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Auction for Landscape Recovery
Cheryl Gole, WWF-Australia
With input from
Michael Burton, University of WAKristen Williams, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
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Auction for Landscape Recovery
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AUCTION FOR LANDSCAPE RECOVERY
• One of 11 MBI pilots• Conservation auction• Funded by NAPSWQ
• Total $495,000• On-ground funds $200,000 (2 rounds)
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ALR Project Region
12.5% veg (5-21%)
2.3m ha (1.7m)
740 farmers
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NE Wheatbelt, Western Australia
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THE PROJECT
• Research project and field trial
• Objectives• Test two methods of tender evaluation (Environmental
Benefits Index & Systematic Conservation Planning)• Determine minimum information needs• Compare auction & fixed price scheme• Determine economic efficiency
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Auction Design
• Type of auction:• Sealed bid, price discriminating• Two rounds, $200K total• Multiple and joint bids from landholders permitted
• Contract design• Maximum 3 years works contracts• Periodic payments 2-4; activity milestones, with reports• Voluntary Management Agreements or covenants, optional• Contracting agency
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Tender evaluation methods
• Two methods:• ‘Standard’ Environmental Benefits Index (EBI) – site-based scoring
system. Based on Toolkit • Systematic Conservation Planning (SCP) approach
• Operational objective: • Integrated EBI/SCP (make use of both methods to select best set of
tenders)
• Research objective: • What is the relative environmental or conservation achievement
from either tender selection method?
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Environmental Benefits Index
• Native Biodiversity Benefits Index (NBBI)Vegetation or habitat condition (5 attributes)Vegetation or habitat complexity (9 attributes)Landscape context (8 attributes)Conservation significance (4 attributes)
• Other Environmental Benefits Index (OEBI) Soil, salt and water management (6 attributes)Other land management activities (e.g. livestock, fire, weeds,
ferals) (7 attributes)
• Null values where attributes irrelevant (eg hollows in shrubland)• Adapted for project region (eg biodiverse shrublands, granite
outcrops, naturally saline wetlands)
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Systematic Conservation Planning (SCP)
• Structured systematic approach to making decisions about conservation planning
• Used for national reserve selection (Namibia, Costa Rica, PNG)• Based on explicit goals – preferably quantitative, operational targets• Requires clear choices of features used as surrogates• Involves prioritising places available for selection (So does EBI)• But: SCP is: active, iterative, dynamic process (EBI static)• Key principle = complementarity (relative contribution a proposed
place makes to existing protected areas, incl. those on private land)• Uses a selection algorithm that examines complementary value of
each tender
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Weights• Environmental Benefits Index:
• NBBI weighted over OEBI• Within and between attribute groups:
• 4 attribute groups: veg condition, veg complexity, landscape context, conservation significance – weighted equally
• use of ‘null’ values• Normalizing scores before calculating final indices• Attributes and scores summed and normalised within groupings• Area in ha transformed to log base 10• OEBI weighted by 0.5
• SCP: weights through ‘preferences’ (‘look here first’; set by policy)• Threatened or priority fauna/flora• Threatened or priority threatened ecological communities• Indicators of species assemblages (e.g., granite outcrops)• Significant wetlands• Poorly conserved vegetation types• Potential natural diversity recovery catchments• Representative (target) landscapes• High EBI
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Habitat Management Outcome
• Both rounds: MARG (Management Assessment Review Group) – assessed feasibility of on-ground actions in relation to proposed outcomes and objectives
• Round 1: LUCIS
• Round 2: current condition plus management review analysis
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Outcomes: EOIs and tenders
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Round 1 47 38 55 38 10 10
Round 2 25 21 33 21 13 12
EOIs EOI L'holders
Tenders Tender L'holders
Successful Tenders
Successful L'holders
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Outcomes: on-ground inputs
Combined tenders >$194,000
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Round 1 9 4 7 4 2 2 6 6 0 6
Round 2 12 6 10 1 1 4 6 7 1 8
Contracts
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Rabbit control
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Benefit Analysis: ALR R2: EBI perspective
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Benefit Analysis: R2: SCP perspective
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Evaluation: refinements/future research
• Need effective method to assess management benefit/probability of persistence
• Definitions of ‘area of impact’• Assessing benefits for fauna• Challenges with multiple benefits• Managing contracts for compliance issues• ? Others related to comparison
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Results
• 2 rounds are important!
• Efficiency: 2-3 times more efficient than fixed price scheme
• EBI/SCP comparison• EBI useful to ‘groundtruth’ the SCP• Which one???
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