Some of the important reasons for lack of co-operative governance at different administrative levels are the lack of a comprehensive policy and legislative agenda (new initiatives are taken independently by different stakeholders), overlaps and contradictions among the mandates of different government departments and among the national, provincial and municipal levels of government, lack of capacity within many government authorities to implement the legislation and government policies (Du Plessis, 2008, cited in OECD, 2013c), and lack of sufficient financial resources. Australia is an example where the regional authorities have the primary mandate for biodiversity management. Regional government are responsible for creating natural resource management plans based on national frameworks. At the national level, the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council (NRMMC)25 prepared the NBSAP as well as the National Framework for Natural Resource Management Standards and Targets (NRMMC, 2002) to encourage integrated management of land, water and biodiversity on a landscape scale.