One Land – Many Stories: Prospectus of Investment provides an overarching framework of the Australian Government’s priorities for funding biodiversity conservation and improving natural resource management in 2013–14. It articulates the places (target areas), national priorities (investment themes) and the …
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Less than a decade ago NSW had one of the worst records for land clearing in the world. Land clearing is recognised as the greatest threat to biodiversity in NSW as well as being a leading cause of salinity. In …
CSIRO’s new assessment The implications of climate change for Australia’s biodiversity conservation and protected areas will inform future management. Researchers analysed the impacts of climate change on native species and ecosystems across Australia, and in four priority biomes (regional-scale ecosystems …
In the report Spineless prepared by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in conjunction with IUCN and the IUCN Species Survival Commission more than 12,000 invertebrates from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species were reviewed by conservation scientists. Freshwater species …
We are now in the United Nations Decade of Biodiversity 2011-2020. Under the Convention on Biological Diversity there is a Strategic Plan with the number one target “By 2020, at the latest, people are aware of the values of biodiversity …
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The High Country Urban Biodiversity Project (HiCUB) in the NSW New England area was completed in June 2012. Find out more about the successes of HiCUB in the documentary video and final report and photos.
BioFresh is an EU-funded international project that aims to build a global information platform for scientists and ecosystem managers with access to all available databases describing the distribution, status and trends of global freshwater biodiversity. BioFresh is continually integrating metadatabases …
Biodiversity Month is held in September each year and aims to promote the importance of protecting, conserving and improving biodiversity both within Australia and across the world.
The ABC’s Four Corners program Koala Crunch Time has revealed that in key parts of Australia, koalas are dying in big numbers. Development, cars, dogs, disease and climate change are making life tough for these fascinating creatures. The bigger question …
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The Queensland Government wants to hear from landowners in South East Queensland interested in selling properties that could become protected koala habitat. Environment Minister Andrew Powell said the government wanted to purchase land identified as suitable for long-term protection and …
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