Native vegetation
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Extinction wrapped 2024
The national laws intended to protect nature are failing. This report takes stock of the state of animals, plants and habitats threatened with extinction in Australia in 2024. It presents key findings, identifies the 10 worst impacted species and calls for an overhaul of the national nature laws.
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Australia’s state of the forests report: synthesis 2023
Australia’s forest policy and management is underpinned by legal, institutional and economic frameworks at the national and the state and territory levels. These frameworks provide for reporting to the community on the state of Australia’s forests. This report provides a summary of Australia’s 44 indicators of sustainable forest management.
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Logging off: a cost-benefit analysis of land use options for the native forests of the Central Highlands, Victoria
Australia is home to some of the world’s most ancient forests. This paper offers policy-makers a blueprint for assessing the true value of our native forests. Recognising the inherent preferencing of the quantitative (particularly when it comes to Expenditure Review Committee processes), the authors conduct a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of conserving the wet forests in...
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Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017
New Zealand’s plants are facing increasing threats, according to this scientific report published by the Department of Conservation.
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Land clearing and climate change: risks and opportunities in the Sunshine State
This report outlines how more than one million hectares of woody vegetation, an area more than seven times larger than the size of Queensland’s capital, has been cleared between 2012-13 and 2015-16.