Welcome to Strategic Environment Solutions

Our Mission Statement

Provide a service that assists consumers achieve sustainable outcomes profiting both the environment and business.
Strategic Environment Solutions is a collaboration of  consultants offereing a variety of skills to the Natural Resource Management Industry. These skills range from preparation of Strategic documents, NRM marketing to Webdesign/production.

The Draft Glenelg Hopkins CMA MER strategy

One of our latest projects has been The Draft Glenelg Hopkins CMA MER strategy
This strategy outlines the processes the region will undertake to monitor, evaluate and report (MER) on actions of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA. It shows how the MER processes provide sufficient information to determine the efficiency, effectiveness and appropriateness of actions. This strategy also details Resource Condition Targets and baselines, RMAT’s and Sustainability Indicators, as well as detail how the data for measuring these is gathered, stored and communicated. Finally the strategy identifies gaps in processes and sets timeframes for filling the gaps. The Glenelg Hopkins CMA MER Strategy is due for release soon and can be viewed on their website www.glenelg-hopkins.vic.gov.au

The Glenelg Hopkins CMA landcare plan (2006-2012)
In 2006 SES prepared the draft Glenelg Hopkins CMA Regional Landcare Support Plan. The Plan builds on past great works by defining what has been done well and can continue to be done, and the new things that will occur from this point on.
The Plan is laid out to follow this theme with sections that;

  • Reflect on what has already achieved (learning from the past)
  • Discuss how things are currently done (evaluating where we are at present)
  • Describe what is intend to be done for the next five years (learning from past to plan for the future)

The Glenelg Hopkins CMA landcare plan (2006-2012) is due for release early 2007 and can be viewed on their website www.glenelg-hopkins.vic.gov.au

Friends of the Glenelg River
We have designed a logo and calender including an informative website for Friends of the Glenelg River:
Friends of the Glenelg River

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The Red-tail Black-Cockatoo website has also had a makeover in the leadup to the recent Melbourne Commonwealth Games.

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Karak, mascot of the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games, is a red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii graptogyne), an endangered Australian southeastern subspecies distinguished by its small size, brightly colored females and specialised feeding and breeding needs.
The name Karak comes from the bird's distinctive birdcall. Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games information says Karak was chosen because the bird embodies the spirit of the Games: uniquely Australian and welcoming to all, its gregarious nature and rugged good looks making Karak the "perfect mascot to unite city and bush."

Fewer than 1000 birds

In Victoria, the red-tailed black cockatoo is found from Portland in the southeast to just north of the Little Desert. In South Australia it is found from Bangham-Frances to Mt Gambier.
The current population is estimated to be around 700 to 1000 birds. Last year, 86 volunteers counted no more than 736 southeastern red-tailed black cockatoos in the region.

Tree-planting program

The future of this cockatoo depends on trees since the bird feeds almost entirely on the seeds of brown stringybarks and bulokes. Since settlement, 60 per cent of stringybarks and 98 per cent of bulokes have been cleared for agriculture.
The Commonwealth Games Environment Program has added a new tree-planting site 10 kilometres out of Casterton, northeast of Mt Gambier and west northwest of Melbourne.