Lantana (Lantana camara L.)

2.9 Indigenous engagement and land management

Large areas of land that are either prone to invasion by lantana or have existing infestations are managed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island groups. Therefore, effective engagement and coordination practices must be used to promote strategic management of lantana in these regions in a culturally sensitive manner.

In addition, it is vital to ensure that Indigenous cultural heritage values are maintained on country managed by non-Indigenous land managers. All states and territories have legislation in place to protect areas and objects of significance to Indigenous people. Duty-of-care provisions require that people conducting activities in areas of significance must take all reasonable and practical measures to avoid harming cultural heritage.

As highlighted in the draft document ‘Principles for engaging Indigenous peoples in managing pest and disease incursions’ produced by the National Biosecurity Committee, Indigenous communities have both an interest and contribution to make in managing pest incursions on Country, and this should be recognised and respected. Further detail is provided in the document, but the overarching principles are:

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  relevant parties and their rights should be identified
  
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  mechanisms should be established to engage Indigenous peoples
  
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  values of all parties should be addressed
  
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  governments should promote an understanding of incursion management
  
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  capacity to manage disease and pest incursions needs to be considered
  
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  Indigenous peoples should be involved in preparedness, planning and response activities.
  

2.10 Relevance to other strategies

Scale	Natural resource management	Pest management	Weed species management
National	Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia’s Biological Diversity 2010 Native Vegetation Policy 2001 National Strategy for Ecologically Sustainable Development 1992	The Australian Weeds Strategy 2007 Weeds of National Significance Biological Control Act 1984 Caring for our Country Business Plan	Weeds of National Significance strategic plan
State	State biodiversity and natural resource management strategies Forest policies	State agency pest management plans	New South Wales Lantana Biological Control Task Force
Regional	Regional natural resource management plans	Regional pest management strategies	Specific weed control plans (New South Wales)
Catchment	Catchment management strategies	Integrated crop management pest management strategies
Local	Landcare plans Conservation corridor plans Riparian vegetation management plans Bushcare plans	Local government pest management plans (Queensland)	Local weed control plans (New South Wales)
Property	Property management plans National parks management plans (Northern Territory)	Property pest management plans National park weed management strategies	Property weed management plans

3 Strategic goals

Appropriate actions to achieve these goals and objectives are outlined in Sections 3.1–3.3. Many of the actions will enable progress towards multiple objectives. Thus, all activities should be undertaken in light of the overall program and should address all relevant goals when possible.

Containment lines and management priorities are illustrated on the National Lantana Management Map (Appendix 2).

A program logic diagram (see Section 5) was developed by the NLMG to show the relationship between the strategic actions and the objectives and goals they achieve.

A phase three monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement (MERI) table has been included (Section 5). This level of reporting will be required by the Australian Weeds Committee (AWC) to monitor the ongoing delivery of the plan.