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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Threatened species lists

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... the EPBC Act, including 55 that are listed as extinct or extinct in the wild. This reflects an overall increase of ...
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Terrestrial ecosystems and communities

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory The Interim...

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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Plant species and fungi

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... the EPBC Act, including 55 that are listed as extinct or extinct in the wild. This reflects an overall increase of ...
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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Mammals

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... the EPBC Act, including 55 that are listed as extinct or extinct in the wild. This reflects an overall increase of ...
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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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Overview of state and trends of biodiversity

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends What has changed since 2011? The list of nationally threatened species and ecological communities has increased, with the addition of 30 new ecological communities, and 44 animal and...

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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Birds

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... the EPBC Act, including 55 that are listed as extinct or extinct in the wild. This reflects an overall increase of ...
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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Reptiles and amphibians

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... the EPBC Act, including 55 that are listed as extinct or extinct in the wild. This reflects an overall increase of ...
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No marine species have been removed from the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) threatened species list since 2011; 8 species and 1 ecological community have been added

2016
Marine environment
Key Finding

2016Since 2011, 2 sea snakes, 2 seabirds, 2 sharks, 1 sawfish and 1 fish have been listed, and 2 fish species have been reclassified as critically endangered. Giant kelp forests across south-eastern Australia were the first marine community to be listed as a threatened ecological community...

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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Invertebrates

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content
... the EPBC Act, including 55 that are listed as extinct or extinct in the wild. This reflects an overall increase of ...
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Freshwater species and ecosystems

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory Lake Eyre...

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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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State and trends of biodiversity 2016

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
At a glance

At a glanceUnderstanding of the state and trends of the vast majority of individual species in Australia is limited. The lack of effective monitoring data for understanding state and trends, even for threatened species, is highlighted by every jurisdiction and all previous state of the...

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Figure COA13 Number of threatened species that occur within 50 kilometres of the coast

2016
Coasts
State and trends
Map

Interact with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Note: This map uses the threatened (critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable) species listed as at January 2016 under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Each species distribution was intersected...

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Box BIO8 The central rock-rat

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Case Study
... an upgrade to its conservation status. Currently listed as endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity ... Act 1999 , it is recommended for an upgrade to critically endangered, given the apparent ongoing decline in ... by a ground layer dominated by either hummock grasses or a mixture of forbs and subshrubs, with the upper strata ...
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Pest species and pathogens

2016
Biodiversity
Pressures
Report Content
... on much of the Indigenous estate. In general, landowners or land managers are legally responsible for the control of ...
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Environment protection systems

2016
Marine environment
Effectiveness of management
Report Content

2016 Marine environment Effectiveness of management Tasmania Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef...

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Factors affecting resilience capacity

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content
... the amount of intact habitat, connectivity, and variation (or heterogeneity) in the landscape are important properties ...
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Ecological processes and species populations

2016
Inland water
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Inland water State and trends South East Coast Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Lake Eyre...

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Overview of state and trends of coasts

2016
Coasts
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Coasts State and trends South East Coast South West Coast North East Coast East Coast What has changed since 2011?...

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Biodiversity: Threatened species

2016
Coasts
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin...

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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 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

Interact with mapDownload 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...

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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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Box BIO10 Ongoing declines of Christmas Island reptiles

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Case Study
... 5 species have declined significantly ; 2 are listed as critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity ... capucinus ), black rat ( Rattus rattus ), and barking or house gecko ( Hemidactylus frenatus ) ( Smith M et   al. ...
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State and trends of marine biodiversity: Species Groups

2016
Marine environment
State and trends
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2016 Marine environment State and trends Marine Temperate East Marine South West Great Barrier Reef Marine North...

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Figure BIO17 Numbers of plant species and critically endangered plant 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

Interact with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 Figure BIO17 Numbers of plant species and critically endangered plant species listed under the...

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Figure BIO20 Numbers of mammal species and critically endangered mammal 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

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Figure BIO21 Number of bird species and critically endangered bird 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

Interact with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 Figure BIO21 Numbers of bird species and critically endangered bird species listed under the...

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Figure BIO23 Number of invertebrate species and critically endangered invertebrate species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in each Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Aus...

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Map

Interact with mapDownload as pngDownload dataset Source: Environmental Resources Information Network, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, 2016 Figure BIO23 Number of invertebrate species and critically endangered invertebrate species listed...

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