Description: The Nature Repair Act 2023 (the Act), which took effect on 15 December 2023, establishes a framework for a world-first, legislated national voluntary biodiversity market. The Act provides rules to support transparency and integrity, fostering collaborative efforts to address environmental decline.The Nature Repair Market scheme is a government initiative aimed at incentivising actions to restore and protect the environment. It encourages land management practices that are nature-positive, delivering improved biodiversity outcomes. The scheme creates a marketplace where individuals and organisations can undertake nature repair projects to generate tradable certificates.This proposed dataset provides spatial data representing eligibility areas where biodiversity projects can be established under the scheme. Boundaries for each specific method are delineated and defined by approved methodology determinations under the scheme.The spatial data outlines the eligible regions within which projects under each method can be registered.
Copyright Text: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
Name: Replanting Native Forest and Woodland Ecosystems Method Eligible Regions
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Description: The Nature Repair Act 2023 (the Act), which took effect on 15 December 2023, establishes a framework for a world-first, legislated national voluntary biodiversity market. The Act provides clear rules to ensure transparency and integrity, fostering collaboration to address environmental decline.The Nature Repair Market scheme is a government initiative designed to incentivise actions that restore and protect the environment, promoting land management practices that improve biodiversity. This scheme creates a marketplace where individuals and organisations can undertake nature repair projects to generate tradable certificates.This dataset represents the proposed eligible areas, defined as a subset of IBRA subregions, where biodiversity projects can be established under the Nature Repair (Replanting Native Forest and Woodland Ecosystems) methodology determination. These subregions include landscapes with intensive historical land use, where native vegetation has often been cleared or thinned. Remaining vegetation in these areas is frequently degraded by forestry and agriculture, impacted by pests and weeds, and affected by low levels of ecological connectivity.
Copyright Text: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.