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Land managed for conservation has expanded

2016
Land
Key Finding

2016  Both the private and public conservation estate has expanded. The area owned and managed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities has also increased, although it is often in very remote areas and may not be managed solely for conservation.  

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Box HER42 Western Australian Goldfields Water Supply Scheme—conserving and interpreting a National Heritage place

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... Heritage Trail experience and, along with the active conservation of heritage places, sets it apart from many ... delivery options, mitigate risk, continue ongoing conservation works, and refresh the marketing and promotion ...
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Reducing the impact of feral predators is an essential action for the conservation of Australian fauna

2016
Biodiversity
Key Finding

2016Feral cats and foxes are key pressures that have contributed to the population decline of small mammals in northern Australia and lack of recovery of these mammals in southern Australia. The interaction between feral cat predation and fire regimes is now known to be particularly...

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Figure BIO14 Number of fauna species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, 2011 and 2015

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Graph

Number of EPBC Act listed fauna species in 2011 and 2015 Number of EPBC Act listed fauna species in 2011 and 2015 Mammal Conservation dependentVulnerableEndangeredCritically endangered 2011055354 2015058386 Bird Conservation...

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Figure BIO2 Pressures affecting species listed as nationally threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

2016
Biodiversity
Pressures
Graph

Pressures affecting species listed as threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act Pressures affecting species listed as threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act Proportion of EPBC listed...

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Figure BIO15 Number of plant species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, 2011 and 2015

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Graph

Number of plant species listed in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in 2011 and 2015 Number of plant species listed in the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act in 2011 and 2015 20112015 Critically...

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Conservation of Australia’s heritage is a shared responsibility that requires collaborative, innovative partnerships between government, corporations and the community

2016
Heritage
Key Finding

2016Heritage is a public ‘good’ that contributes to local communities and the economy, and therefore warrants a collaborative approach. Governments at all levels contribute through identifying, protecting and regulating heritage, by managing many significant heritage places, and by...

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Figure BIO9 Distribution of listed ecological communities in Australia under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Map

Download as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2015 Figure BIO9 Distribution of ecological communities in Australia listed under the Environment Protection and...

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No marine species has been removed from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 threatened species list since 2011...

2016
Marine environment
State and trends
Key Finding

2016No marine species has been removed from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 threatened species list since 2011; 8 species and 1 ecological community have been added, and 2 species have been uplisted.

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Figure HER25 State and territory grant funding allocated to heritage conservation projects, 2011–12 to 2015–16

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Graph

Heritage agencies grants funding allocated to projects, 2011–12 to 2015–16 Heritage agencies grants funding allocated to projects, 2011–12 to 2015–16 2011-122012-132013-142014-152015-16 Australian Capital Territory0.3099750.32460.3296340.3664340.336474 New...

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Figure HER26 Aggregated state and territory grant funding allocated to heritage conservation projects, 2011–12 to 2015–16

2016
Heritage
Effectiveness of management
Graph

Heritage Agencies grants funding allocated to projects by year 2011-12 to 2015-16 Heritage Agencies grants funding allocated to projects by year 2011-12 to 2015-16 Australian Capital TerritoryNew South WalesNorthern TerritoryQueenslandSouth...

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Triage responses to changes resulting from pressures

2016
Marine environment
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... changes in ecological systems or the achievement of conservation goals because of planning ( Bottrill et al. ...
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Box BIO14 The Vale of Belvoir

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... and aesthetic values. In 2010, a statutory perpetual conservation covenant was registered on the land title under the Tasmanian Nature Conservation Act 2002 , which helps protect 6 nationally ...
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Antarctic governance

2016
Antarctic environment
Introduction
Report Content

2016 Antarctic environment Introduction Antarctica The Antarctic Treaty and a set of related international agreements, known collectively as the Antarctic Treaty System, provide the framework...

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Box HER14 Inneston Village Heritage Artisan Training Program, South Australia

2016
Heritage
Pressures
Case Study
... Training Program has been delivered by Applied Building Conservation Training since 2009 in collaboration with the ... the basic principles and procedures to be followed in the conservation of Australian heritage places. Courses are run ... is then put into practice on real structures needing conservation . Topics covered include traditional ...
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Availability of information

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... resource managers as a major impediment to biodiversity conservation. The lack of effective monitoring and reporting ... report, in the original National strategy for the conservation of Australia’s biological diversity 1996 and in the updated Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2010–2030 ( NRMMC 2010 ) as a major ...
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Recent developments

2016
Coasts
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... emerging analytical methods for decision-making, and conservation at multiple levels of biodiversity. ...
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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Threatened species lists

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Threatened species lists As at December 2015, a total of 480 fauna species (terrestrial and...

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Historic heritage

2016
Heritage
Outlook
Report Content

2016 Heritage Outlook Timor Sea The major mechanism for managing historic heritage in Australia is through statutory lists and registers, which are neither cohesive nor comprehensive. Many...

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Improving management effectiveness

2016
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Effectiveness of management Managing the environment increasingly requires an understanding of how different pressures interact, and how management frameworks interact across different jurisdictions and sectors. It also requires sufficient...

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Box BLT1 Managing Melbourne’s grasslands on a city fringe

2016
Built environment
Pressures
Case Study
... under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth) is an example of a strategic ... significance listed under the Act, and set out a range of conservation measures to mitigate these impacts. These conservation measures have included the establishment of a ...
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Figure BIO26 Number of fish species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in each Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Map

Download as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 Figure BIO26 Number of fish species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in...

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Box BIO18 Western Australian islands—safe havens for threatened species

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... islands, or introduce threatened species to improve their conservation outlook. The most recent has been the Montebello ... making them available for fauna translocations. For conservation purposes, mala or rufous hare-wallaby ( ... of the fauna reconstruction of the Montebello Islands. A conservation introduction of the burrowing bettong or boodie ...
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Management status

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Murray Darling Tasmania National Reserve System and National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas Australia has...

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Indigenous Protected Areas and conservation covenants on private land are playing an increasingly important role in our protected area estate, although...

2016
Land
State and trends
Key Finding

2016Indigenous Protected Areas and conservation covenants on private land are playing an increasingly important role in our protected area estate, although concerns have been expressed regarding the availability of ongoing funding for Indigenous Protected Areas.

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Figure BIO16 Numbers of species and critically endangered species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in each Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Map

Download as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 Figure BIO16 Numbers of species and critically endangered species listed under the Environment Protection and...

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Figure BIO22 Numbers of reptile and amphibian species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in each Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia region

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Map

Download as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 Figure BIO22 Numbers of reptile and amphibian species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity...

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Translocation of threatened species to offset development is increasingly used as a tool of last resort in conservation management and recovery planning

2016
Biodiversity
Key Finding

2016Australia has been a world leader in the translocation of threatened species for conservation, which will continue to play a key role in management in the future. Translocation of threatened species is increasing and its overall long-term costs and benefits need to be well understood,...

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Figure BIO38 Proportion of ecological communities represented in the National Reserve System and listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Graph

Proportion of EPBC-listed ecological communities represented in the National Reserve System Proportion of EPBC-listed ecological communities represented in the National Reserve System Less than 1%Less than 5%Less than 10%Less than 20%Less than 50%More than 50...

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Figure BIO13 Net changes in the number of species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 since 2000

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Graph

Net changes in the number of EPBC listed species post 2000 Net changes in the number of EPBC listed species post 2000 FloraInvertebratesBirdsMammalsFishReptilesFrogs 20000000000 2001114211310 2002129712310 20036111812510 20046511813710...

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