The Victoria: State of the Environment (SoE) 2013 is intended to inform the Victorian community about the health of the natural environment and influence government to achieve environmental, social, cultural and economic sustainability. The SoE 2013 contains two main parts and an epilogue. Part A Trends and Analysis Trends and Analysis of key indicators in...

This report identifies indicator species, which need to be monitored to help achieve biodiversity targets in New Zealand. Abstract The New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) has recently developed an Inventory and Monitoring Framework to measure progress towards biodiversity targets. It adopts the use of a hierarchical and integrated indicator framework and encapsulates three targeted...

Abstract In the first continental analysis of the effects of climate change on a faunal group, we identified that the climate space of 101 Australian terrestrial and inland water bird taxa is likely to be entirely gone by 2085, 16 marine taxa have breeding sites that are predicted to be at least 10% less productive...

Biodiversity conservation in Fiji is largely carried out by international Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) who provide valuable resources, yet have been unable to affect enough changes to halt Fiji's biodiversity crisis. Their interests tend be in short term projects and thus cannot be squarely in line with those of Fiji's natural resource owners, who can...

This paper examines the role of weeds beyond the spatial, to consider their history, both social and evolutionary. The central focus is, however, the ‘culture’: the definition of place that makes the plant a problem. We are particularly interested in how changing cultural aesthetics in different eras created the opportunities for particular garden plants to...