Nature conservation

Native vegetation

Brigalow and Nandewar Integrated Forestry Operations Approval

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The Government's Brigalow and Nandewar resource and conservation decision committed around 350,000 hectares of land in Western NSW to extensive new conservation reserves and provided certainty for timber operations and timber dependent communities across the region to 2025.

To give effect to the Government's decision, the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) and the Department of Industry and Investment (Forests NSW and Fisheries) jointly developed an Integrated Forestry Operations Approval (IFOA) (BrigalowNandewarIFOA.pdf, 1605kb)  for the Brigalow Nandewar region.

The IFOA commenced on 23 October 2010 and has effect up to and including 31 December 2025. The IFOA forms part of the Community Conservation Area Agreement (CCA Agreement) which was approved by the Minister for Climate Change and Environment and the Minister for Primary Industries on 11 June 2009.

More about the Brigalow and Nandewar IFOA

  • The IFOA balances protection of the environment with the Government's commitment to specified volumes of saw log, fencing and firewood and the operational restrictions that exist in the Brigalow and Nandewar Region.
  • It provides a framework for forestry operations, including regulatory regimes for environmental planning and assessment, for the protection of the environment and for threatened species conservation.
  • The IFOA applies to Zone 4 lands (Forestry, Recreation and Mineral Extraction) and other Crown-timber lands within the Community Conservation Area.
  • Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals are established under the Forestry and National Park Estate Act 1998 . 

 

Page last updated: 27 February 2011