Supporting local governments to make smart conservation decisions

Noosa Shire Council are environmental innovators - utilising their own environment fund to support the acquisition and management of a Council-led protected area network that supports that of the State and Federal reserve system. Kuril & Currawong were contracted to complete a spatial analysis and build a GIS dashboard to aggregate locally and state-held data about ecosystems, threatened species and ecological processes. In the process, we reviewed and assisted in the construction of revised protected area strategies for the Shire at a time of major strategic development.

We supported this project by:

• Reviewing key Noosa environmental documents and strategies, highlighting alignments and gaps, and aligning them into a revised Conservation Land Plan to support the delivery of the new Environment Strategy

• Hosting workshops with Councillors and Kabi Kabi Traditional Owners to identify key values for the Shire and how the Plan could support their conservation and restoration

• Delivering a Technical Report and high-level public-facing summary to communicate the main findings and outcomes for the revised Conservation Land Plan

• Build a custom-made ESRI Dashboard to host all data and provide ‘one-stop-shop’ property profiles to Noosa Council staff reducing technical barriers needed to interrogate spatial data supporting the Plan

Kabi Kabi Country