The 'Coastal Zone' is home to many of Australia's environmental woes with some 85 per cent of Australians living near the coast. Conflicts between development and conservation crop up regularly as residential and tourist pressures grow. The 'Coastal Zone Project' was launched with a broad aim of developing a better understanding of how various elements of the coastal zone work and especially how they interact.
A spatial decision-support system has been developed to help land managers conserve native fauna at Nadgee Nature Reserve near Eden, NSW. The system draws on the Land Use Planning and Information System (LUPIS). The application of LUPIS is one of the first temperate-forest based decision support systems to focus on ecological and fauna management. The decision-support system also takes some of the guesswork out of fire management, enabling managers to 'design' fires for achieving specific ecological outcomes. The Nadgee application provides a basis for managing six ground fauna species: the red-necked wallaby, eastern grey kangaroo, swamp wallaby, long-nosed potoroo, ground parrot, and the eastern bristle-bird.
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