Argyle NaturePlus™ Native Vegetation Restoration.

Native Vegetation Asset Account.

Environmental Account: AU00019
Environmental Asset: Native Vegetation
Asset Account ID: AU00018V1
Registration date: 9 December 2021
Certification date: 23 September 2023
Certification level: Independent Audit
Purpose: Monitor and track improvement in environmental asset condition
Current land use: Beef grazing enterprise
Area: 5,364 ha
Method: AfN-METHOD-NV-03

Technical Report

Asset Account snapshot.

Asset summary.

The baseline certification for this Asset used historic data as approved under the Accounting for Nature® Standard.

Asset statement.

9 December 2021 - Registration date
26 September 2023 - Certification Date
7 November 2024 - Annual Certification Compliance Report (ACCR)
No significant event or material change in land use was reported or identified.

Significant outcomes.

The overall Econd® score shows slight increase across the Account area during the monitoring period. This result was underpinned by a notable increase in recruitment and progressive increase in the amount (i.e. basal area) and diversity (i.e. richness) of established trees and shrubs.

Limitations & disclosures.

Scope - This is a project scale assessment based on a targeted assessment of native vegetation condition within the environmental accounting area. As such, the condition of this Asset is expected to be representative within the Account area only and not the entire property.

Stratification - Vegetation Classes were delineated using the mapping product and were not ground-truthed, validated or modified.

Data Collection - Non-native cover was not directly assessed in the field during the baseline survey (2015). Instead non-native cover was assessed from visual inspection of photographs at photopoints. Non-native cover for all plots was assessed to be 0 which was the same as directly assessed in the field during the subsequent monitoring survey.

Seasonal timing of data collection for this report differed between the 2015 Account and the 2022 Account. An effort will be made to align the data collection season in for future certification, also noting that AfN-METHOD-NV-03 does not include indicators for ground cover or species richness of perennial grasses, forbs or other growth forms that are expected to be disproportionately influenced by seasonal or fluctuating environmental conditions.

Site context was defined using the best available spatial mapping of native vegetation extent for NSW developed under the NSW Vegetation Extent program (version 1.2 - 5m Raster). This spatial product is not currently available as a time series.