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Environmental Management Plan for Cockburn Sound and its Catchment

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The Cockburn Sound Management Council is happy to announce the release of the Environmental Management Plan for Cockburn Sound and its Catchment (EMP).

The Minister for the Environment has approved the Plan in conjunction with the release of the State Environmental (Cockburn Sound) Policy.

The Environmental Management Plan details a five point plan of action towards implementing the State Environmental Policy and coordinating environmental management and planning of Cockburn Sound and its Catchment.

  1. Protecting the Environmental Values of Cockburn Sound.
  2. Facilitating Multiple Use of Cockburn Sound and its foreshore.
  3. Integrating management of the land and marine environments.
  4. Coordinating research and investigations.
  5. Monitoring and reporting on performance.

Click here to download a copy of the Environmental Management Plan.

To download the State Environmental Policy and related documents please visit the Department of Environment Website.


Related Documents:
  
A Survey of Selected Seagrass Meadows in the Fremantle – Warnbro Sound Region 2005
This document reports on the results from the 2005 assessment and focuses on temporal changes at each monitoring site.
Environmental Management Plan for Cockburn Sound and its Catchment
In response to increasing pressures on the Sound, the Western Australian Government released a State Enviromental Policy which outlines the environmental values, objectives and criteria for managing Cockburn Sound. The Policy requires that an Environmental Management Plan for Cockburn Sound and its catchment be prepared by the Cockburn Sound Management Council.
Environmental Quality Criteria Reference Document for Cockburn Sound (2003 - 2004)
A supporting document to the State Environmental(Cockburn Sound) Policy 2005
Manual of Standard Operating Procedures for Environmental Monitoring against the Cockburn Sound Environmental Quality Criteria (2003 - 2004)
A supporting document to the State Environmental (Cockburn Sound) Policy 2005
State Environmental (Cockburn Sound) Policy 2005
This policy establishes the basis on which Cockburn Sound and the environment of adjacent land is to be protected.

 

 

 
 
 
 

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