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Terrestrial plant and animal species: Threatened species lists
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Tasmania Australian Capital Territory Threatened species lists As at December 2015, a total of 480 fauna species (terrestrial and...
Australia’s heritage remains vulnerable to both natural and anthropogenic threats
2016 Key Finding2016Climate change poses a major challenge for heritage owners and managers, and has the potential for high-impact and irreversible damage in the absence of remedial action. Natural areas continue to be affected by invasive species, loss of habitat and altered fire regimes. Economic growth...
Figure BIO14 Number of fauna species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, 2011 and 2015
2016 GraphNumber 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...
Terrestrial plant and animal species: Birds
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Tasmania Photo by David Westcott Pale-yellow robin (Tregallasia capito), Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Queensland...
Terrestrial plant and animal species: Mammals
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Great Barrier Reef Mammals The state and trend of mammals varies considerably. In 2014, The action plan for Australian mammals 2012 (Woinarski et al. 2014)...
Freshwater species and ecosystems
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Murray Darling Tasmania Great Barrier Reef Australian Capital Territory Lake Eyre...
Global climate change and climate variability
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures Tasmania All recent state and territory SoE reports note the adverse effects of global climate change on biodiversity. These increasingly include extreme weather, as...
Figure BIO27 Distribution of (a) currently listed freshwater fish, (b) species identified as potentially vulnerable, (c) river condition and (d) freshwater fish research effort across Australia
2016 MapDownload as pngDownload dataset Note: The scale represents the number of species of each category found in each catchment (a and b). The condition of Australian rivers (c) is adapted from Stein et al. (2002), with 1 being the most pristine and 8 the most disturbed catchments....
Box BIO14 The Vale of Belvoir
2016 Case Study... endangered; spotted-tailed quoll— Dasyurus maculatus , vulnerable; eastern quoll— D. viverrinus , vulnerable; masked owl— Tyto novaehollandiae castanops , vulnerable; and ptunarra brown butterfly— Oreixenica ...
Spatial distribution of pressures
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Pressures There has been no updated overall synthesis of the spatial distribution of pressures affecting biodiversity in the past 5 years. A 2015 publication (Lee et al. 2015) assessed the spatial...
Figure COA13 Number of threatened species that occur within 50 kilometres of the coast
2016 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 with a 5-...
Biodiversity: Threatened species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast North East Coast Tasmania Greater Brisbane Greater Darwin...
Biodiversity: Habitat-forming species
2016 Report Content2016 Coasts State and trends South West Coast South Australian Gulf North East Coast Tasmania Greater Darwin...
Figure BIO15 Number of plant species listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, 2011 and 2015
2016 GraphNumber 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...
Overview of state and trends of biodiversity
2016 Report Content2016 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...
Overview of resilience of the antarctic environment
2016 Report Content2016 Antarctic environment Resilience Antarctica Natural disturbances are part of life in Antarctic ecosystems, and the native species can generally survive shock events because they have...
Factors affecting resilience capacity
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity Resilience Murray Darling Tasmania Multiple factors acting at various levels of organisation, from species to landscapes, will interact to determine...
Resilience of the Antarctic environment 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceAlthough organisms living in Antarctica have evolved to cope with severe events, it is challenging to measure their level of resilience and to predict how future climate change will affect Antarctic ecosystems. This is largely because our understanding of key parameters is still...
Box BIO18 Western Australian islands—safe havens for threatened species
2016 Case Study... of the species to the point where it was downlisted from vulnerable to conservation dependent in November 2015. All ...
Box MAR7 White shark
2016 Case Study... have no doubt decreased since the species was listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity ... Species (Appendixes I and II), and are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of ...
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...
Resilience of Australia’s climate 2016
2016 At a glanceAt a glanceOur planet is somewhat resilient to increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels because atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by the oceans. During recent decades, the oceans have taken up approximately 25 per cent of the annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. However, the...
Water abstraction and interception
2016 Report Content2016 Inland water Risks Three factors contribute to the risk posed by increasing water abstraction and interception: the demands of a growing population increases in per-person water consumption for this population...
Box BIO23 Range expansion of flying foxes
2016 Case Study... al. 2012 ). More recently, in the south of its range, the vulnerable grey-headed flying fox ( P. poliocephalus ) has ...
Terrestrial plant and animal species: Reptiles and amphibians
2016 Report Content2016 Biodiversity State and trends Reptiles and amphibians As was the case in SoE 2011, there has been little improvement in the status of listed reptile and amphibian taxa at the national level. However, some species...
Box BIO10 Ongoing declines of Christmas Island reptiles
2016 Case Study... are insufficient to assume a decline ; it is listed as vulnerable under the EPBC Act . Captive breeding programs ...
Box ANT6 Rapid collapse of an alpine ecosystem through dieback
2016 Case Study... impact of climate-induced environmental change on vulnerable ecosystems elsewhere. ...
Box MAR9 Supporting the traditional management of dugongs and marine turtles in Torres Strait
2016 Case Study... Conservation Act 1999 ( EPBC Act ), and are listed as vulnerable in Queensland and near threatened in the Northern ... and green, hawksbill and flatback turtles are listed as vulnerable. In the Northern Territory, leatherback turtles ... hawksbill and olive ridley turtles are listed as vulnerable; and green turtles are listed as near threatened. ...
Box BIO9 The letter-winged kite
2016 Case Study... cats prey directly on kites at the nest, including vulnerable populations occupying drought refuges. The kite is ...
Pressures affecting Antarctic fisheries
2016, 2011 Assessment summaryAntarctic environment Pressures Pressures on the marine environment Antarctica Year...
