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Eastern Cape York Water Quality Improvement Plan - Appendix 9: Water quality guidelines for fresh and estuarine waters of Eastern Cape York

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Under the Eastern Cape York Water Quality Improvement Plan one of the intended outcomes was to produce a set of guidelines that addresses Aquatic Ecosystem Protection for both the fresh and estuarine surface water bodies of the region. This Appendix (Appendix 9) addresses the need for those guidelines.

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Eastern Cape York Water Quality Improvement Plan - Appendix 10: Risk assessment of degraded water quality to ecosystems

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This risk assessment was developed to help gain scientifically accurate information regarding the land-based pollutants which pose the biggest threat to coral reefs and sea grass beds in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR).

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Eastern Cape York Water Quality Improvement Plan - Appendix 11: Adoption and economic implications of grazing management practice changes

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This appendix provides a practical and economic assessment of various natural resource management methods developed to improve grazing practices on the Cape.

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Eastern Cape York Water Quality Improvement Plan - Appendix 12: Environmental-economic values of marine and coastal natural assets

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The importance of the natural environment can be expresssed in terms of its values: ecologoical, socio-cultural, and economic. Assigning monetary value to goods and services provided by ecosystems can be a great way ensure that the environment is carefully considered during regional planning processes.

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Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy: Natural Resource Analysis Program: Environmental Regions of Cape York Peninsula

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The Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) was established as a program in the Commonwealth Environment Portfolio in 1989 to provide geographically related environmental inormation required for planning and decision making.

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Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy: Land Use Program: Services and Infrastructure of Cape York Peninsula

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This report which compromises an aspect of the CYPLUS reporting gives an overview of the social structure and inherit obstacles in the way of community growth on the Cape York Peninsula.

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Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy: Natural Resources Analysis Program: Fauna Distribution Modelling for Cape York Peninsula

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This project report was published in 1995 as part of the CYPLUS reporting. It's pirpose was to make information of the fauna of the Cape York Peninsula readily available to those who required it or may require it in the future.

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Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy: Land Use Program: An Assessment of the Conservation and Natural Heritage Significance of Cape York Peninsula

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This report both details the distribution of particular conservation values across the Cape York Peninsula and also acts as a guide for the 40 GIS layers created during the CYPLUS conservation assessment. This was seen to eventually allow members of the public to focus on a specific location within the GIS such as their pastoral property.

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Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy: Land Use Program: Values, Needs and Aspirations Study of Cape York Peninsula

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This study was undertaken between July 1994 and Janurary 1995 as a project within the Land use Program of CYPLUS.

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Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy: Natural Resources Analysis Program: Vegetation Survey and Mapping of Cape York Peninsula

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This report summarises information about the structure, floristic composition, and areal extent of the present vegetation on the Cape York Peninsula in 1994. In the report 21 structural formations in flora were recofnised, with woodland and its various subsidiaries being the most common and widespread formation.

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