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Escalation of existing pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Risks It is inevitable that the impact of climate change will continue to increase, given current trajectories (see the Drivers and Atmosphere reports). The interaction of climate change with other...
Overview of effectiveness of management of land
2016 Report Content2016 Land Effectiveness of management In 2014, the Caring for our Country and Landcare programs were merged to form the National Landcare Programme, with the aim of streamlining governance processes and coordinating ...
Management context
2016 Report Content2016 Land Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Tasmania Legislative arrangements for the management of public lands continue to be relatively stable, despite flux...
Management initiatives and investments
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Biodiversity funding NRM funding provides key measures that include many practical elements of protecting and sustainably managing biodiversity. For the past 30 years, the...
Overview of effectiveness of management of the marine environment
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Many improvements to management frameworks across Australian and state and territory governments introduced since 2011, including the implementation of new national...
Effectiveness of land management 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceInstitutional arrangements for the management of land have been relatively stable, although there has been considerable investment in reviewing existing strategies and developing new ones. Consolidation of much of the Australian Government’s funding of the National Landcare...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species
2016 Report Content2016 Land Pressures South East Coast South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Bushfire
2016 Report Content2016 Land Pressures Bushfires (wildfires) are uncontrolled fire in the landscape. These particularly affect natural or seminatural vegetation, and have significant positive and negative effects on landscape and...
Box HER33 Indigenous heritage support through white paper on developing northern Australia
2016 Case Study... such as savanna burning, pest and weed management, biosecurity , and tourism ( Campbell 2015 ).
The white paper also raises ...
Pests and invasive species
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Pressures Tasmania Lake Eyre SoE 2011 provided information on the pressure of invasive species, including cane toads (Rhinella marina, formerly Bufo...
Box LAN4 Extinctions due to myrtle rust
2016 Case Study... first time in 2015 ( Pegg et al. 2014 , CRC for Plant Biosecurity 2016 ). Areas most at risk from myrtle rust—the eastern coast of ... for the future is how potential (known or unknown) biosecurity incursions may affect biodiversity conservation , and the ...
Overview of effectiveness of management of the antarctic environment
2016 Report Content... through improved waste treatment and repatriation, greater biosecurity screening of material transported to and from Antarctica, and ...
Box BIO17 FeralScan—connecting communities through citizen science to improve the management of Australia’s worst introduced pest animals
2016 Case Study... managers, community volunteers, Indigenous groups and biosecurity stakeholders across Australia. FeralScan has been running since ...
Marine environment: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Introduction Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef East Coast...
Natural heritage
2016 Report Content2016 Heritage Outlook Murray Darling Timor Sea Great Barrier Reef Antarctica Australia’s natural heritage includes lands...
Availability of information
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures No consistent national-level data are available on the impact of pressures on all aspects of biodiversity in the past 5 years. The Australian Government released a Threatened Species...
Box LAN15 Developing the north
2016 Case Study... Indigenous groups are also well placed to monitor and reduce biosecurity risks across the region—including incursions of exotic species, ...
Land: 2011–16 in context
2016 Report Content2016 Land Introduction North East Coast Tasmania Lake Eyre The past 5 years has seen an ongoing relaxation of the effects of the millennium...
Pressures on natural heritage
2016 Report Content2016 Heritage Pressures Lake Eyre Our terrestrial and marine natural heritage is susceptible to the general pressures arising from climate change outlined above, as well as some of the...
Overview of resilience of the marine environment
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Resilience Great Barrier Reef Marine North Marine North West Marine South East Current...
Preparedness for future pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Heritage Resilience Antarctica The drivers and pressures that threaten Australia’s heritage do so in different ways, leading to different opportunities to prepare for future pressures or...
Box HER45 Macquarie Island pest-eradication project—recovery of significance at a natural heritage place
2016 Case Study... burrowing petrels) and invertebrates, and improved biosecurity measures for Macquarie Island. The project has also developed ...
Outlook for the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe outlook for Australia’s land environment is shaped by the legacy of our former activities, the current and future pressures on the land environment, and how we respond to these pressures. The many consequences of climate change provide the greatest challenges. The challenges...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Land clearing
2016 Report Content2016 Land Pressures Land clearing represents a fundamental pressure on the land environment, causing the loss and fragmentation of native vegetation. Depending on subsequent management, land clearing can also lead to a...
Invasive species are a potent, persistent and widespread threat to Australia’s environment
2016 Report Content2016 Pressures Invasive species are animals, plants, parasites or disease-causing organisms that establish themselves outside their natural range and become pests. Although native species can also become invasive if transferred outside their natural...
Resilience of inland water environments 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceA challenge in assessing resilience of inland water environments is recognising resilience when it occurs, especially because Australian ecosystems have developed to be both resistant and resilient. We can contribute to resilience by reducing extreme and detrimental ecosystem...
Environment protection systems
2016 Report Content2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef...
Management status
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Tasmania National Reserve System and National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Australia has...
Effectiveness of land management
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand Effectiveness of management Human capitalManagement contextResources and capacity for managementHuman capital...
Effectiveness of management for specific pressures and drivers
2016 Report Content2016 Effectiveness of management Earlier, we noted that the complex and dynamic relationships between drivers, pressures, ecosystems and humans call for policies and management actions that address both drivers and pressures. In many cases, the most...
