Queensland Consolidated Acts

VEGETATION MANAGEMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 9

9 What is vegetation management

(1)
"Vegetation management" is the management of vegetation in a way that achieves the purpose of this Act.

(2) For subsection (1) , the management of vegetation may include, for example, the following—

(a) the retention or maintenance of vegetation to—

(i) avoid land degradation; or

(ii) maintain or increase biodiversity; or

(iii) maintain ecological processes;

(b) the retention of riparian vegetation;

(c) the retention of vegetation clumps or corridors.