ABSTRACT
Nature conservation planning aims to maintain biodiversity and the processes that support healthy ecosystems and sustainable human communities. Planning at the landscape level is primarily concerned with maintaining landscape elements and connections that underpin landscape function and resilience. Planning at the property level uses educative, voluntary and regulatory mechanisms to maintain conservation values in tandem with primary land uses. Planning for conservation reserves aims to establish an effective and representative system of reserves to provide the core of nature conservation efforts. Collectively these planning approaches ensure biodiversity and landscape function are sustained in a broader land use planning framework.
