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Species and ecological groups are variable in recent trends, with the most concern being for shorebirds
2016 Key Finding2016 Nationally, there are currently 1257 floral and 425 faunal species listed as threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, many of which occur on the coast. Several protected species are now stable or improving, demonstrating the benefits of good...
Soil: Carbon dynamics
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends South Australian Gulf Tasmania Carbon dynamics In light of international agreements such as the Paris Agreement—which emerged from the 21st...
Soil: Salinity and acidification
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends Murray Darling East Coast Greater Sydney Soil salinity Secondary dryland salinity has been one of Australia’s most...
Soil: Understanding
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends South Australian Gulf Tasmania Understanding the current state and condition of Australian soils requires an appreciation of their diversity...
State and trends of the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceThe area of land managed for conservation has continued to expand, in both private and public sectors. This is partly due to a decrease in the area of native forest managed for production of timber and wood products. The area formally owned and managed by Indigenous Australians...
In this report
2016 Report Content2016 Land Introduction This report provides an account of the most significant and recent human impacts on our land. It highlights improvements in land management over some parts of Australia, as well as several...
Box BIO21 Rethinking revegetation resilience
2016 Case Study... quality), biodiversity conservation , amenity and carbon sequestration . To ensure that these outcomes can be achieved ...
Overview of state and trends of the land
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends Timor Sea Great Barrier Reef What has changed since 2011? The effects of the millennium drought in southern Australian (2000–10, although in...
Soil: Formation and erosion
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends Murray Darling East Coast Greater Sydney Under steady state, erosion rates are equal to soil formation rates. The...
Land use and management
2016 Report Content2016 Land State and trends North East Coast Great Barrier Reef Australia’s population is concentrated along the eastern, south-eastern and south-western coastal fringes...
Climate change is a key pressure on the Australian environment
2016 Report Content2016 Pressures Climate change is an increasingly important and pervasive pressure on all aspects of the Australian environment. Although our climate and its high natural variability from year to year have always been a major influence on the state...
Pressures affecting the land environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAlthough a changing climate has shaped the Australian landscape and its vegetation, the current rate of climate change is likely to result in changes in the distribution and composition of vegetation communities. Some communities are likely to disappear, and others will be...
Resilience of our environment and society
2016 Report Content2016 Climate Resilience South Coast South Australian Gulf Timor Sea Great Barrier Reef Marine North...
Outlook under a business-as-usual scenario
2016 Report Content2016 Outlook It is clear from SoE 2016 that some parts of Australia’s environment are not yet being managed sustainably. Although some uncertainties exist, assuming current trends continue and policies or management arrangements are not changed...
Managing biodiversity for resilience
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Resilience The ability of ecosystems to tolerate and recover from disturbance is a phenomenon that is vitally important to understand. Resilience has stimulated much valuable research that has...
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...
Overview of state and trends of coasts
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South East Coast South West Coast North East Coast East Coast What has changed since 2011?...
Importance of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Introduction Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Biodiversity is important to humans for many reasons. Biodiversity is also considered by many to have...
Livability: Natural environment
2016 Report Content2016 Built environment State and trends Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin...
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...
Climate change–induced pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Land Pressures South East Coast Murray Darling North East Coast Tasmania Lake Eyre Our...
Resources and capacity for management
2016 Report Content2016 Land Effectiveness of management South Western Plateau Investment in management of the land environment includes financial and in-kind commitments by all levels of government, private...
Human capital
2016 Report Content2016 Land Effectiveness of management Timor Sea East Coast Although positive developments in resourcing, evidence-based policy-making and management effectiveness are...
Outlook for biodiversity 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceIt seems unlikely, given the current overall poor status and deteriorating trends in biodiversity and the high impact of increasing pressures, that overall biodiversity outcomes will improve in the short or medium term. Our current investments in biodiversity management are not...
Management capacity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Effectiveness of management Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Jurisdictional reporting on management effectiveness It is has been widely...
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...
State and trends of soil carbon
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryLand State and trends Soil: Carbon dynamics Year...
Regional and landscape-scale pressures: Invasive species
2016 Report Content2016 Land Pressures South East Coast South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane...
Biodiversity: Habitat-forming species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast South Australian Gulf North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin...
State and trends of indicators of marine ecosystem health: Physical, biogeochemical and biological processes
2016 Report Content... directly (e.g. fishing) or indirectly (e.g. carbon sequestration and climate). ...
