Reasons For The Agreement

The Owner is participating in this Agreement:

1. In recognition of the Earth as a self-healing organism, and with the intention to facilitate this healing process in as non-interventionist way as possible.

2. In recognition that the native non-human life of the land has as much claim to it as the human owners.

3. In accordance with the principle that in our role as stewards of this land, it is imperative that we respect the significance it holds for Aboriginal people.

4. To provide an example to encourage other private landholders in conservation initiatives on a wider scale.

5. To support biodiversity and acknowledge that people are dependent on and cannot survive without healthy ecosystems.

Purpose Of The Agreement 

To protect and maintain the biodiversity in the Conservation Area and surrounding area, and in particular to:

• Protect forest biodiversity and habitat for native plants and fauna within the Conservation Area;

• promote natural regeneration and recovery of the forest environment where it has been degraded by former practices (e.g. logging and grazing) and to enable fauna to re-occupy these areas;

• promote public interest in the need for wildlife conservation values;

• protect habitat of species identified as being endangered and vulnerable under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995;

• protect water quality and riparian values by conserving native vegetation adjacent to the water courses on the property;

• provide a wildlife corridor link with Budawang National Park;

• recognise that the Conservation Area is an integral part of an overall land management plan integrating sustainable land use and conservation; 

• preserve Aboriginal and historic non- Aboriginal sites;

• encourage and support Aboriginal people to access their traditional land;

• preserve the integrity of the land and further the concept of the Owner as guardian of the land within a legal framework that represents the interests of non-human nature as a partner and as the originator of ecological projects in the land that must be respected; and

• to prevent road-building, pipeline building, commercial logging or woodchipping of any kind, inappropriate building, burning and other destructive activities.