsibilities under state and local regulations and the EPBC Act. Promote knowledge about local weeds, means to control these and appropriate alternative species to plant. Liaise with Indigenous people with traditional knowledge of tuart woodlands and forests, to encourage conservation of this knowledge and where appropriate, sharing and use of the knowledge in protection and management of the ecological community. Create signage recognising Indigenous cultural values in important patches of the ecological community. Develop education programmes to discourage damaging activities such as the removal of dead timber, the dumping of rubbish (particularly garden waste),sale and use of weeds (e.g. Arum lily) in local nurseries, nearby gardens and landscaping creation of informal paths, and the use of off-road vehicles in patches of the ecological community. to traditional owners with experience in fire management and ecological responses. Provide land managers with information about managing fire for the benefit of the ecological community. Liaise with local fire management authorities and agencies and engage their support in fire management of the ecological community. Request these agencies to use suitable maps and install field markers to avoid damage to the ecological community. Ensure land managers have the most useful information about managing fire and weeds for the benefit of threatened species and ecological communities. Encourage local participation in recovery efforts, removing threats and actively restoring existing patches, as well as supplementing these. This may be achieved by setting up recovery teams with appropriate expert and local participants; adoption of patches by local conservation groups; or encouraging short term involvement through field days and planting projects, with appropriate follow-up. Ensure planners and participants are of appropriate species to plant across the range of the ecological community, the best opportunities to restore landscape connectivity and encourage natural regeneration and the best known techniques for the site conditions and species being planted. Ensure commitment to follow-up after planting, such as care of newly planted vegetation by watering, mulching, weeding and use and removal of tree guards.
ensure workers are appropriately trained in the use of relevant herbicides and pesticides, best methods (for example, spot spraying, wiping, stem injection) and what to target; avoid chemical spray drift and off-target damage within or near to the ecological community, having regard to minimum buffer zones. COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT Education, information and regulation Develop information products and signage to help local communities, planners and managers recognise: when the ecological community is present and why it is important to protect it; how to appropriately manage patches of the ecological community; and responsibilities under state and local regulations and the EPBC Act. Promote knowledge about local weeds, means to control these and appropriate alternative species to plant. Liaise with Indigenous people with traditional knowledge of tuart woodlands and forests, to encourage conservation of this knowledge and where appropriate, sharing and use of the knowledge in protection and management of the ecological community. Create signage recognising Indigenous cultural values in important patches of the ecological community. Develop education programmes to discourage damaging activities such as the removal of dead timber, the dumping of rubbish (particularly garden waste),sale and use of weeds (e.g. Arum lily) in local nurseries, nearby gardens and landscaping creation of informal paths, and the use of off-road vehicles in patches of the ecological community. to traditional owners with experience in fire management and ecological responses. Provide land managers with information about managing fire for the benefit of the ecological community. Liaise with local fire management authorities and agencies and engage their support in fire management of the ecological community. Request these agencies to use suitable maps and install field markers to avoid damage to the ecological community. Ensure land managers have the most useful information about managing fire and weeds for the benefit of threatened species and ecological communities. Encourage local participation in recovery efforts, removing threats and actively restoring existing patches, as well as supplementing these. This may be achieved by setting up recovery teams with appropriate expert and local participants; adoption of patches by local conservation groups; or encouraging short term involvement through field days and planting projects, with appropriate follow-up. Ensure planners and participants are of appropriate species to plant across the range of the ecological community, the best opportunities to restore landscape connectivity and encourage natural regeneration and the best known techniques for the site conditions and species being planted. Ensure commitment to follow-up after planting, such as care of newly planted vegetation by watering, mulching, weeding and use and removal of tree guards.
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