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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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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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Managing biodiversity for resilience

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content
... of pressures. Evaluating the effectiveness of any policy or management program designed to strengthen resilience will ...
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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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Box BIO14 The Vale of Belvoir

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... It is one of Australia’s best examples of rare and endangered highland grasslands. It also contains unusual ... and fauna species (paper daisy— Leucochrysum albicans , endangered; Tasmanian devil— Sarcophilus harrisii , endangered; spotted-tailed quoll— Dasyurus maculatus , ...
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Figure COA13 Number of threatened species that occur within 50 kilometres of the coast

2016
Coasts
State and trends
Map

Download 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 with a 5-...

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The natural environment

2016
Antarctic environment
Introduction
Report Content

2016 Antarctic environment Introduction Antarctica The Antarctic environment comprises diverse habitats and ecosystems that include: ice-covered areas ice-free vegetated areas and rocks...

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State and trends of marine biodiversity: Species Groups

2016
Marine environment
State and trends
Report Content

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

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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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Pressures on natural heritage

2016
Heritage
Pressures
Report Content

2016 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...

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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 population ... by a ground layer dominated by either hummock grasses or a mixture of forbs and subshrubs, with the upper strata ...
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Coastal and marine species and ecosystems

2016
Biodiversity
State and trends
Report Content

2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin Greater Hobart...

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Current urban planning and management

2016
Built environment
Effectiveness of management
Report Content
... planning and management strategies that have been—or are being—employed for various aspects of the built ...
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Box MAR8 Commercial fisheries managed by the Australian Government

2016
Marine environment
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... in applying harvest strategies is the adoption of one or more pre-agreed decision rules. This links the management ... the number of stocks classified as not overfished and/or not subject to overfishing has increased since reporting ... assessments, and the level of interaction with threatened, endangered and protected species. Compulsory use of turtle ...
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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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Biodiversity: Habitat-forming species

2016
Coasts
State and trends
Report Content

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

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Box BIO15 A common assessment method for threatened species and ecological communities

2016
Biodiversity
Effectiveness of management
Case Study
... will be applied in a hierarchical way. First, a species or community would be assessed at the national level. Species ... statutory list of all jurisdictions in which the species or community occurs. If a species or community does not meet the criteria for listing as ...
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Overview of state and trends of the marine environment

2016
Marine environment
State and trends
Report Content

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

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