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CSIRO PROJECT
INCENTIVES FOR REMNANT VEGETATION CONSERVATION by Mr Carl Binning, Senior Research Economist CSIRO
This report forms a part of a larger project being undertaken by CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology which is identifying opportunities for the use of incentive based instruments in the conservation of native remnant vegetation. The project is funded by Environment Australia and the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation.
The report is one of five reports which have been prepared to date that evaluate the role of local government in conserving native vegetation. The other four reports are:
Motivating People: Using management agreements to conserve remnant Vegetation. This report addresses the role of financial incentives and legally binding management agreements in promoting the conservation of native vegetation on private land. It develops a conceptual framework for the project by identifying the situations in which different types of financial incentive can be most effectively used to conserve native vegetation.
Opportunity Denied: Review of the legislative ability of local governments to conserve native vegetation evaluates impediments to local governments using a range of innovative incentive-based instruments. A number of important legislative barriers to local government playing an effective role in native vegetation management are identified. For example, no local government in Australia is able to register conservation agreements with private land holders on title to land. Detailed options for amending existing legislation and policies to allow local governments greater flexibility in the delivery of programs for native vegetation management are identified. These are summarised in Appendix B.
Talking to the Taxman About Nature Conservation: Proposals for the introduction of tax incentives for the protection of high conservation value native vegetation. This report reviews the impact of Commonwealth taxes on the conservation of native vegetation. It is found that conservation activities can in certain circumstances be highly taxed and puts forward proposals to address these situations.
Conservation Hindered: The impact of local government rates and State land taxes on the conservation of native vegetation. This report evaluates existing exemptions from these taxes and the impact of different methods of land valuation'. State and local taxes are shown to have widely varying impacts on conservation activities.
The aim of the project is to address the issue of conserving native vegetation in a way that is relevant and attractive to all spheres of government: Local, State and Commonwealth. It is only with each jurisdiction's active cooperation that the linkages between national policies for the conservation of native vegetation can be integrated with the economic, social and environmental interests of local communities.
Enquiries: Carl Binning CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology GPO Box 284 CANBERRA ACT 2601 Phone: (02) 6242 1671 Fax: (02) 6242 1555 Email: c.binning@dwe.csiro.au
