{"id":5053,"date":"2020-08-13T06:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T06:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mli.org.au\/?p=5053"},"modified":"2020-08-13T06:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T06:34:43","slug":"managing-biodiversity-in-cotton-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/managing-biodiversity-in-cotton-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Managing Biodiversity in Cotton Landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cottoninfo.com.au\/managing-biodiversity-cotton-landscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"new section of the CottonInfo website (opens in a new tab)\">new section of the CottonInfo website<\/a> provides biodiversity information for every Local Government Area (LGA) in Australian cotton growing regions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The information included for each LGA includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Relative areas &#8211; Area of cotton landscape; Area of remnant vegetation in the cotton landscape; Area of threatened ecological communities in the cotton landscape; and Area of priority zones for native vegetation restoration and enhancement<\/li><li>Vegetation &#8211; Main vegetation types on cotton properties; and Main threatened ecological communities on cotton properties<\/li><li>Wetlands and rivers &#8211; Named wetlands in the cotton landscape; Area of wetlands in the cotton landscape; Length of major rivers in the cotton landscape; Length of minor water courses in the cotton landscape<\/li><li>Public land &#8211; Area of national park in the cotton landscape; Area of travelling stock routes in the cotton landscape;\u00a0Area of state forests in the cotton landscape<\/li><li>Threatened species (plants and animals) &#8211; Examples of iconic species in the cotton landscape; Examples of threatened species in the cotton landscape<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each LGA also has a list of general management actions, along with priority management actions for that region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This biodiversity data for cotton growing regions has been collated to help understand and prioritise the conservation value of areas of native vegetation within cotton landscapes (cotton farms plus a 5km buffer). It has also identified priority areas and management actions to help restore these areas for the benefit of threatened and iconic species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cottoninfo.com.au\/managing-biodiversity-cotton-landscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"View the searchable map and associated information on the CottonInfo website. (opens in a new tab)\">View the searchable map and associated information on the CottonInfo website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new section of the CottonInfo website provides biodiversity information for every Local Government Area (LGA) in Australian cotton growing regions. The information included for each LGA includes: Relative areas &#8211; Area of cotton landscape; Area of remnant vegetation in the cotton landscape; Area of threatened ecological communities in the cotton landscape; and Area of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[103,196],"class_list":["post-5053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biodiversity","tag-cropping","pmpro-has-access","category-81","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5053\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}