Project Update September 2023

DRAFT Environment Strategy Open for Feedback

The DRAFT Environment Strategy 2023-2033 is now open for comment. You can view the draft strategy and provide your feedback in the Feedback Forum or Feedback Survey before September 30 2023.

We all have a role to play in protecting and nurturing our environment and shaping our future Mandurah. The strategy has been developed collaboratively through:

1. Review of work we already do in the space and previous community consultation

2. Consultation with Elected Members and City staff

3. Targeted engagement with environmental volunteers, community groups and advisory groups

4. Engagement with partner environmental, government and non-government organisations

5. Whole community consultation during September 2023

This consultation to date has helped us develop a strategy that meets the vision of our community for "a healthy and diverse natural environment where walk softly on our Mandjoogoordap". This strategy sets out a number of key management actions that fall under themes drawn from the community narrative in the City's Strategic Community Plan (2020-2040) and encourages us to work collaboratively across management areas.

OUR THEMES:

Built in nature, not on nature

• Enhancing biodiversity and prioritising local, native species
• Enhancement of green spaces
• Urban Canopy
• Sustainable Transport Networks
• Drainage and Water Sensitive Urban Design
• Water quality

Woven by waterways:

• Coastal and foreshore management
• Enhancement of blue spaces
• Estuarine Ecology

Lead and serve in equal measures:

• Water Security
• Waste minimisation and management
• Renewable energy and mitigation
• Corporate energy and water efficiency
• Sustainable Buildings and Operations
• Ecotourism

Stewards of the environment, custodians of our culture:

• Aboriginal Culture
• Environmental volunteering and capacity building
• Environmental literacy and sustainable living
• Engaging young people
• Litter and illegal dumping

We have also created three environmental constants which are concepts that should be considered across everything we do and are embedded across every theme and priority management area.

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTANTS:

Climate Change

• Adaptation and resilience
• Risk Management
• Future thinking

Engagement and Education

• Collaboration andcommunication
• Open to feedback
• Willing to adapt
• Advocacy

Corporate Responsibility

• Evidence-based
• Continuous improvement
• Integrated and holistic planning