Biodiversity

Management context

Biodiversity management is undertaken at all levels of government, by private enterprise, and by thousands of landholders and volunteers across Australia.
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Management capacity

It is has been widely acknowledged that management agencies are required to manage biodiversity despite an incomplete understanding and limited resources.
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Management initiatives and investments

NRM funding provides key measures that include many practical elements of protecting and sustainably managing biodiversity.
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Management status

Australia has an agreed intergovermental strategy for developing a comprehensive, adequate and representative National Reserve System: Australia’s Strategy for the National Reserve System 2009–2030.
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New technologies, solutions and innovations

Improved tools and technical advances are becoming more available, sophisticated and cost-effective for biodiversity assessment, monitoring and management. The following are increasingly being taken up for a multitude of biodiversity monitoring requirements:
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Assessing the effectiveness of biodiversity management

Although during the past few decades significant effort has been made to understand the effectiveness of biodiversity management actions, a major issue that complicates assessment is the highly variable climatic and hydrological conditions in Australia.
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Cresswell ID, Murphy H (2016). Biodiversity: Topics. In: Australia state of the environment 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/biodiversity/topics?framework=116, DOI 10.4226/94/58b65ac828812