The Rangelands NRM Regional Plan presents important information about environmental ‘assets’ in the WA rangelands. It provides clear direction to Rangelands NRM to strategically guide investment in managing our most highly valued natural assets. The ‘asset-based’ approach focuses on specific places in the landscape places that physically exist and can be pinpointed on a map, such as a wetland, a land-system, a vegetation community, an animal or its habitat. These ‘assets’ are the things we hope to protect, improve or manage better through integrated project management.

Assets are presented according to their scale and relative level of importance in the context of the whole of the region in order to more easily allow investment that considers a variety of values and scales. In addition, a number of priority areas at the sub-regional level have been identified because at this point in time, they reflect what is needed to conserve special areas, nurture enthusiasm and community capacity involvement while addressing threatening processes

The plan was developed by directly asking community members, technical experts and NRM stakeholders through workshops, to locate on a map and describe environmental, cultural, or economic assets using the Investment Framework for Environmental Resources (INFFER) process.

Contact Rangelands NRM if you want more information about the Regional Plan.