Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - SECT 4

Objectives

4. Objectives



(1) The flora and fauna conservation and management objectives are-

   (a)  to guarantee that all taxa of Victoria's flora and fauna other than
        the taxa listed in the Excluded List can survive, flourish and retain
        their potential for evolutionary development in the wild; and

   (b)  to conserve Victoria's communities of flora and fauna; and

   (c)  to manage potentially threatening processes; and

   (d)  to ensure that any use of flora or fauna by humans is sustainable; and

   (e)  to ensure that the genetic diversity of flora and fauna is maintained;
        and

   (f)  to provide programs-

   (i)  of community education in the conservation of flora and fauna; and

   (ii) to encourage co-operative management of flora and fauna through,
        amongst other things, the entering into of land management
        co-operative agreements under the
        Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987; and

   (iii) of assisting and giving incentives to people, including landholders,
        to enable flora and fauna to be conserved; and

   (g)  to encourage the conserving of flora and fauna through co-operative
        community endeavours.

(2) A public authority must be administered so as to have regard to the flora
and fauna conservation and management objectives.