Our Vision

The Mallee Regional Catchment Strategy is based on the vision of:
Healthy and resilient landscapes being cared for by connected communities.

Vision statements are also identified for each of the Regional Catchment Strategy themes to help look beyond our immediate work programs and practical tasks; reminding us of where we are going and what we want to achieve.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is healthy, resilient and valued

Waterways

Waterways are healthy, resilient, and being managed for shared benefits

Agricultural Land

Agricultural land is managed to optimise productive capacity, while avoiding or minimising environmental impacts

Culture and Heritage

Aboriginal culture and heritage is protected and Traditional Owner led practices are embedded in the management and healing of Country

Community Capacity for NRM

Connected and resilient communities leading positive change across our natural, cultural and productive landscapes

Long (20-year) and medium-term (6-year) outcome targets are detailed for each theme in Section 3 to provide a means by which RCS contributions can be measured (e.g. effectiveness, impact) at the whole-of-region scale.

Management targets are set at the Local Area (landscape) scale to identify the integrated actions to be delivered over the life of this RCS that will collectively provide for progress against desired outcomes for the region.

Delivery against the RCS’s long, medium and short-term goals is underpinned by several guiding principles, specifically that:

  • Community engagement and the involvement of land managers is crucial to the effective implementation of management actions
  • Prevention of ecosystem damage and species’ decline is more cost-effective than rehabilitation and recovery efforts
  • Decision making should be based on the best available knowledge and decision support tools, however action should not be avoided solely due to lack of scientific certainty
  • Decision making should recognise interactions between natural, cultural and productive assets; and that the management of one component can impact (positively or negatively) on others
  • To achieve widespread and sustained improvements in our natural, cultural and productive landscapes; actions should also deliver social and economic benefits to the community
  • Actions should be planned at the appropriate spatial and temporal scales, while also recognising resourcing expectations
  • Planned actions should be flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances and/or knowledge. A collated list of the vision, long-term outcome targets, and medium-term outcome targets established by this RCS are provided in Appendix 1.