Environmental monitoring
Alternative labels
Ecological monitoring
Environmental performance
Report
The last decade: the World Heritage Committee and the Great Barrier Reef
This report provides expert advice to the World Heritage Committee on the protection and management of the Great Barrier Reef including recommendations to mitigate climate change and fishing impacts and to meet time-bound water quality targets.
Strategy
National soil strategy
The National Soil Strategy is Australia’s first national policy on soil. It sets out how Australia will value, manage and improve our soil for the next 20 years.
Policy report
Make every drop count, and count every drop: vanishing groundwater needs proper monitoring and management
Australia spends billions of dollars on social programmes, which will be wasted if we run out of drinkable water. This report argues that groundwater is a key part of the overall system and needs to be studied deeply to properly manage a sustainable future for our country.
Report
Victoria's water in a changing climate
Victoria’s water resources are under pressure from increasing demand and decreasing supply. This research report examines how the climate has and will continue to change, and the impacts on Victoria’s water resources, allowing better preparation for the future.
Technical report
Monitoring the monitor: a temporal synthesis of the McArthur River Mine Independent Monitor reports
This report finds that a number of sacred Indigenous sites, and an important river system in the Northern Territory, face irreversible cultural and ecological damage if the McArthur River Mine operations continue unabated. The authors argue that the independent monitoring system set up to protect the environmental and cultural interests of the area is toothless...