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Abstract:

The current pastoral leases in WA are only for the purpose of grazing livestock. New

tenures post 2015 may allow a wide range of land uses including livestock production,

carbon offsets, biodiversity offsets and cultural uses. The challenge will be to

integrate these new land uses into pastoral properties so as to capture the synergies

from multiple enterprises in ways that strengthens the economic, environmental and

social resilience of the rangelands. The ESRM process is being used to develop

several stations in the Pilbara as pilots to demonstrate a new vision of land use that

creates value from cattle production, carbon offsets, natural biodiversity and

traditional indigenous culture.