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Biodiversity

General

Books, reports and series

• Assessment of Australia's Terrestrial Biodiversity 2002 
• Assessment of Australia's Terrestrial Biodiversity 2008
• Australia's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2010-2020: Consultation draft - March 2009 (order printed copy) Limit of 2 copies
• Australia's National Report to the Fourth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
  • First report - 1998
  • Second report - 2001
  • Third report - 2005
  • Fourth report - 2009
• Biodiversity conservation research in a changing climate - workshop report - 2007
• Biodiversity Conservation Research - Australia's Priorities - ANZECC June 2001 (order printed copy)
• Biodiversity: Managing a national asset - 2006
• Biodiversity series - Information about the conservation of Australia's biodiversity
  • Paper No. 1 - Biodiversity and its value - 1993
  • Paper No. 2 - Australia's biodiversity: an overview of selected significant components - 1994
  • Paper No. 3 - Country in flames: Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on biodiversity and fire in north Australia - 1995
  • Paper No. 4 - Refugia for biological diversity in arid and semi-arid Australia - 1995
  • Paper No. 5 - Two way track - biodiversity conservation and ecotourism: an investigation of linkages, mutual benefits and future opportunities - 1995
  • Paper No. 6 - Native vegetation clearance, habitat loss and biodiversity decline: an overview of recent native vegetation clearance in Australia and its implications for biodiversity - 1995
  • Paper No. 7 - Landcover disturbance over the Australian continent: a contemporary assessment - 1996
  • Paper No. 8 - Fire and biodiversity: the effects and effectiveness of fire management - 1996
  • Paper No. 9 - Reimbursing the future: an evaluation of motivational, voluntary, price-based, property-right, and regulatory incentives for the conservation of biodiversity - 1996
  • Paper No. 10 - Approaches to bioregional planning - 1996
• Biodiversity technical paper series
  • Paper No 1 - Australia's biodiversity: responses to fire: plants, birds and invertebrates - 1999
  • Paper No 2 - Landscape planning for biodiversity conservation in agricultural regions - 1999
  • Paper No 3 - The effects of artificial sources of water on rangeland biodiversity - 1997
  • An evaluation of the effectiveness of environmental surrogates and modelling techniques in predicting the distribution of biological diversity - 1997
• Climate Change and Invasive Species – A review of interactions - 2008
• Climate change impacts on biodiversity in Australia: outcomes of a workshop sponsored by the Biological Diversity Advisory Committee, 1-2 October 2002 - August 2003
• Commonwealth public inquiry into access to biological resources in Commonwealth areas - 2000
• Developing a national biodiversity and climate change action plan: consultation paper - September 2003
• The economic value of biodiversity: a scoping paper - October 2003
• Ecosystem Services and Australian Natural Resource Management (NRM) Futures - August 2007
• Encouraging Environmental Philanthropy - 2007
• Financing long term conservation action - November 2005
• Gifts That Keep on Giving - A Landholders Guide to Land Protection and Conservation Options - 2005 (order printed copy)
• Making Economic Valuation Work for Biodiversity Conservation - May 2005 (order printed copy)
• Managing access to Australia's biological resources: developing a nationally consistent approach - October 1996
• A national approach to addressing marine biodiversity decline - Report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council - April 2008
• A national approach to biodiversity decline - Report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council - 2005
• National biodiversity and climate change action plan 2004-2007 - 2004
• National koala conservation strategy - Review of progress in implementing the 1998 national koala conservation strategy - September 2008
• National koala conservation strategy - 1998 (ANZECC 59) (order printed copy)
• National objectives and targets for biodiversity conservation 2001-2005 - 2001
• National strategy for the conservation of Australia's biological diversity - 1996
• Natural temperate grassland - May 2003
• Review of the conservation values of Commonwealth land in western Sydney - 2004
• Review of the national strategy for the conservation of Australia's biological diversity - 2001
• The state of Australia's birds 2003 - December 2003
• The state of Australia's birds 2004 - December 2004
• The state of Australia's birds 2005: woodlands and birds
• The state of Australia's birds 2006 - December 2006
• The state of Australia's birds 2007: birds in a changing climate - January 2008 (order printed copy)
• The state of Australia's birds 2008 - December 2008 (order printed copy)
• State of the Environment reporting - biodiversity

Brochures and fact sheets

• Be smart with seed - 2004
• Biodiversity: nature's variety, our heritage, our future - a guide to using and protecting Australia's biodiversity - 1998 (Revised 2001)
• National biodiversity and climate change action plan - summary brochure - 2004
• Tax incentives for conservation - October 2007
• What the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) means for Norfolk Island - June 2004

Newsletters

• Bush - seeds a growing industry - January 2004
• Bush - working together on weeds - May 2004
• Bush - rot, rust and smut, stream-side vegetation, hatches, matches and dispatches - November 2004
• Communities for communities newsletter

Posters (Only Available within Australia, limitof 6 per customer)

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Access to genetic resources

Books and reports

• Commonwealth public inquiry into access to biological resources in Commonwealth areas - 2000
• National strategy for the conservation of Australia's biological diversity - 1996
• Nationally consistent approach for access to and the utilisation of Australia's native genetic and biochemical resources - 2002
• Queensland Biodiscovery Collaboration - The Griffith University AstraZeneca Partnership for Natural Product Discovery - UNU-IAS Report - 2008

Brochures and fact sheets

• Biological resources access agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Craig J. Venter Institute - 2004
• Genetic resources management in Commonwealth areas - Sustainable access > shared benefits - 2005
  A guide to understanding the new Australian regulations for access to genetic and biochemical resources found in native species in Commonwealth areas
• Understanding the Nationally consistent approach for access to and the utilisation of Australia's native genetic and biochemical resources (NCA) - 2002

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Biodiversity conservation in regional planning

Books and reports

• Proceedings of the National Conservation Incentives Forum - July 2005
• Australian terrestrial biodiversity assessment 2002  - December 2002
• Integrating biodiversity into regional planning: the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority pilot project - 2003
• Integration of biodiversity into regional NRM planning - case studies - 2003
• Integration of biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning: peri-urban case study - 2004
• Integration of biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning: rural case study - 2004
• Mechanisms for improved integration of biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning (PDF - 1,440 KB)  - 2003
• Plants, people and planning: integrating national botanical information and regional vegetation planning and management - 2003

Brochures and fact sheets

• Biodiversity conservation in regional NRM planning - factsheet (PDF - 323 KB)  - September 2003
• Tax incentives for conservation - July 2004

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Biodiversity hotspots

Books and reports

• Maintaining Australia's Biodiversity Hotspots Programme, About the programme brochure - November 2007
• Maintaining Australia's Biodiversity Hotspots Programme Guidelines - November 2007
• Megadiverse countries - The meaning, significance and implications of Biodiversity - Australia State of the Environment Report 2001

Brochures and fact sheets

• Mount Lofty Initiative - Bush Bids, Biodiversity Hotspots Programme - 2006

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Invasive species

Books and reports

• Australian Government response to the Turning back the tide - the invasive species challenge Senate Committee report - 2007
• Development of an alert list for alien mammals and reptiles - 2007
• Development of model standard operating procedures for the humane research of pest animals in Australia - 2007
• Easter Bilby - limit of 1 per order (order printed copy)
• Invasive species in Australia - 2004
• Prioritisation of high conservation status mainland islands - 2009
• Prioritisation of high conservation status offshore islands - 2009
• Rabbits are weeds too!
• Review of progress on invasive species - 2005
• Review of the impacts of gambusia, redfin perch, tench, roach, yellowfin goby and streaked goby in Australia - 2008
• Review of the impacts of introduced ornamental fish species that have established wild populations in Australia - 2008
• Threat abatement projects - 2006-2007
• Weeds and ferals on the loose! - 2002

Diseases, fungi and parasites

• A report on Mundulla Yellows in Australia - 2004
• An overview of the impacts of translocated native fish species in Australia - 2008
• Background Document for the Threat abatement plan disease in natural ecosystems caused by Phytophthora Cinnamomi - 2007
• Beak and feather disease (psittacine circoviral disease) - 2004
• Chytridiomycosis (amphibian chytrid fungus disease) - 2004
• Developing field & diagnostic methods to survey for chytridiomycosis in Tasmanian frogs - 2005
• Development of Recombinant Proteins as a Candidate Vaccine for Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease - 2005
• Does the physiological status of the plant at the time of spraying affect the efficacy of phosphite? - 2008
• Emerging amphibian diseases and disease surveillance in Queensland - Stage 1 (January 2006 - January 2007) - 2007
• Enhancing the efficacy of phosphite with the addition/supplementation of other chemicals such as those known to be involved in resistance - 2008
• Eradication of Phytophthora cinnamomi from spot infections in native plant communities in Western Australia and Tasmania - 2008
• Experimental research to obtain a better understanding of the epidemiology, transmission and dispersal of amphibian chytrid fungus in Australian ecosystems (Executive Summary) - 2009
• Experimental research to obtain a better understanding of the pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis, and the susceptibility and resistance of key amphibian species to chytridiomycosis in Australia (Executive Summary) - 2009
• Hygiene protocols for the prevention and control of diseases (particularly beak and feather disease) in Australian birds - 2006
• Management of Phytophthora cinnamomi for biodiversity conservation in Australia - 2006
• Phytophthora root rot - 2004
• Pilot survey to map the distribution of chytridiomycosis (caused by the amphibian chytrid fungus) in Australian frogs - 2005
• Threat abatement plan for disease in natural ecosystems caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi - 2009
• Threat abatement plan, disease in natural ecosystems caused by Phytophthora Cinnamomi - Draft - 2007
• Threat abatement plans

Feral animals

• Australian pest animal strategy brochure - 2007
• Australian pest animal strategy - A national strategy for the management of vertebrate pest animals in Australia - 2007
• Bounceback - Flinders Ranges
• Cost effective feral animal exclusion fencing for areas of high conservation value in Australia - 2004
• Development of a model code of practice and standard operating procedures for the humane capture, handling or destruction of feral animals in Australia
• Experimental trials to determine effective feral cat and fox exclusion fence designs - 2006
• European red fox (Vulpes vulpes) - 2004
• European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) - 2004
• Camel fact sheet - 2009
• The feral cane toad (Bufo marinus) - 2004
• The feral cat (Felis catus) - 2004
• The feral goat (Capra hircus) - 2004
• Feral horse (Equus caballus) and feral donkey (Equus asinus) - 2004
• The feral pig (Sus scrofa) - 2004
• The feral water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) - 2004
• Final Report on Northern Territory Islands: improving Australia's ability to protect its island habitats from feral animals - 2005
• Impact of fox baiting on Tiger Quoll populations, project ID: 00016505 - final report
• Introduced animals on New South Wales islands: improving Australia's ability to protect its island habitats from feral animals - 2006
• Introduced animals on Tasmanian Islands - 2005
• Introduced animals on Victorian islands: improving Australia's ability to protect its island habitats from feral animals  - 2008
• Interactions between feral cats, foxes, native carnivores, and rabbits in Australia - 2004
• Introduced mammals on Western Australian islands: improving Australia's ability to protect its island habitats from feral animals - 2004
• Managing invasive species in Australia - success stories
  • Bounceback - 2004
• Medium term control methods for cane toads: Olfactory and acoustic attractants - 2006
• Overview of the impact of feral cats on Australian native fauna - 1996
• An overview of the impacts of introduced ornamental fish species that have established wild populations in Australia - 2008
• Overview of the impacts of introduced salmonids on Australian native fauna - 1996
• Potential cane toad short to medium term control techniques – the biological feasibility and cost of exclusion as a mitigating control strategy - 2004
• Review of the CSIRO Biological Control of Cane Toad Program (to April 2008) - 2008
• Review of existing Red Fox, Feral Cat, Feral Rabbit, Feral Pig and Feral Goat control in Australia. II. Information Gaps - 2004
• Review of methods used to estimate the abundance of feral cats - 2005
• Review of impacts of displaced/introduced fauna associated with inland waters, Australia: State of the Environment technical paper series (inland waters), series 1 - 1997
• Threat abatement plans

Insects and other invertebrates

• Overview of feral and managed honeybees in Australia: distribution, abundance, extent of interactions with native biota, evidence of impacts and future research - 1996

Posters

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Migratory species

Books and reports

• Asia-Pacific Migratory Waterbird Conservation Strategy: 2001-2005 - 2000
• Feathers, flyways and fast food - 2002
• Migratory Shorebirds of the East Asian - Australasian Flyway: Population estimates and internationally important sites - 2008
• A national plan for shorebird conservation in Australia (edited) - 1993
• Safe landings: conservation of migratory shorebirds in the east Asian-Australasian flyway - 2002
• Shorebirds of the Yellow Sea - 2002
• Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds - 2006
  • Background Paper to the Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds - 2005
  • Issues to consider in the development of a Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds - 2004
• Wings across the water: migratory shorebirds in the east Asian-Australasian flyway - 2002

Posters (Only available within Australia, limit of 6)

• Migratory species posters

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Threatened species and ecological communities

EPBC Act policy statements

• About EPBC Act policy statements
• 3.2 Grey-headed flying fox - 2003
• 3.3 Spectacled flying fox - 2003
• 3.4 Tiger quoll - 2004
• 3.4 Spot-tailed quoll - draft - 2009
• 3.5 White box - yellow box - Blakely's red gum grassy woodlands and derived native grasslands - 2006
• 3.6 Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) - 2006
• 3.7 Peppermint box (Eucalyptus odorata) grassy woodland of South Australia and iron-grass natural temperate grassland of South Australia - 2007
• 3.8 Natural temperate grassland of the Victorian volcanic plain - 2008
• 3.9 Littoral rainforest and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia - 2009
• 3.10 Western ringtail possum in the southern Swan coastal plain, WA - 2009
• 3.11 Spiny rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens) - draft - 2009
• 3.12 Golden sun moth - draft - 2009
• 3.13 Black-throated finch (southern) (Poephila cincta cincta) - draft - 2009
• 3.14 Growling grass frog - draft - 2009
• 3.15 Endangered southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) Wet Tropics Population - draft - July 2009
• 3.16 Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens - September 2009
• 3.17 Weeping Myall Woodlands - September 2009
• 3.18 Lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - October 2009

Books and reports

• Annual reports - Threatened Species Scientific Committee
• Back from the brink: Refining the threatened species recovery process - conference proceedings - 1996
• Declines and Disappearances of Australian Frogs - workshop proceedings - 1999
• Description of Ecological Communities: Arid Eucalypt Woodlands - October 2004
• National Threatened Frog Workshop - Abstracts - November 1997
• Recent Surveys of the Cocos Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi) - October 2005
• A survey of the terrestrial reptiles of Norfolk Island - March 2005 - September 2006

Plans

• Action Plans and Conservation Overviews
  • The Action Plan for Australian Birds - 2000 (order printed copy)
  • The Action Plan for Australian Butterflies - 2003 (order printed copy)

Recovery plans

• Draft recovery plans open for public comment
• Recovery plans made or adopted - Common name order | Scientific name order
• Recovery plans in preparation
• Background information for the Abbott's Booby (Papsasula abbotti) Recovery Plan - 2001
• Revised Recovery Plan Guidelines for Nationally Listed Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - 2002

Threat abatement plans

• Approved threat abatement plans
• Draft threat abatement plans open for public comment
• Threat Abatement Plan For Competition and Land Degradation by Rabbits - 2008
• Threat Abatement Plan For Competition and Land Degradation by Unmanaged Goats - 2008 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan for Infection of Amphibians with Chytrid Fungus Resulting in Chytridiomycosis - 2006 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan For Predation by Feral Cats - 2008 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan For Predation by the European Red Fox - 2008 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan for Predation, Habitat Degradation, Competition and Disease Transmission by Feral Pigs - 2005 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan for Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease affecting Endangered Psittacine Species - 2005 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan for Reduction in Impacts of Tramp Ants on Biodiversity in Australia and its Territories - 2006 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan for Reduction in Impacts of Tramp Ants on Biodiversity in Australia and its Territories: Background Document - 2006 (order printed copy)
• Threat Abatement Plan to Reduce the Impacts of Exotic Rodents on Biodiversity on Australian Offshore Islands of Less Than 100 000 ectares - 2009 (order printed copy)

Brochures and fact sheets

Nationally threatened ecological community fact sheets and guides

• Black Gum-South Esk Pine Forest (Tasmania) - 2004 (order printed copy)
• Blue Gum High Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion (fact sheet) - August 2005 (order printed copy)
• Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla dominant and co-dominant) (Qld) - December 2001
• Farming and nationally protected lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - fact sheet - 2009
• Farming and nationally protected grasslands and woodlands of the Victorian volcanic plain - fact sheet - 2009
• Listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes - EPBC Act fact sheet
• Mabi Forest - 2004 (order printed copy)
• Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet
• Swamp Tea-tree (Melaleuca irbyana) Forest of South-east Queensland - April 2005
• Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula - February 2003 (order printed copy)
• Temperate Highland Peat Swamp on Sandstone) - 2005
• Turpentine-Ironbark Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion - fact sheet - September 2005 (order printed copy)
• Upland Wetlands of the New England Tablelands and the Monaro Plateau - November 2005 (order printed copy)
• White Box - Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands (NSW) - May 2006

Nationally threatened species fact sheets

• Australian Government and Northern Territory Government Species Information Partnership - September 2006 (order printed copy)
• Australian Government-South Australian Government Species Information Partnership - February 2007 (order printed copy)
• Australian Government and Western Australian Government Species Information Partnership - September 2006 (order printed copy)
• Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) - August 2003
• Australian Painted Snipe (Rostratula australis) - September 2003
• Listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes - EPBC Act fact sheet
• Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii) - July 2003
• Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet
• Round Island Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - North Keeling Island - English Version - July 2003
• Round Island Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - Burung Petrel Pulu Round (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - Pulu Keeling - Cocos Malay Version - July 2003
• Saving the Orange-bellied Parrot - September 2006 (order printed copy)

Key Threatening Processes fact sheets

• Listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes - EPBC Act fact sheet - 2007
• Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet - 2007
• Harmful Marine Debris - 2003

Threatened Species Day fact sheets

• Angle-stemmed myrtle (Austromyrtus gonoclada) (Qld) - 2002
• Aquatic root mat communities of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge caves (WA) - 2002
• Australian frogs - 2003
• Australian frogs - an overview
• Australian sea-lion (Neophoca cinerea)
• Bead glasswort (Halosarcia flabelliformis) (SA) - 2002
• Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) (NT/QLD/WA)
• Border heath (Epacris limbata) (Tas) - 2002
• Boronia viridiflora - 2006
• Brigalow Belt Forests in Queensland (Qld)
• Brush-tailed rock-wallaby - 2008
• Bulloke woodlands - 2008
• Bush stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius - 2005
• Carnaby's black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris)- 2004 (order printed copy)
• Carnaby's black-cockatoo - 2008
• Cumberland Plain Ecological Communities - 2005 (order printed copy)
• Cumberland Plain Woodland (NSW/ACT)
• Darwin Palm (Ptychosperma bleeseri) (NT) - 2003
• Declining Frogs In Australia
• Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) - 2005
• Eastern Lined Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis lineata pinguicolla) (NSW/ACT)
• Extinction is forever: five ways you can help save threatened species
• False water rat (Xeromys myoides) (2002) (Qld) - 2002
• False water rat (Xeromys myoides) (2003) (Qld) - 2003
• Finke goby (Chlamydogobius japalpa) (NT) - 2003
• Flatback turtle (Natator depressus) - 2005
• Flatback turtle - 2008
• Fleay’s barred frog (Mixophyes fleayi) - 2006
• Frogs of Australia - 2004
• Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) (NT) - 2002
• Gouldian finch - 2008
• Grampians pincushion lily (Borya mirabilis) (Vic)
• Grampians pincushion lily (Borya mirabilis) (2002) (Vic) - 2002
• Grassy white box woodlands (Vic/NSW/Qld)
• Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) - 2006
• Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) - 2004 (order printed copy)
• Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) (2002) (SA) - 2002
• Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) - 2005
• Green consumer guide to threatened species: 45 ways you can help - March 2000
• Green kids guide to threatened species: 9 ways you can help - 2000
• Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) - 2006
• Grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) - 2004
• Hindmarsh correa Correa calycina - 2005 (order printed copy)
• Julia Creek Dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) - 2005
• Large-club spider-orchid (Caladenia macroclavia syn. Arachnorchis macroclavia) - 2004
• Lord Howe Island Phasmid (Dryococelus australis) (NSW) - 2002
• MacDonnell Ranges cycad (Macrozamia macdonnellii) (NT) - 2002
• Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) - 2005
• Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) - 2006
• McCutcheon's grevillea (Grevillea maccutcheonii) (WA)
• Miena cider gum Eucalyptus gunnii ssp. divaricata - 2006
• Monaro golden daisy (Rutidosis leiolepis) (NSW/ACT)
• Mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) (Vic) - 2002
• Mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) - 2005
• Mount lofty ranges southern emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus intermedius) (SA) - 2003
• Nationally threatened birds of the Murray-Darling Basin
• Nationally threatened birds of the western wheatbelt
• Natural temperate grasslands (Southern Tablelands) (NSW)
• Nightcap oak (Eidothea sp. Nightcap Range) (NSW) - 2002
• Northern hairy-nosed wombat - 1998 (order printed copy)
• Northern hopping-mouse (Notomys aquilo) - 2007
• Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) - 2005
• Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
• Pilbara olive python (Liasis olivaceus barroni) (WA) - 2002
• Plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus) (Qld/Vic)
• Protecting Australia's Threatened Species (2002) - 2002
• Protecting Australia's Threatened Species (2003) - 2003
• Quolls of Australia (2003) - 2003
• Quolls of Australia (2004) (All States) - 2004
• Regent honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia) (NSW/Vic)
• Rose mallee (Eucalyptus rhodantha) (WA)
• Southern cassowary - 2004
• Southern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) (ACT) - 2002
• Southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops) (WA/NT/SA)
• Spot-tailed quoll - 2008
• Spotted hand fish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) (Tas) - 2002
• Spotted tree frog (Litoria spenceri) (Vic) - 2003
• Superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) - 2005
• Tasmanian Forest Epacrids (Tas)
• Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster (Astacopsis gouldi) (Tas)
• Tasmania's Threatened Galaxiids (Tas) - 2003
• Threatened Australian Plants - 2004
• Threatened Orchids of the Mt Lofty and Southern Flinders Ranges (SA)
• Threatened Species and the Built Environment - 2004
• Threatened Species and Ecological Communities in Australia - 2004
• Tiger quoll, Spotted-tailed quoll or Spot-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - 2004
• Toolibin lake - 2008
• Trout cod (Blue-nose or Rock cod) - 2003
• Tuggeranong Lignum (Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong) (ACT) - 2002
• Undoolya Wattle or Sickle-leaf Wattle (Acacia undoolyana) (NT)
• Watery Worlds - 2003
• Western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis) - 2007
• Western swamp tortoise (Pseudemydura umbrina) - 2003
• Yakka skink - 2008

Threatened Species Day Kit

• 2007 Threatened Species Day Kit (order printed copy)

Newsletters

• Communities for Communities - Threatened ecological communities newsletter

Posters and stickers (Only available within Australia, limit of 6)

• Threatened species posters and stickers

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Weeds

Books and reports

• Introductory Weed Management Manual (training manual for groups involved in weed management - limit of 1 per order) (order printed copy)
• Community Involvement in Off-Reserve and On-Reserve Management of Environmental Weeds  - 1997
• Impact of Environmental Weeds on Biodiversity: A Review and Development of Methodology  - 1998 (order printed copy)
• Potential Environmental Weeds in Australia;Candidate Species for Preventative Control  - 1998 (order printed copy)

Brochures and fact sheets

• Weeds of National Significance Weed Management Guides  - 2003
  • Alligator weed  (Alternanthera philoxeroides) (order printed copy)
  • Athel pine or tamarisk  (Tamarix aphylla) (order printed copy)
  • Bitou bush  (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. rotundata) (order printed copy)
  • Boneseed  (Chrysanthemoides monilifera ssp. monilifera) (order printed copy)
  • Blackberry  (Rubus fruticosus aggregate)
  • Bridal creeper  (Asparagus asparagoides)
  • Cabomba  (Cabomba caroliniana) (order printed copy)
  • Chilean needle grass  (Nassella neesiana)
  • Gorse  (Ulex europaeus) (order printed copy)
  • Hymenachne or Olive hymenachne  (Hymenachne amplexicaulis) (order printed copy)
  • Lantana  (Lantana camara) (order printed copy)
  • Mimosa  (Mimosa pigra) (order printed copy)
  • Parkinsonia (order printed copy)
  • Parthenium weed  (Parthenium hysterophorus) (order printed copy)
  • Pond apple  (Annona glabra) (order printed copy)
  • Prickly acacia  (Acacia nilotica) (order printed copy)
  • Rubber vine  (Cryptostegia grandiflora) (order printed copy)
  • Salvinia  (Salvinia molesta) (order printed copy)
  • Willow  (Salix spp.)
• Weeds and Ferals on the Loose! (order printed copy)
• Weeds on the National Environmental Alert List: Weed Management Guides  - 2003
  • Barleria or porcupine flower  (Barleria prionitis) (order printed copy)
  • Blue hound's tongue  (Cynoglossum creticum)(order printed copy)
  • Chinese violet  (Asystasia gangetica ssp. micrantha) (order printed copy)
  • Cane needle grass  (Nassella hyalina) (order printed copy)
  • Chinese rain tree  (Koelreuteria elegans ssp.formosana) (order printed copy)
  • Cutch tree  (Acacia catechu) (order printed copy)
  • Cyperus  (Cyperus teneristolon) (order printed copy)
  • False yellowhead  (Dittrichia viscosa) (order printed copy)
  • Garden geranium  (Pelargonium alchemilloides) (order printed copy)
  • Heather  (Calluna vulgaris) (order printed copy)
  • Holly leaved senecio  (Senecio glastifolius) (order printed copy)
  • Horsetails  (Equisetum species) (order printed copy)
  • Karroo thorn  (Acacia karroo species) (order printed copy)
  • Kochia  (Bassia scoparia) (order printed copy)
  • Lagarosiphon  (Lagarosiphon major) (order printed copy)
  • Laurel clock vine  (Thunbergia laurifolia) (order printed copy)
  • Leaf cactus  (Pereskia aculeata) (order printed copy)
  • Lobed needle grass  (Nassella charruana) (order printed copy)
  • Orange hawkweed  (Hieracium aurantiacum) (order printed copy)
  • Praxelis  (Praxelis clematidea) (order printed copy)
  • Rosewood or tipuana tree  (Tipuana tipu) (order printed copy)
  • Senegal tea plant  (Gymnocoronis spilanthoides) (order printed copy)
  • Siam weed or chromolaena  (Chromolaena odorata) (order printed copy)
  • Subterranean Cape sedge  (Trianoptiles solitaria) (order printed copy)
  • Uruguayan rice grass (Piptochaetium montevidense) (order printed copy)
  • White spanish broom  (Cytisus multiflorus) (order printed copy)
  • White weeping broom  (Retama raetam) (order printed copy)
  • Yellow Soldier  (Lachenalia reflexa) (order printed copy)

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Coasts and oceans

General

Books and reports

• Australia's National Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities - Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council, 2006
• Beyond Biodiversity: Sustainable conservation and development of the oceans using Ecosystem Based Management (EBM)
• Commonwealth Coastal Policy - 1995
• Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for Australia - an ecosystem-based classification for marine and coastal environments - June 1998
• A National Approach to Addressing Marine Biodiversity Decline - Report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council - April 2008
• National Cooperative Approach to Integrated Coastal Zone Management: Framework and Implementation Plan - 2006 (order printed copy)

Newsletters

• Oceans Action Bulletin
• Waves magazine: Topical review of marine & coastal issues  - Marine Coastal Community Network

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Australia's oceans policy

Books and reports

• Australia's Oceans Policy Volume 1 - Caring, Understanding, Using Wisely - December 1998
• Australia's Oceans Policy Volume 2 - Specific Sectoral Measures - December 1998
• Australian Oceans Forum Report 1997
• Australian Oceans Forum Report 2000
• Australia's Oceans, New Horizons 1997
• Australia's Oceans New Horizons: supporting policy statement 1997
• Marine Industry Development Strategy 1997
• Marine Science & Technology Plan 1999
• Marine Science & Technology Plan - An Overview 1999
• Oceans Policy - Principles and Processes 2003
• Report of the Ministerial Advisory Group on Oceans Policy 1998
• Review of the Implementation of Oceans Policy 2002
• Archived publications

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Coastal and marine pollution

Books and reports

Antifouling

• Code of Practice for Antifouling and In-water Hull Cleaning and Maintenance - 1997
• International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling System on Ships, 2001
• An Introduction to Acid Sulfate Soils - 2000
• Introduction to Urban Stormwater Management in Australia - 2002
• Marine Debris in Northern Australian Waters 2004 - April 2005
• Pilot investigation of the origins and pathways of marine debris found in the northern Australian marine environment - July 2008
• Reducing the Impacts of Shipping Operations on the Marine Environment: An Information Register - Report Series, Commonwealth Coastal Action Program, No 8, 1996
• TBT analysis protocol development and current contamination assessment - 2004

Guidelines

• Best Practice Guidelines for Waste Reception Facilities at Ports, Marinas and Boat Harbours in Australia and New Zealand
• ANZECC Maritime Accidents and Pollution Strategy
• National Assessment Guidelines for Dredging 2009 (order printed copy)
• National Ocean Disposal Guidelines for Dredged Material - 2002

Brochures and fact sheets

• Artificial Reefs
• Dumping Wastes at Sea

Permit application forms - Environment Protection (Sea Dumping) Act 1981

• Dispose of Dredge or Excavation Material at Sea Permit Application Form
• Dispose of Vessels at Sea Permit Application Form
• Artificial Reef Permit Application Form
• Burial at Sea Permit Application Form
• Dispose of a Fish Waste or Material Resulting from Industrial Fish Processing Operation at Sea Permit Application Form
• Dispose Bulky Items from Small Islands Into the Sea Permit Application Form

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Coastal wetlands

Books and reports

• Great Barrier Reef Coastal Wetlands Protection Programe - Pilot Program 2005-2007 - Final Report
• Estimated Areas of Wetlands in the Australian Coastal Zone - CSIRO, 1994
• Towards the development of a decision support system to select wetlands for strategic intervention: Report of a technical workshop held in Townsville 8-9 December 2003 - 2004

Brochures and fact sheets

• Wetland management in the Great Barrier Reef catchment - information sheet - 2004

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Fisheries and the environment

Books and reports

General

• Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries
• A Review and Synthesis of Australian Fisheries Habitat Research
  

Commonwealth fishery reports

• Assessment of Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Skipjack Tuna Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Torres Strait Trochus Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the Coral Sea Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Northern Prawn Fishery - 2003
• Assessment of the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery - 2008
• Assessment of the Southern Squid Jig Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Southern and Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Torres Strait Tropical Rock Lobster Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Trawl Fisheries - 2007
• Assessment of Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery - 2006
• Assessment of Bass Strait Scallop Central Zone Fishery - 2002
• Assessment of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery - 2002

New South Wales fishery reports

• Assessment of New South Wales Abalone fishery - 2006
• Assessment of the New South Wales Estuary Prawn Trawl Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of New South Wales Estuary General Fishery - 2003
• Assessment of New South Wales Ocean Hauling Fishery - 2003

Northern Territory fishery reports

• Assessment of Northern Territory Shark Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Northern Territory Aquarium Fishery - 2008
• Assessment of the Northern Territory Demersal Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Northern Territory Finfish Trawl Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Northern Territory Trepang Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Northern Territory Spanish Mackerel Fishery - 2008
• Assessment of Northern Territory Timor Reef Fishery - 2008
• Assessment of the Northern Territory Mud Crab Fishery - 2002

Queensland fishery reports

• Assessment of Queensland Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Queensland Deepwater Finfish Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Queensland East Coast Pearl Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Queensland East Coast Trochus Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Queensland Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Queensland Rocky Reef Finfish Fishery - 2008
• Assessment of the Queensland Blue Swimmer Crab Pot Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland Developmental Slipper Lobster Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Queensland East Coast Beche-de-mer Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Queensland East Coast Spanish Mackerel Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland East Coast Tropical Rock Lobster Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland Eel Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Queensland Finfish (Stout Whiting) Trawl Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Developmental Finfish Trawl Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Inshore Finfish Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria Line Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland Marine Specimen Shell Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Queensland Moreton Bay Developmental Beche-de-mer Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Queensland Mud Crab Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Queensland Spanner Crab Fishery - 2007

South Australian fishery reports

• Assessment of the South Australian Lakes and Coorong Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the South Australian Marine Scalefish Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the South Australian Abalone Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the South Australian Beach-cast Seagrass and Marine Algae Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the South Australian Blue Crab Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the South Australian Giant Crab Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the South Australian Pilchard Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the South Australian Prawn Trawl Fisheries - 2004
• Assessment of the South Australian Specimen Shell Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of South Australian Rock Lobster Fishery - 2003

Tasmanian fishery reports

• Assessment of Tasmanian Commercial Dive Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the Tasmanian Kelp Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Tasmanian Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the Tasmanian Scalaris Abalone Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Tasmanian Scallop Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the Tasmanian Freshwater Eel Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Tasmanian Native Oyster Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Tasmanian Rock Lobster Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of Tasmanian Giant Crab Fishery - 2006
• Assessment of the Tasmanian Abalone Fishery - 2007

Victorian fishery reports

• Assessment of Victorian Sea Urchin Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the Victorian Eel Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Victorian Giant Crab Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Victorian Rock Lobster Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of Victorian Abalone Fishery - 2003
• Assessment of the Victorian Developmental Jellyfish Fishery - 2003

Western Australian fishery reports

• Assessment of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Western Australian Abrolhos Island and Mid West Trawl Managed Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Western Australian Marine Aquarium Fish Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Western Australian Specimen Shell Managed Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of Western Australian West Coast Purse Seine Managed Fishery and South Coast Purse Seine Managed Fishery - 2005
• Assessment of the Northern Demersal Scalefish Managed Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Onslow and Nickol Bay Prawn Managed Fisheries - 2004
• Assessment of the West Coast Deep Sea Crab Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Western Australian Abalone Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian Beche-de-mer Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Western Australian Broome Prawn Managed Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian Kimberley Prawn Managed Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian Mackerel Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian Pilbara Trap Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian Salmon Managed Fisheries - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian Shark Bay Experimental Crab Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of Western Australian Shark Bay Snapper Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian South Coast Crustean Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of Western Australian Pearl Oyster Fishery - 2004
• Assessment of the Western Australian Exmouth Gulf Prawn Fishery - 2008
• Assessment of the Western Australian Shark Bay Prawn Trawl Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Western Australian Shark Bay Scallop Fishery - 2007
• Assessment of the Western Rock Lobster Fishery - 2002

Brochures and fact sheets

• Information sheets
  • Fisheries Assessments, September 2003
  • Exporting of marine wildlife or wildlife products for commercial purposes, September 2003
  • Interaction with Protected Species - under revision
  • Trade of syngnathids and solenostomids, September 2003
• Wildlife Protection (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1982 (Schedule 4) Benchmarks for the Environmental Assessment of Fisheries

Newsletter

• CatchUp newsletter

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International marine issues

Conference and workshop proceedings

• Workshop on the Governance of High Seas Biodiversity Conservation

Newsletters

• London Convention Newsletter No 1 - 2002
• London Convention Newsletter No 2 - 2002
• London Convention Newsletter No 3 - 2002

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Introduced marine pests

Books and reports

• Antifouling performance standards for the Maritime industry: Development of a framework for assessment, approval and relevance of effective products - 2007
• Controlling the Northern Pacific Seastar (Asterias amurensis) in Australia - 2004
• Development of genetic probes for rapid assessment of the impacts of marine invasive species on native biodiversity - Maoricolpus roseus - 2004
• Empirical validation: Small vessel translocation of key threatening species - Stage I - Asterias amurensis - 2004
• Empirical Validation - Stage II: Small Vessel Translocation of Key Threatening Species - Asterias amurensis and Undaria pinnatifida - 2007
• Eradicating and preventing the spread of the invasive alga Caulerpa taxifolia in NSW - 2004
• Evaluation of the Hastings National Demonstration Project - 2003
• Feasibility study for genetic control of Caulerpa in SA and NSW - 2004
• Minimising Impacts of the North Pacific Seastar in Australia - 2004
• National Control Plan for Northern Pacific Seastar (Asterias amurensis): workshop proceedings - 2002
• Report of the National Taskforce on the Prevention and Management of Marine Pest Incursions - 2000
• Domestic Vessel Movements and the Spread of Marine Pests - 2003
• The effectiveness of Australia's response to the Black Striped Mussel incursion in Darwin, Australia - 2000
• The Australian pilot project for the treatment of ships' ballast water - 2004

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Marine bioregional planning

Books and reports

• Marine Matters National: Atlas of Australian Marine Fishing and Coastal Communities
• Economic Contribution of Australia's Marine Industries 1995-96 to 2002-03
• National Marine Atlas. Non-Fisheries Uses in Australia's Marine Jurisdiction
• Stocktake of Environmental, Socio-economic and Governance Performance Assessment Systems in use by Australian Governments

Northern Marine Region

Books and reports

• Biological Survey of the Arafura sea
• Coral survey at selected sites in Arnhem Land
• Determining feasibility of acoustic tag attachment and documenting short-term movements in Pristis zijsron
• Finding Solutions - Marine Debris report
• Key Species
• Living on Saltwater Country
• Living on Saltwater Country: Cape York Peninsula Sea Country Management, Needs and Issues
• Living on Saltwater Country: Southern Gulf of Carpentaria Sea Country Management, Needs and Issues
• Living on Saltwater Country: Goulburn Island to the QLD Border Sea Country Management, Needs and Issues
• North Marine Bioregional Plan - Bioregional Profile - 2008 (order printed copy)
• North Marine Bioregional Plan - Bioregional Profile and Background Reports (CD) 2008 - 2008 (order printed copy)
• Northern Fisheries Atlas
• Northern Marine Atlas
• Northern Scoping Report
• Northern Snapshot
• Queenfish Report
• Socio-economic Overview of the Northern Planning Area 
• Torres Strait Islanders and fisheries: an analysis of economic development programs
• Torres Strait Seabed & Water-Column Data Collation, Bio-physical Modeling and Characterization
• Tradition and Legislation: Analysis of Torres Strait Treaty and Fisheries Act Terms

Brochures and fact sheets

• The way ahead for Australia's Northern Oceans

North-west Marine Region

Brochures and fact sheets

• The way ahead for Australia's North-west Oceans

News updates

• East Marine Region news

Books and Reports

• As Far as the Eye Can See: Indigenous Interests in the East Marine Planning Region
• Assessment of the conservation values of the Norfolk Seamounts area
• Characterisation of the marine environment of the East Marine Region
• Description of commercial, recreational and charter fishing activities in the East Marine Region
• Description of Key Species Groups in the East Marine Region
• East Marine Bioregional Plan Bioregional Profile
• Ecosystems of the East Marine Region
• Non-fisheries Resource Use Activities in the East Marine Planning Region
• Sedimentology and Geomorphology of the East Marine region of Australia - A Spatial Analysis - 2008

Workshop reports

• Executive Summary - EMR Strategic Regional Assessment Workshop - North (PDF - 97 KB) |   (RTF - 63 KB)
• Executive Summary - EMR Strategic Regional Assessment Workshop - South (PDF - 98 KB) |  (RTF - 65 KB)

Brochures and fact sheets

• The way ahead for Australia's eastern oceans
• Coral Sea Conservation Zone fact sheet (PDF - 306 KB) |  (RTF - 278 KB)
• Commercial tourism operations in the Coral Sea (PDF - 306 KB) |  (RTF - 36 KB)
• Commercial fishing in the Coral Sea Conservation Zone (PDF - 283 KB) |  (RTF - 34 KB)
• Recreational fishing in the Coral Sea Conservation Zone (PDF - 268 KB) |  (RTF - 35 KB)

North Marine Region

Brochures and fact sheets

• Marine Bioregional Planning - North Marine Regions - information sheet, 2009
• The way ahead for Australia's northern oceans

Books and reports

• Age, growth and reproductive dynamics of the Talang Queenfish (Scomberoides commersonnianus) in Northern Australia
• Biological survey of the Arafura Sea
• Bioregional profile - North Marine Bioregional Plan Bioregional Profile
• Characterisation of the marine environment of the North Marine Region
• Coral survey at selected sites in Arnhem Land
• Determining feasibility of acoustic tag attachment and documenting short-term movements in Pristis zijsron
• Finding solutions: Derelict fishing gear and other marine debris in Northern Australia
• Key Species: a description of Key Species groups in the Northern Planning Area
• Living on Saltwater Country: Cape York Peninsula Sea Country Management, needs and issues
• Living on Saltwater Country: Goulburn Island to the QLD Border Sea Country Management, needs and issues
• Living on Saltwater Country: Review of literature about Aboriginal rights, use, management and interests in northern Australian marine environments
• Living on Saltwater Country: Southern Gulf of Carpentaria Sea Country Management, needs and issues
• Northern Marine Atlas: Fisheries uses and social indicators in Australia’s marine jurisdiction
• Northern Marine Atlas: Non-fisheries uses in Australia's marine jurisdiction
• Scoping report for the Northern Planning Area
• Snapshot of the Northern Planning Area
• Socio-economic overview of the Northern Planning Area 
• A survey of intertidal seagrass from Van Diemen Gulf to Castlereagh Bay, Northern Territory, and from Gove to Horn Island, Queensland
• Torres Strait Islanders and fisheries: an analysis of economic development programs
• Torres Strait seabed & water-column data collation, bio-physical modeling and characterization
• Tradition and legislation: Analysis of Torres Strait Treaty and Fisheries Act terms

North-west Marine Region

Brochures and fact sheets

• Marine Bioregional Planning - North-west Marine Region - 2009
• The way ahead for Australia's north-west oceans - 2007

Reports

• Bioregional profile - North-west Marine Bioregional Plan Bioregional Profile - 2008
• The development, status and socio-economic linkages of key industries within and adjacent to the North-west Marine Region - 2007
• Description paper for Areas for Further Assessment in the North-west Marine Region - 2009
• A characterisation of the marine environment of the North-west Marine Region
• Petroleum and minerals industries in the North-west Marine Region
• Sea countries of the North-west
• Sedimentology and geomorphology of the North-west Marine Region
• A socio-economic overview of the coastal communities adjacent to the North-west Marine Region
• Trophic systems of the North-west Marine Region

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South-east Marine Region

Books and reports

• Communities: Connecting with the ocean
• A discussion paper for advancing the South-east Regional Marine Plan
• Ecosystems: Nature's diversity
• Impact from the ocean/land interface
• Impact of aquaculture
• Impacts: Identifying disturbances
• Impacts of shipping
• Impacts on the natural system - Chapter 4: Impacts of petroleum
• Interim Bioregionalisation for the continental slope and deeper waters of the South-East Marine Region of Australia
• Key economic issues facing marine based industries in the South East Marine Region
• Maps of the South-east Marine Region
• Marine Matters: Atlas of marine activities and coastal communities in Australia's South-East Marine Region 
• Marine Matters: Social contributions of marine uses to communities in the south east region of Australia 
• Non-market economic values and the South-east Marine Region
• Ocean management: the legal framework
• Pressures on uses in the South-east Marine Region
• Resources: Macquarie Island's picture
• Resources: Using the ocean
• The right bait: Social contributions of tourism charter operation to St Helens, Tasmania 
• Risk assessment for environmental management of the marine environment
• Sea Country: an Indigenous perspective
• South-east Regional Marine Plan: Implementing Australia's Oceans Policy in the South-East Marine Region - 2004 (order printed copy)
• South-east Regional Marine Plan - Scoping paper
• Snapshot of the South-east
• A summary paper: Glimpses of the South-east Marine Region
• Targeted review of biological and ecological information from fisheries research in the South-east Marine Region
• Technical review of impacts matrices - Final report

Plans

• Kooyang Sea Country Plan
• The South-east Regional Marine Plan: Implementing Australia's oceans policy in the South-east Marine Region

Brochures and fact sheets

• Marine Bioregional Planning
• South-east Regional Marine Plan - Brochure

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South-west Marine Region

Brochures and fact sheets

• The way ahead for Australia's south-west oceans

Books and reports

• Bioregional profile - The South-West Marine Bioregional Plan: Bioregional Profile and Background Reports (CD) - 2007 (order printed copy)
• Characterisation of the marine environment of the South-west Marine Region
• Ecological importance of small pelagic fishes in the Flinders Current System
• Geomorphology and sedimentology of the South Western Planning Area of Australia
• Marine Bioregional Planning in the South-west Marine Region - Areas for Further Assessment - 2009
• Patterns of future developments in the South-west Marine Region
• Sedimentology and Geomorphology of the South West Planning Region of Australia - A spatial analysis
• A Socio-economic Analysis and Description of the Marine Industries of Australia's South-west Marine Region
• The South-west Marine Region: Ecosystems and Key Species Groups
• Understanding areas of high productivity within the South-west Marine Region
• Western rock lobster in ecosystem processes of south-western Australia

Updates

• South-west Marine Bioregional planning updates

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Marine Protected Areas

Establishing and managing Commonwealth marine protected areas

• Assessment of the Conservation Values of the Bonney Upwelling (Blue Whale Aggregation) Area - 2002
• Assessment of the Conservation Values of the Bass Strait Sponge Beds Area - 2002
• Australian IUCN Reserve Management Principles for Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas - 2002
• Australia's South-east Marine Region: A User's Guide to Identifying Candidate Areas for a Regional Representative System of Marine Protected Areas- 2003
• The Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas Program - 2003
• Crossing Borders: Implications of the Memorandum of Understanding on Bajo fishing activity in northern Australian waters - 2001
• Data Layers and Metadata to Assist in the Selection of Candidate MPAs in the SEMR - Draft - 2003
• 5th IUCN World Parks Congress - Durban, South Africa - 2003
  Discussion papers for the marine theme workshops:
  • Benefits of marine protected areas - Discussion paper
  • Benefits of marine protected areas - Technical paper
  • Marine protected areas in ecosystem-based management of fisheries
• Rapid Assessment of Australian MPAs using Satellite Remote Sensing - 2001
  • Part 2: Validation of Biological Response to Physical Environment - 2001

Visitor information brochures

• Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island Reserves Brochure - 2002
• Ashmore Reef National Nature Reserve and Cartier Island Marine Reserve - Information for Visitors - June 2009 (order printed copy)
• Coral Sea National Nature Reserves Brochure - 2002
• Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs Marine National Nature Reserve Brochure - 2002
• Great Australian Bight Marine Park: Information for Park Users  - Prepared by SA Government on behalf of GABMP Steering Committee
• Mermaid Reef Marine National Nature Reserve Brochure - 2005
• Mermaid reef marine national nature reserve - Information for Visitors - May 2009 (order printed copy)
• Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters): Information for commercial fishers and commercial charter fishing operators - 2002
• Ningaloo Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) - Information for Visitors - June 2009 (order printed copy)

National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas

• Australia's Marine Protected Areas DVD - June 2008 (order printed copy)
• Australia's Marine Protected Areas: Protecting our Coasts and Oceans (order printed copy)
• Interim Marine Bioregionalisation for Australia - Towards a National System of Marine Protected Areas  - 1996
• Guidelines for Establishing the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas - 1998
• Progress in implementing the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas (NRSMPA) - 2008
• Socio-economic Impact Assessment Toolkit; A guide to assessing the socio-economic impacts of Marine Protected Areas in Australia - 2005
• Strategic Plan of Action for the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas - 1999
  • Action 6: Status of Ecosystem Mapping for NRSMPA - 2000
  • Action 8: Review of Methods for Ecosystem Mapping for NRSMPA - 2000
• Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas in Australia - 1997
• Understanding and Applying the Principles of Comprehensiveness, Adequacy and Representativeness for the NRSMPA - 1999

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Marine species

Recovery plans

• Recovery Plan for Albatrosses and Giant-petrels - 2001
• Recovery Plan for four species of Handfish - 2005
• Recovery Plan for Great White Sharks Carcharodon carcharias in Australia - 2002
• Recovery Plan for Grey Nurse Sharks Carcharias taurus in Australia - 2002
• Recovery Plan for Marine Turtles in Australia - July 2003
• Recovery Plan for Sub-Antarctic Fur Seal and Southern Elephant Seal - 2004
• Recovery Plan for ten species of Seabirds - 2005
• Recovery Plan for Whale Shark - 2005

Marine invertebrates

Plans

• The Overview of the Conservation Status of Australia's Marine Invertebrates
• Threat abatement plan for the impacts of marine debris on vertebrate marine life - May 2009 (order printed copy)

Marine turtles

Books and reports

• Identifying the links between nesting and foraging grounds for the Olive Ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) sea turtles in northern Australia - Project final report - July 2007
• Improving survivorship of the nests of the endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles - the reductions of feral dog numbers from northern beaches on Melville Island, Tiwi Islands, NT - May 2004
• Olive Ridley nesting and foraging grounds - July 2007
• Pilot study of Loggerhead Turtles in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area: Movements and community based conservation - November 2004
• Population genetics of Southeast Asian and Western Pacific green turtles, Chelonia mydas - 2002
• Sea Turtle conservation and education on the Tiwi Islands - August 2007

Brochures and fact sheets

• Protected Marine Species Identification Guide - factsheets on marine protected species

Newsletters

• Marine Turtle Recovery Newsletter

Seabirds

Books and reports

• Albatrosses and petrels in Australia: a review of their conservation and management report - (publication housed on CSIRO website)
• Survey and Stock Size Estimates of the Shallow Reef (0-15m Deep and Shoal Area (15-50m deep) Marine Resources and Habitat Mapping Within the Timor Sea MOU74 Box - Volume 3: Seabirds and Shorebirds of Ashmore Reef - 1999

Brochures and fact sheets

• Protected Marine Species Identification Guide

Plans

• Recovery Plan for Albatrosses and Giant-petrels - 2001
• Threat Abatement Plan for the Incidental Catch (or by-catch) of Seabirds During Oceanic Longline Fishing Operations - 1998

Seals and sea lions

Brochures and fact sheets

• Protected Marine Species Identification Guide

Guidelines

• Guidelines for Monitoring Abundance of Australian Sea Lions

Plans

• The Action Plan for Australian Seals - 1999
• Sub-antarctic fur seal and southern elephant seal recovery plan 2004-2009 - 2004

Sharks

Books and reports

General

• Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) CITES identification sheet - September 2007
• World Shark Catch, Production and Trade 1990 - 2003 - 2006

Action plan

• Conservation Overview and Action Plan for Australian Threatened and Potentially Threatened Marine and Estuarine Fishes - February 2002

Recovery plans

• Recovery Plan for Grey Nurse Sharks Carcharias taurus in Australia - June 2002
• Recovery Plan for Great White Sharks Carcharodon carcharias in Australia - 2002

Elasmobranchs

• Status of Freshwater and Estuarine Elasmobranchs in Northern Australia - September 2004
• Elasmobranchs in the Fitzroy River, Western Australia - February 2004

Glyphis sp.

• Acoustic tracking of Glyphis sp. A in the Adelaide River, Northern Territory, Australia - August 2005
• Conservation assessment of Glyphis sp. A (speartooth shark), Glyphis sp. C (northern river shark), Pristis microdon (freshwater sawfish) and Pristis zijsron (green sawfish) - June 2005
• Distribution and abundance of Glyphis and sawfishes in northen Australia and their potential interactions with commercial fisheries: final report May 2008 - 2008
• Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon) and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across nothern Australia: report to May 2008 - 2008
• The northern river shark (Glyphis sp. C) in Western Australia - February 2004
• Spatial distribution and habitat utilisation of the speartooth shark Glyphis sp. A in relation to fishing in Northern Australia - 2008

Grey nurse shark

• Biology and Ecology - Grey Nurse Shark
• Code of Conduct for Diving with Grey Nurse Sharks - June 2002
• Designing protected areas for grey nurse sharks off eastern Australia - June 2005
• Identification of Western Australian Grey Nurse Shark aggregation sites - July 2005
• Investigations of Grey Nurse Shark in Queensland - December 2004
• Review of Grey Nurse Shark tagging research - October 2003

Sawfish

• Report of the Freshwater Sawfish Pristis microdon Science Workshop - June 2009
• Conservation assessment of Glyphis sp. A (speartooth shark), Glyphis sp. C (northern river shark), Pristis microdon (freshwater sawfish) and Pristis zijsron (green sawfish) - June 2005
• Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon) and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across nothern Australia: report to May 2008 - 2008

Whale sharks

• Assessing traditional ecological knowledge of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in eastern Indonesia: A pilot study with fishing communities in Nusa Tenggara Timur - 2008
• CITES Identification Manual Whale Shark - October 2002
• Population monitoring protocols for whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) - 2008
• Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) CITES identification sheet * - September 2007

White sharks

• Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) - Appendix II Listing of the White Shark (revision 1) - September 2004
• Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) - Appendix III Listing of the White Shark including identification manual - 2001
• Identifying movements and habitats of white sharks and grey nurse sharks - June 2005
• Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) CITES identification sheet * - September 2007
• Site fidelity, residence times and home range patterns of white sharks around pinniped colonies - June 2005
• Spatial dynamics and habitat preferences of juvenile white sharks: identifying critical habitat and options for monitoring recruitment: final report June 2008 - 2008
• Trial DNA testing of shark products imported into and exported from Australia to detect the presence of Great White Shark - May 2005

Videos

• Grey Nurse Sharks in the Cod Grounds Commonwealth Marine Reserve - May 2007

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Whales, dolphins and porpoises

Books and reports

• Conservation and values: Global cetacean snapshot - A progress report - June 2008
• Conserving Whales and Dolphins in Australian Waters - National Research Partnerships Workshop, Ballina NSW, 2 - 4 May 2004
• Development of Conservation Management Plans for Improved Cetacean Management and Regional Non-Lethal Collaborative Research Programs: A Proposal for the Southern Ocean - June 2008
• Marion Bay Whale Stranding - Incident Review Findings - 2005
• National Whale and Dolphin Research Conference, Adelaide 21–22 February 2006
• Review of the conservation status of Australia's smaller whales and dolphins - 2006
• A Universal Metaphor: Australia's Opposition to Commercial Whaling: Report of the National Task Force on Whaling - May 1997

Guidelines and protocols

• Australian National Guidelines for Whale and Dolphin Watching 2005 - 2006
• Interaction between offshore seismic exploration and whales - EPBC Act Policy Statement 2.1 , 2007
• Standardised protocols for the collection of biological samples from stranded cetaceans - 2006

Plans

• The Action Plan for Australian Cetaceans - 1996
• Blue, Fin and Sei Whale Recovery Plan 2005-2010 - May 2005
• Humpback Whale Recovery Plan 2005-2010 - May 2005
• Southern Right Whale Recovery Plan 2005-2010 - May 2005

Brochures and fact sheets

• International Whaling Commission (IWC) Meetings
  • International Whaling Commission 60th Annual Meeting - Fact Sheets
  • Whale Conservation and Management: A Future for the IWC - February 2008
  • How the World Benefits from Whale Sanctuaries - IWC 53rd Meeting
  • A South Pacific Whale Sanctuary - A Proposal: Agenda Paper - IWC 53rd Meeting
  • A South Pacific Whale Sanctuary Statements of Support - IWC 53rd Meeting
  • Why a South Pacific Whale Sanctuary? - IWC 53rd Meeting
  • Why Whales Don't Threaten Fish in the South Pacific - IWC 53rd Meeting
• Fishing for facts - Are whales threatening fish stocks? - March 2007
• Humpback Whales of Eastern Australia - September 2007
• Protected Marine Species Identification Guide
• Protecting Whales and Dolphins - 2006 (order printed copy)
• Watching whales and dolphins - Keep a safe distance - Fact sheet (Watching whales and dolphins safetly) folds to pocket size
• Whales and Dolphins Identification Guide
• Whales and Dolphins in Australian Waters - June 2006 (order printed copy)
• Whale Research - 2006 (order printed copy)

Educational resources

• Kids' interactive
• Educational resources for kids' interactive web site
• 2007 International Year of the Dolphin teachers toolkit

Videos

• Minke whales in Antarctica video
• Whale songs

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Heritage

About Australia's heritage

• Australia's Heritage Lists - which List is which?
• Australia's National Heritage - 2007 (order printed copy)
• Australia's World Heritage - 2008
• Australian convict sites: World Heritage nomination - 2008
• Biodiversity summaries and species lists for NRM regions (ANHAT)
• Celebrating our heritage, National Heritage calendar 2009
• The EPBC Act and the National Heritage List
• The EPBC Act and the Commonwealth Heritage List
• Great Southern Land: The maritime exploration of Terra Australis - 2005
• A guide to heritage listing in Australia - 2009 (order printed copy)
• Heritage and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
• Heritage Laws and Australian Government Agencies
• Heritage List Criteria and Thresholds
• Heritage management principles
• List of overseas places of historic significance to Australia
• Managing Australia's heritage places
• The National and Commonwealth Heritage Lists Statutory Report 1 January 2004 – 30 June 2008
• Protecting heritage places
• The Register of the National Estate

Heritage strategy

• Commonwealth Government response to the productivity commission inquiry into the conservation of Australia's Historic Heritage Places (Report) - 2007
• The economics of heritage (Workshop) - 2007
• Heritage Strategy (Report) - 2005
• State party report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2008
• Steps to Sustainable Tourism (Report) - 2004
• World Heritage Australian Fossil Mammal Sites - Riversleigh and Naracoorte
• World Heritage Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia Strategic Overview for Management

• Economic activity of Australia's World Heritage areas - 2009

Protecting and managing heritage places

• The Kokoda Initiative - 2009
• Implications of climate change for Australia's World Heritage properties: a preliminary assessment - 2009
• Adaptive Reuse: Preserving our past, building our future - 2004 (order printed copy)
• Eradication of Rabbits and Rodents on Subantarctic Macquarie Island - 2007
• Management plans for places on the Commonwealth Heritage List - 2005
• Review of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 and consideration of the requirements arising from the UNESCO 2001 Convention for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage Discussion Paper - June 2009 (order printed copy)
• Review of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 and consideration of the requirements arising from the UNESCO 2001 Convention for the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage fact sheet - June 2009
• The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - 2007
• Working Together: Managing Commonwealth Heritage Places - 2008
• Working Together: Managing National Heritage Places - 2008

Heritage branding

• National Heritage List Branding Style Guide - 2008

Newsletters

• Living Heritage
  • Vol. 1 No. 4 Spring 2009
  • Vol. 1 No. 3 Summer 2009 (order printed copy)
  • Vol. 1 No. 2 Winter 2008 (order printed copy)
  • Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 2007 (order printed copy)

Fact sheets

• The Kokoda Initiative
• The EPBC Act and the National Heritage List
• Heritage List Criteria and Thresholds
• Historic Heritage - frequently asked questions
• Indigenous Heritage - frequently asked questions
• Managing Australia's heritage places
• Natural Heritage - frequently asked questions
• Natural Heritage - Frequently Asked Questions
• Protecting heritage places

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See also: Publications of the Australian Heritage Council and the former Australian Heritage Commission

Land management

Firewood

• Firewood home page

Books and reports

• Overview of the FAA certification scheme - 2007
• Impact and use of firewood in Australia
  Don A. Driscoll, George Milkovits and David Freudenberger, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - 2000
• A national approach to collection and use of firewood in Australia
  ANZECC - June 2001
• Firewood conferences: Summaries of papers presented - 2002
  • Firewood conferences proceedings - 2003
• Regulatory impact statement: National approach to firewood collection and use in Australia - 2001
  Please note: this electronic version of the Regulation impact statement does not include public submissions
• Voluntary code of practice for firewood merchants - 2005

Related reports - Fire in Australia

• Fire management: Managing for biodiversity in the rangelands - 2004
• Australian fire regimes: Contemporary patterns (April 1998 - March 2000) and changes since European settlement - 2002
• Australia's biodiversity - responses to fire - plants, birds and invertebrates - 1999
• Fire and biodiversity: the effects and effectiveness of fire management - proceedings of the conference held 8-9 October 1994, Footscray, Melbourne - 1996
• Country in flames: Proceedings of the 1994 symposium on biodiversity & fire in north Australia - 1995

Brochures and fact sheets

• Logs have life inside
• Are you burning their homes to warm yours?
• Tips for firewood consumers

Cards, kits, magnets and stickers

• Check your chimney magnets
• Logs have life inside music and education kit - firewood education kit (including House on Fire song) - 2002

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Forest policy

Forest Conservation Fund

• Forest Conservation Fund strategic plan - May 2006
• Forest Conservation Fund brochure - March 2007
• Forest Conservation Fund conservation adviser register - March 2007
• Forest Conservation Fund landowner information kit - April 2007
• Forest Conservation Fund news: Volume 5 - December 2006
• Forest Conservation Fund news: Volume 4 - July 2006
• Forest Conservation Fund news: Volume 3 - May 2006
• Forest Conservation Fund news: Volume 2 - November 2005
• Forest Conservation Fund news: Volume 1 - September 2005

Tasmanian Forest Tourism Initiative

• Tasmanian Forest Tourism Initiative fact sheet - 2007
• Taxation fact sheet - 2007
• Audited financial statement form - 2005
• Final report form - 2005

Mole Creek Karst Forest Programme

• Mole Creek Karst Forest Programme News: Issue 1 - March 2007
• Fact sheet 1, General information - 2005
• Fact sheet 2, Site assessments and advice - 2005
• Fact sheet 3, Landowner covenant proposals - 2005
• Fact sheet 4, Frequently asked questions - 2005
• Fact sheet 5, About the agreements - 2005
• Fact sheet 6, Assisted land purchase - 2005

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Grassland conservation and management

Books and reports

• Distribution and conservation status of the Corangamite Water Skink (Eulamprus tympanum marnieae) on the Victorian Volcanic Plain
  Garry Peterson
• Monitoring of grazing exclusions and other reference sites established within Allocasuarina luehmannii, Buloke, grassy woodland remnants of the Wimmera Plains, Victoria
  Martin Westbrooke, Lisa Morcom and Miranda Kerr
• Populations trends, life history traits and feeding ecology of the Tussock Skink, Pseudemoia pagenstecheri
  Natasha L. Sullivan - 1999
• Structural patterns and changes in Callitris - Eucalyptus woodlands at Terrick Terrick State Park, Victoria
  David Parker - May 1999
• Vegetation dynamics in response to fire and slashing in remnants of Western Basalt Plains grasslands: Preliminary results
  Meredith Henderson and Colin Hocking

Case studies

• Grassland restoration at the Victorian Open Range Zoo

Conference proceedings

• Balancing conservation and production in grassy landscapes: Proceedings of the Bushcare grassy landscapes conference
  Clare, South Australia 19-21 August 1999. Ed Tim Barlow and Roberta Thorburn - 2000

Extension materials

• Extension materials on grassy ecosystems

Fact sheets

• The Evans Street native grassland, Sunbury
• Terrick Terrick State Park

Guidelines and kits

• Grassy guidelines: How to manage native grasslands and grassy woodlands on your property - 1998
  Tim Barlow (Includes information about how to identify native grasslands and woodlands, their use, distribution, and management.)
• Guide to best practice conservation of temperate native grasslands - 1999
  James Ross, World Wide Fund for Nature (Australia)

Newsletters

• Grass clippings: Native grasslands and grassy woodlands newsletter

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Environmental threats

Books and reports

• Australian actions to combat desertification and land degradation: National report by Australia on measures taken to support implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
  Commonwealth Intergovernmental Working Group for the UNCCD - April 2002

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Monitoring biodiversity condition

Books and reports

The June 2006 special issue of Ecological Management and Restoration  contains 21 articles on vegetation condition mapping and assessment. This issue was produced following a CSIRO workshop on this issue in August 2005, part-sponsored by the Department of Environment and Heritage.

The following reports were produced by Environment Australia and the first National Land and Water Resources Audit (1997-2002) project as part of the Audit's Theme 3: National Vegetation Information System.

• Landscape change in the Meander Valley: A case study for monitoring and reporting of land use modification, vegetation condition and biodiversity loss - 2003
• Assessment of biodiversity condition in a rangelands environment using remote sensing - 2002
• Forest condition assessment and implications for biodiversity - 2002
• Illumination correction of Landsat TM data in south east New South Wales - 2002
• Using airborne laser altimetry to assess and monitor biodiversity - 2001

Other references related to biodiversity condition can be found in the following bibliography

• Biodiversity condition bibliography

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Native vegetation

Books and reports

• An analysis of the gaps in research and development relating to non-commercial revegetation in Australia
  Dale Tonkinson, Marita Sydes, Tracy King and Mark Coffey, Greening Australia, Victoria - 1999
• Assessing the benefits of vegetation enhancement for biodiversity: A draft framework
  CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - 2003
• Australia's native vegetation: A summary of Australia's major vegetation groups - 2007
• Beyond roads, rates and rubbish: Opportunities for local government to conserve native vegetation
  Carl Binning, Mike Young and Emily Cripps, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology - 1999
• Biodiversity monitoring in the rangelands: A way forward - Volumes 1 and 2
  Volume 1, Expert Technical Workshop, 29 October - 1 November 2002, Alice Springs. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - August 2003
  Volume 2, Case Studies. CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems et al - August 2003
• Bushcare Support July 2001 - December 2002: Living proof: Successful case studies from bushcare support
  Greening Australia - 31 January 2003
• Bushcare Support July 2001 - December 2002: Sustainable solutions
  Greening Australia - March 2003
• Carbon sequestration in low rainfall areas: the measurement of plantations of trees in Victoria
  Hassall and Associates Pty Ltd -1998
• Case study applications of a draft framework for assessing the biodiversity benefits of vegetation enhancement activities
  CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - 2003
  • A method for assessing the potential biodiversity benefits of past and proposed vegetation enhancements in the Holbrook Landcare Area, NSW - 2003
  • A method for assessing the potential biodiversity benefits of vegetation enhancement activities in the Meander Valley, Tasmania - 2003
  • A method for assessing the potential biodiversity benefits of the bushweb project in the Northern Midlands, Tasmania - 2003
  • An assessment of the potential biodiversity benefits of the Saltshaker Project, Boorowa, NSW - 2003
• Conservation hindered: the impact of local government rates and State land taxes on the conservation of native vegetation Carl Binning and Mike Young, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology - 1999
• The cost of revegetation
  Jacki Schirmer and John Field, ANU Forestry and FORTECH
• Emerging products and services from trees in lower rainfall areas Agroforestry Program - 2000
• Extension and advisory strategies for agroforestry
  A report for the RIRDC/LWRRDC/FWPRDC Joint Venture Agroforestry Program - 2000
• Grazing pressure management: Managing for biodiversity conservation in the rangelands - 2004
• Incorporation of practical measures to assist conservation of biodiversity within sustainable beef production in northern Australia
  Sue McIntyre, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - 2001
• Landholder perceptions of remnant vegetation on private lands in the Box-Ironbark region of northern Victoria
  Steve Hamilton, Paul Dettmann and Alan Curtis - 1999
• Landscape conservation and the non-government sector Carl Binning and Patricia Feilman - 2000
• Measurement of plantations of trees in Western Australia to improve the estimates of carbon sequestration in low rainfall areas
  Hassall and Associates Pty Ltd - 1999
• Measurement of plantations of trees in South Australia to improve the estimates of carbon sequestration in low rainfall areas
  Hassall and Associates Pty Ltd - 1999
• Motivating people: Using management agreements to conserve remnant native vegetation
  Carl Binning and Mike Young - 1997
• More than just the odd tree: Report on incentives and barriers to rural woodland conservation, using Grassy White Box woodlands as a model Jane Elix and Judy Lambert, Community Solutions - 1998
• National framework for the management and monitoring of Australia's native vegetation
  Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council, Department of Environment and Heritage - 2001, Published February 2000, reprinted December 2001
  
  • Native vegetation national overview - States/Territories/Commonwealth stocktake of native vegetation management - August 1999 John Dore (Griffin nrm), Carl Binning (CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology) & Greg Hayes (Virtual Consulting Group) - 2000
  • Independent evaluation of the National framework for the management and monitoring of Australia's native vegetation and jurisdiction work plans Main Report prepared for ANZECC - November 2000
• Native vegetation management in Australia
  Department of the Environment and Water Resources - 2005
• Native vegetation management: A needs analysis of regional service delivery in New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory
  Greening Australia - 2003
• Native vegetation management: A needs analysis of regional service delivery in Northern Territory
  Greening Australia - 2003
• Native vegetation management: A needs analysis of regional service delivery in Queensland
  Greening Australia - 2003
• Native vegetation management: A needs analysis of regional service delivery in South Australia
  Greening Australia - 2003
• Native vegetation management: A needs analysis of regional service delivery in Tasmania
  Greening Australia - 2003
• Native vegetation management: A needs analysis of regional service delivery in Victoria
  Greening Australia - 2003
• Native vegetation management: A needs analysis of regional service delivery in Western Australia
  Greening Australia - 2003
• Native vegetation on farms survey 1996: A survey of farmers attitudes to native vegetation and landcare in the wheatbelt of Western Australia
  Suzanne Jenkins for Agriculture Western Australia and Department of Conservation and Land Management - 1998
• Native vegetation policy: Reversing the decline in the quality and extent of Australia's native vegetation cover
  Statement by Senator the Honourable Robert Hill, Minister for the Environment and Heritage - September 2001
• Opportunity denied: Review of the legislative ability of local governments to conserve native vegetation
  Emily Cripps, Carl Binning and Mike Young, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology - 1999
• Plants, people and planning: Integrating national botanical information and regional vegetation planning and management CSIRO Plant Industry - 2003
• Productivity commission inquiry into the impacts of native vegetation and biodiversity regulations
  Department of the Environment and Water Resources - 2003
• Remnant native vegetation: Perceptions and policies
  Denys Slee and Associates for the South Australian Farmers Federation, Victorian Farmers Federation and NSW Farmers Association - 1998
• Revegetation and wildlife: A guide to enhancing revegetated habitats for wildlife conservation in rural environments
  Andrew Bennett, Sally Kimber and Paul Ryan, School of Ecology and Environment, Deakin University - 2000
  • Bushcare national projects: How to enhance revegetation for wildlife
    Article from Australian Farm Journal, BUSH, Pp. 15-18 - October 2000
• Revegetation and wildlife: What do we know about revegetation and wildlife conservation in australia?
  Andrew Bennett, Sally Kimber and Paul Ryan, School of Ecology and Environment, Deakin University - 1999
• Strategic framework for investment in native seed for revegetation in Australia - 2002
  
• Talking to the taxman about nature conservation: Proposals for the introduction of tax incentives for the protection of high conservation value native vegetation - 1999
  Carl Binning and Mike Young, CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology
• Trees, water and salt: An Australian guide to using trees for healthy catchments and productive farms
  The JVAP research update series no. 1 - 2000
• Using native soil fungi to improve sustainability of woodland revegetation IC Tommerup, NL Bougher, SQ Bolsenbroek, JM Catchpole, RJ Gibbs, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products - 2002

Brochures and fact sheets

• Be smart with seed - 2004
• Native seed management principles
• Bushcare: Working with local government to conserve our native vegetation - 2000
• New Atlas of Australian birds
  • Comparing the two Atlases - 2002
  • The work of an Atlasser - 2002
  • Birds on farms - 2002
  • State highlights - 2002
• Australia's rangelands - August 1999:
  What are rangelands, environmental values, people, management, Commonwealth Government initiatives.

Guidelines and kits

• Incentives for sustainable land management: Community cost sharing to conserve biodiversity on private lands, a guide for local government - 2001 revised edition
  Paul Bateson
• Tasmanian Bushcare toolkit :
  For landholders to assess the native bush on their property and develop strategies to manage it into the future. Available on the Bushcare Tasmania web site

Newsletters

• Bush - Wetland management, revegetating the rangelands - July 2006
• Bush - Conservation covenants, biodiversity for the farm - October 2005
• Bush - GIS and satellite imagery - April 2005
• Bush - Rot, rust and smut - November 2004
• Bush - Working together on weeds - May 2004
• Bush - Seeds a growing industry - January 2004

Posters (Only available within Australia, limit of 6)

• Posters and stickers

Resources

• Monitoring and evaluation resources
• National Land and Water Resources Audit

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Rangelands

Books and reports

• Incorporation of Practical Measures to Assist Conservation of Biodiversity Within Sustainable Beef Production in Northern Australia
• Australia's Biodiversity - Responses to Fire Plants, Birds and Invertebrates
• Identification and Assessment of Nationally Threatened Woodlands Description of Ecological Communities: Arid Eucalypt Woodlands
• High Conservation Value in the Rangelands
• Enabling the Market: Incentives for Biodiversity in the Rangelands

Australian Collaborative Rangeland Information System (ACRIS) publications

Rangelands 2008: taking the pulse

• Australia's rangelands 2008: at a glance - 2008 (Booklet includes CD Rangelands 2008 - Taking the pulse in back pocket) (order printed copy)
• Rangelands 2008: taking the pulse

Rangelands 2008 - supporting reports

• Rangeland condition: its meaning and use – 2008
• A biodiversity monitoring program for Australian Rangelands – May 2009
• A statistical analysis of temporal trends in detection rates of birds in the Rangelands 1999-2006
• Establishing fixed-site bird monitoring in the Rangelands - a scoping report
• Developing a research agenda for the distribution and rate of spread of buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris)
• Reporting environmental change on Indigenous lands
• Spatial and temporal trends in wind erosion of Australian rangelands during 1960 – 2005 using the Dust Storm Index (DSI)
• Status of biodiversity monitoring in the rangelands
• NT Reporting Change in the Rangelands – 2007
• NSW Reporting Change in the Rangelands – 2007
• QLD Reporting Change in the Rangelands – 2007
• SA Reporting Change in the Rangelands – 2007
• WA Reporting Change in the Rangelands – 2007

Reporting on change in the rangelands

• ACRIS summary brochure
• National synthesis of reports from pilot regions - June 2005

State and territory reports for each pilot region

• Tracking changes: Darling Riverine Plains bioregion New South Wales 1992-2002
• Tracking changes in the Victoria River District pastoral district, Northern Territory, Australia - 2005
• Tracking changes in the Gawler bioregion, South Australia - 2005
• Case study of status and change in the rangelands of the Gascoyne - Murchison region, Western Australia 2005

Note: An unofficial report has been completed for the Desert Uplands region in Queensland. For a copy of this report please contact Robert Kaufs.

Managing for biodiversity in the rangelands summary reports

• Assessing Financial and Environmental Impacts of Management Options - June 2006 (order printed copy)
• Biodiversity Monitoring in the Rangelands: A Way Forward (Vol. 2) 2007
• Fire Management - 2005 (order printed copy)
• Industry guidelines for sustainability
• Managing Feral Animals and their Impacts: Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands - 2007 (order printed copy)
• Management of Total Grazing Pressure - 2005 (order printed copy)
• Water Management: Managing for Biodiversity in the Rangelands - 2007 (order printed copy)
• Weed management

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Sustainable land management

Books and reports

• Assessing financial and environmental impacts of management options - 2006
• Fire management - 2004
• Industry guidelines for sustainability - 2006
• Management of total grazing pressure - 2004
• Strategic directions for the regional delivery of incentives for natural resource management outcomes - 2003
  • Workshop in Queensland - 2003
  • Workshop in South Australia - 2003
  • Workshop in Victoria - 2003
  • Workshop in Western Australia - 2003
• Farm forestry for green and gold - Australian experiences of linking biodiversity to commercial forestry - 2003
• Gifts that keep on giving: A landholder's guide to and land protection and conservation options
• National synthesis of reports from pilot regions - June 2005
  • Tracking changes: Darling Riverine Plains bioregion New South Wales 1992-2002
  • Tracking changes in the Victoria River District pastoral district, Northern Territory, Australia - 2005
  • Tracking changes in the Gawler bioregion, South Australia - 2005
  • Case study of status and change in the rangelands of the Gascoyne - Murchison region, Western Australia - 2005

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Sustainability education

Books and reports

• Caring for our future - the importance of strategic approaches and partnerships in education for sustainable development - Presentation to the 2006 AAEE National Conference, 4 October 2006
• Charles Darwin: A voyage of discovery - March 2009. Teacher's resource booklet (order printed copy)
• Educating for a Sustainable Future: A National Environmental Education Statement for Australian Schools - 2005
• Education for Sustainability. The role of education in engaging and equipping people for change - July 2009  
• Education about and for sustainability in Australian business schools - ARIES, 2005 
• Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future: National Action Plan - 2000
• Today Shapes Tomorrow: Environmental Education for a Sustainable Future - A Discussion Paper - 1999
• Environmental education review - formal education sector (schools), A Curriculum Review of Environmental Education, Curriculum Corporation for Environment Australia, 2003
• Guidelines for sustainability in supply chains: Thinking systems for business sustainability - October 2009 (order printed copy)
• Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability - 2009 (order printed copy)
• A National Review of Environmental Education and its Contribution to Sustainability in Australia
  • Volume 2: School Education - Key Findings - 2005  
  • Volume 3: Community Education - Key Findings- 2005 (order printed copy)  
  • Volume 4: Business and Industry Education - Key Findings - 2005 (order printed copy)  
• Whole-School Approaches to Sustainability: An International Review of Sustainable School Programs - ARIES, 2004 
• A Review of Air Quality Community Education - 2007 (order printed copy)  
• Shifting Towards Sustainability: Six Insights into Successful Organisational Change for Sustainability - 2006 (order printed copy)  

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

• An Australian Government Perspective on the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development - Presentation to the National Symposium for the DESD, Melbourne July 2005
• Caring for our future: The Australian Government Strategy for the UNDESD, 2005-2014  - 2006 (order printed copy)
• Extending the Vision: Australian Government engagement with the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014 - Presentation at the Victorian Association on Environmental Education DESD Forum, 31 January 2005
• Initiating the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development in Australia - Report of the National Symposium for the DESD, Melbourne July 2005
• Setting the stage for a strategic research agenda for the UNDESD - Presentation to the UNESCO Workshop on ESD Research, February 2006

Brochures and fact sheets

• Education for Sustainability - The role of education in engaging and equipping people for change  - 2009
• Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative - 2007
• Time to act: everyday tips to help protect the environment - 2000

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Water

Government action

• Water Matters newsletter
• Council of Australian Governments' Water Reform Framework - 1994
• Development of the Technical Manual for Assessing Hotspots in Channel and Piped Irrigation Systems - project report - 2008
• Draft Guidelines for Managing Externalities - restoring the balance - 2000
• Draft National Water Policy Agenda - 2000
• Ecological assets of Northern Australia Study - final report - 2009
• Integrated Water Resource Management in Australia - 2004
• Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance - Fact sheet - 2009
• Irrigation Hotspots Project - Fact sheet - 2008
• Managing Australia's Water Resources - 2006
• National Rainwater and Greywater Initiative - Fact sheet - 2008
  • Choosing a greywater system - Fact sheet - 2009
  • Choosing the right sized rainwater tank - Fact Sheet - 2009
  • Surf life saving clubs frequently asked questions - Fact sheet - 2008
• National Water Initiative Water Trading Study Final Report - 2006
• Northern Australia Water Futures Assessment - Fact sheet - 2009
• Stormwater harvesting and reuse projects - Fact sheet - 2009
• Strengthening Basin Communities: Water saving initiatives - Fact sheet - 2009
• Technical manual for assessing hotspots in channel and piped irrigation systems - 2008
• Water for the Future Achievements - Fact sheet - 2009

See also Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin (water entitlement purchasing)

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Murray-Darling Basin

• Contingency planning in the Murray-Darling Basin - Fact sheet - 21 December 2007
• Murray-Darling Basin Authority - Transition Fact sheet - 2008
• An economic survey of irrigation farms in the Murray-Darling Basin - 2008
• Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder - Fact sheet - 2008
• Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Frequently Asked Questions - 2008
• Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges (South Australia) 
• First release of Commonwealth water for the environment - Fact sheet - 2009
• Guidelines for Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance
• CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields reports
  • Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields reports in stock
• Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning February 2008
• Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning September 2007
• Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning: Update on water availability - June 2007
• Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning May 2007
• Distribution, spread, ecological impacts and potential control of carp in the upper Murray River - 2007
• Murray-Darling Basin dry inflow contingency planning April 2007
• Murray-Darling Basin map - 2007
• A New Way of Managing the Murray-Darling Basin - 2009
• Status of Murray Cod in the Murray-Darling Basin - 2001
• Summit on the Southern Murray-Darling Basin 7 November 2006 
• Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin Program
  • Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin - Fact sheet - 2009
  • Review of 2007-08 water entitlement purchases - 2008
  • Small Block Irrigators Exit Grant package - Fact sheet - 2008

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Water for the environment

• Australian natural resources data library 
• Australian rivers and catchment condition (formerly wild rivers) database 
• Freshwater related environmental management principles and guidelines - 2000
• International Year of Freshwater - 2003
  • Australian Government Envirofund - helping Australians through the drought - 2003
  • Freshwater: action on the Ground - 2002
  • Freshwater Australia poster - 2003
  • Incentive measures for conserving freshwater ecosystems - 2002
  • International Year of Freshwater - 2003
  • Managing Australia's Freshwater Resources - 2003
  • Message from the Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the launch of the International Year of Freshwater (2003) - 2002
  • Message from the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the International Year of Freshwater (2003) - 2003
  • Urban Water Use - 2003
  • Water: a matter of life and death - 2002
  • WaterYear 2003: international year aims to galvanize action on critical water problems - 2002
• Natural resources atlas 
• Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005

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Environmental water management

• Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder 2009-10 Business Plan - 2009
• Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder - Fact sheet - 2008
• Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder Frequently Asked Questions - 2008
• Environmental watering at Lindsay Island - video - May 2009
• First release of Commonwealth water for the environment - Fact sheet - 2009
• Market-based opportunities to improve environmental flows: a scoping paper - 2000
• Six sites to receive environmental water in May and June - Fact sheet - 2009
• Two sites to receive environmental water at Yanga National Park - 2009

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Aquatic ecosystems

• High Conservation Value Aquatic Ecosystems project - identifying, categorising and managing HCVAE - 2007
• Incentive measures for conserving freshwater ecosystems
• National principles for the provision of water for ecosystems - 1996

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Estuaries

• A Physical Classification of Australian Estuaries 
• Assessing the Ecological Health of Estuaries in Australia 
• Estuarine Eutrophication Models 
• Estuarine Health Assessment Using Benthic Macrofauna 
• Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005
• SEEM (Simple Estuarine Eutrophication Models) User's Manual 
• Simple Estuarine Response Model 
• Environmental Water Requirements to Maintain Estuarine Processes - 2002

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Groundwater

• Allocation and use of Groundwater - 1996
• Assessment of Groundwater Resources in the Broken Hill Region - 2008
• Associated off-farm economic values of saving water and restoring pressure in the Great Artesian Basin - 2008
• A Social Profile of the Great Artesian Basin - 2005
• Case Examples of Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
• Definition and approach to sustainable groundwater yield - 2004
• Farm costs, benefits and risks from bore capping and piping in the GAB
• Great Artesian Basin map - 2007
• Groundwater Quality Protection - 2002
• Groundwater Trading - 2002
• Impacts of land use change on groundwater resources - 2004
• Improved management and protection of groundwater dependent ecosystems - 2004
• Integrated groundwater - surface water management - 2004
• Knowledge gaps for groundwater reforms - 2004
• Landholder contributions to the GABSI - 2003
• Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
• Reporting jurisdictional progress on groundwater reforms - 2000
• Reporting jurisdictional progress on groundwater reforms: second report - 2001
• Review of the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative - 2003
• Water in a Dry Land - Issues and Challenges for Australia's Key Resource - 2000
• Water level response management as a micro-management tool - 2004

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Rivers and basins

• Great Artesian Basin
  • Capping and piping Artesian bores - 2008
  • Great Artesian Basin map - 2007
  • Review of Recharge Mechanisms for the Great Artesian Basin - 2007
  • What is the Great Artesian Basin and how does it work? - 2008

• Lake Eyre Basin
  • Lake Eyre Basin map - 2007
  • Lake Eyre Basin Intergovernmental Agreement - 2000
  • Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment - 2002

• More Lake Eyre publications

• National river health program: river health assessment toolbox
  • A Guide to Diatoms as Indicators of Urban Stream Health 
  • A Review of the Conservation Status of Selected Australian Non-Marine Invertebrates - CD only (order printed copy) - 2003
  • A Physical Classification of Australian Estuaries 
  • An Evaluation of the Use of AusRivAS Models for Urban Stream Assessment 
  • An overview of the conservation of Non-marine Invertebrates in Australia
  • Assemblages of plants and invertebrate animals of tumulus (organic mound) springs of the Swan Coastal Plain
  • Assessing the Ecological Health of Estuaries in Australia 
  • AusRivAS Protocol Development and Testing - 2002
  • AusRivAS Training and Accreditation - Course Outline, Structure and Content - 2002
  • Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Errors Analysis (Phase I Final Report) - 2002
  • Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Errors Analysis - The Sensitivity of AusRivAS to Variations of Input Values, Low Natural Diversity, and Temporal Variation (Phase 2 Final Report)- 2003
  • Australian River Assessment System: Improving AusRivAS Analytical Methods - ANNA Phase II - 2003
  • Australian River Assessment System: Improving AusRivAS Analytical Methods - DDRMA and E-Ball (Phase I) - 2002
  • Australian River Assessment System: Interpretation of the Outputs from AusRivAS (Milestone Report) - 2002
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams 
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams Let's Fix Urban Streams 
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management for Management of Urban Streams, Report C - Pilot Studies in Brisbane 
  • Basic Decision Support System for Management of Urban Streams Software Manual 
  • Diatom Prediction and Classification System for Urban Streams 
  • Estuarine Eutrophication Models 
  • Estuarine Health Assessment Using Benthic Macrofauna 
  • Incentive Measures for Conserving Freshwater Ecosystems - 2002
  • Integrated Water Resource Management in Australia: Case Studies - 2004
  • Measuring the Health of our Rivers - 1996
  • Monitoring of benthic invertebrates in Macquarie Harbour, Western Tasmania - 1996
  • National River Health Program - The Urban Sub-Program 
  • Research Reports: Outcomes of the NRHP Urban Sub-Program 
  • Sediment Chemistry - Macroinvertebrate Fauna Relationships in Urban Streams 
  • SEEM (Simple Estuarine Eutrophication Models) User's Manual 
  • Simple Estuarine Response Model 
  • Toxicity assessment of waters from Macquarie Harbour, Western Tasmania, using algae, invertebrates and fish - 1996
• National river health program: river health bioassessment reports
  • AusRivAS Physical Assessment Protocol - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Assessment of the Ecological Condition of Freshwater Streams in the Darwin Region - 2004
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Australian Capital Territory Bioassessment Report - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NSW Bioassessment Report - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Northern Territory Status Report and Commentary - 2001
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NT Bioassessment Report - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Tasmanian Bioassessment Report (TAS Final Report) - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Victorian Bioassessment Report (Final Report) - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Western Australian Bioassessment Report (WA Final Report) - 2002
  • Development of AusRivAS Models for New South Wales - 2002
  • Internal Quality Assurance and Quality Control for AusRivAS in New South Wales - 2002
  • River Health in the New South Wales Lower North Coast, Hunter and Central Coast Catchments - 2004
  • River Health in South Australia - 2003
  • Support and Completion of Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health Models (Phase I) - 2002
  • Support and Completion of Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health Models (Phase II) - 2002
• National river health program: river health monitoring data repository
  • Australian River Assessment System: National guidelines for coding AusRivAS sites using unique identifiers - 2004
  • Australian River Assessment System: National Guidelines for AusRivAS Metadata - 2004
  • Australian River Assessment System: National Guidelines for Mapping AusRivAS Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Scores - 2004
• National river health program: river health monitoring protocols
  • An Examination of an Aquatic Ecoregion Protocol for Australia - 1997
  • Australian River Assessment System: Review of Physical River Assessment Methods - A Biological Perspective - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Australian Capital Territory AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NSW AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: NT AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Queensland AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: SA AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: Tasmanian AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: VIC AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • Australia-Wide Assessment of River Health: WA AusRivAS Sampling and Processing Manual - 2002
  • National River Health Program: AusRivAS Quality Assurance and Quality Control Project - 2004
  • Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Physical and Chemical Assessment Module - 2002
  • National River Processes and Management Program - Monitoring River Health Initiative: River Health Bioassessment Manual - 1994
  • SIGNAL 2.iv - A Scoring System for Macroinvertebrates ('Water Bugs') in Australian Rivers - 2003
• National river health program: environmental flows initiative technical reports
  • Assessment of the Impact of Private Dams on Seasonal Stream flows - Final Report - 2002
  • Australian River Assessment System: AusRivAS Protocols Development and Testing Report (Final Report) - 2002
  • Environmental Water Requirements to Maintain Wetlands of National and International Importance - 2001
  • Environmental Water Requirements of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems - 2001
  • Environmental Water Requirements to Maintain Estuarine Processes - 2002
  • Environmental Flows on the Paroo and Warrego Rivers - 2003
  • Environmental Flows Initiative - Summary of Projects
  • Environmental Water Requirements of Vallisneria nana in the Daly River, Northern Territory - 2003
  • Evaluation of the National River Health Program (1996)
  • Importance of Flood Flows to the Productivity of Dryland Rivers and Their Floodplains - 2003
  • Modelling Dry Season Flows and Predicting the Impact of Water Extraction on a Flagship Species - 2003
  • National AusRivAS Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Training and Accreditation Register - 2003
  • Periphyton and Phytoplankton Response to Reduced Dry Season Flows in the Daly River - 2003
  • Productivity and Water Flow Regulation in the Ord River of North-Western Australia - 2003
  • Snowy River Benchmarking and Environmental Flow Response Monitoring Project - 2003
  • Tree Water Use and Sources of Transpired Water in Riparian Vegetation Along the Daly River, Northern Territory - 2003
• Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005

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Wetlands

Brochures and fact sheets

• Australia's Ramsar sites - 2007
• Coorong and Lakes Alexandrina and Albert Ramsar Wetland - Fact sheet - March 2009
• A Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia (fact sheet) - 2006
• Subterranean wetlands - 2004

Books and reports

Ramsar Convention

• Communication, Education, and Public Awareness to Promote Wise Use of Australia's Wetlands - 2002
• Ramsar: Conferences of Contracting Parties reports
  • Ramsar National Report on the Implementation of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - to be submitted to the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties, Republic of Korea, 28 October - 4 November 2008 - 2008
  • National planning tool for the implementation of the ramsar convention on wetlands - Ninth Conference of Contracting Parties to the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) - 2005
• Ramsar Snapshot Study - Final Report - 2007

Wetlands in Australia

• Availability of wetland habitat for waterbirds in arid Australia - 2001
• How do Water Regime and Grazing Alter the Reproductive Capacity of Aquatic Plants? - 2000
• Identifying and Monitoring Change in Wetland Inundation and Vegetation Patterns, Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory - 2002
• Implications of Nutrient Enrichment on Managing Primary Productivity in Wetlands - 2000
• Modelling ecological responses to water regimes in arid zone wetlands - 1998
• Private and Social Values of Wetlands: An Overview - 2001
• Protecting Australia's rivers, wetlands and estuaries of high conservation value - 2005

Queensland Wetlands Program

• Program Performance Report of the Queensland Wetlands Program: 1 July 2006 - 31 December 2006
• Program Performance Report of the Queensland Wetlands Program: 1 July 2005 - 30 June 2006
• Weed Management and the Biodiversiy and Ecological Processes of Tropical Wetlands - 2001
• Wetlands in a dry land: Understanding for management - 1997

National Guidelines for Ramsar wetlands - Implementing the Ramsar Convention in Australia

• Implementation of the National Framework and Guidance for describing the ecological character of Australia's Ramsar wetlands
• Mapping specifications for Australian Ramsar wetlands - Module 1 - 2008
• National framework and guidance for describing the ecological character of Australian Ramsar wetlands - Module 2 - 2008

Newsletters

• Wetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update, 2009 - Issue No 17 (order printed copy)
• Wetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update, 2008 - Issue No 16
• Wetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update, 2007 - Issue No 15 (order printed copy)
• Wetlands Australia: National Wetlands Update, 2006 - Issue No 14

Policy, legislation and conventions

• Commonwealth Coastal Policy
• Convention on Biodiversity (1992) 
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (the Bonn Convention) 
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) 
• China-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA) 
• Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
• Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (JAMBA) 
• Republic of Korea-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (ROKAMBA) 
• Legislation administered by the Environment Department
• Ramsar Convention 
• World Heritage Convention 

Posters, postcards, stickers and fridge magnets (Only available within Australia, limit of 6 posters)

• Wetlands posters and stickers

Videos and interactive tools

• Exploring our wetlands - 2006

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Water for agriculture

• Public consultation on the draft Regulatory Impact Statement for the National Framework for Non-urban Water Metering - 2008
• An economic survey of irrigation farms in the Murray-Darling Basin  - 2008
• Case Examples of Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
• Draft National Water Policy Agenda - 2000
• Farm costs, benefits and risks from bore capping and piping in the GAB
• Groundwater Quality Protection - 2002
• Groundwater Trading - 2002
• Improving non-urban water metering - Metering Expert Group - 2008
• Knowledge gaps for groundwater reforms - 2004
• Landholder contributions to the GABSI - 2003
• Managing Overallocated Groundwater Systems - 2002
• Metering Projects - Metering Expert Group - 2008
• National Audit of On-farm Irrigation Information Tools - 2007
• National needs and gaps analysis of on-farm irrigation information tools - 2009
• Review of the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative - 2003
• Review the attitudes and perceptions of pastoral water users in the great artesian basin - 2003
• Stocktake of Australia's non-urban water metering systems - 2008
• Innovation in irrigation: 6 case studies from across Australia - 2007 
• Innovation in irrigation: 6 case studies from across Australia - 2005 
• Innovation in irrigation: 12 case studies from across Australia - 2004 

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Water for cities and homes

• A discussion paper on the role of the private sector in the supply of water and wastewater services - 2006
• Advice on the impact of pollution on rainfall and the potential benefits of cloud seeding - 2002
• Australian guidelines for water recycling: managing health and environmental risks (phase1) 
• Economic and technical assessment of desalination technologies in Australia - 2002
• Guidelines for developing recycled water schemes in horticulture
• Introduction to desalination technologies in Australia - 2002
• Introduction to Urban Stormwater Management in Australia- 2002
• National Guidelines for Residential Customers' Water Accounts 
• National Snapshot of Current and Planned Water Recycling and Reuse Rates - 2008
• National urban water and desalination plan - fact sheet - 2008
• National Water Security Plan for Cities and Towns Competitive Grants Element - fact sheet - 2009
• Research into access to recycled water and impediments to recycled water investment - 2005
• Review of Urban Water Entitlements in Australia  - 2008
• Securing Australia's Urban Water Supplies: Opportunities and Impediments
• Urban Water Use - 2003
• Urban Water Markets  - 2008
• Wastewater and Stormwater Management - 1997
• Water efficiency guide: office and public buildings - 2006
• Water savings project final report - 2005

Green Precincts Fund

• Green Precincts Fund - fact sheet - 2009
• An Island is not an Island - A Green Precinct in the Great Barrier Reef - fact sheet - 2009
• Bega Valley solar farm feasibility study - fact sheet - 2009
• Blue Mountains Sustainable Precinct - fact sheet - 2009
• Charleston Road Campus Redevelopment - fact sheet - 2009
• Sydney Harbour Green Precincts Project - fact sheet - 2009
• Education Precincts for the Future - fact sheet - 2009
• Greening Inveresk Precinct - Towards Water and Energy Sustainability - fact sheet - 2009
• Greening the Wharf - Sydney Theatre Company - fact sheet - 2009
  • Greening the Wharf Launch - video
• The Grove Library Project - fact sheet - 2009
• Windy Hill Green Precincts Project - fact sheet - 2009
• Woodcroft Green Precinct - Combined Library and Neighbourhood Centre Demonstration Site - fact sheet - 2009

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Water quality

National Water Quality Management Strategy

These guidelines have been released by the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council (NRMMC) and, in some cases, in collaboration with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and the Australian Health Ministers Conference. Hard copies of these guidelines can be ordered from the Australian Water Association 

• Policies and process for water quality management
  • Paper 1: Water quality management - an outline of the policies - 1994 
  • Paper 2: Policies and principles - a reference document - 1994 
  • Paper 3: Implementation guidelines - 1998 
• Water quality benchmarks
  • Register for National Water Quality Management Strategy updates
  • Paper 4: Australian and New Zealand guidelines for fresh and marine water quality - 2000 
  • Paper 6: Australian drinking water guidelines - 2004 
  • Paper 7: Australian guidelines for water quality monitoring and reporting - 2000 
• Groundwater management
  • Paper 8: Guidelines for groundwater protection - 1995 
• Diffuse and point sources
  • Paper 9: Rural land uses and water quality - a community resource document - 2000
  • Paper 10: Guidelines for urban stormwater management - 2000
• Guidelines for Sewerage Systems
  • Paper 11: Guidelines for sewerage systems - effluent management - 1997
  • Paper 12: Guidelines for sewerage systems - acceptance of trade waste (industrial waste) - 1994
  • Paper 13: Guidelines for sewerage systems - sludge (biosolids) management - 2004
  • Paper 14: Guidelines for sewerage systems - use of reclaimed water - 2000
  • Paper 15: Guidelines for sewerage systems - sewerage system overflows - 2004
• Effluent Management
  • Paper 16a: Effluent management guidelines for dairy sheds - 1999
  • Paper 16b: Effluent management guidelines for dairy processing plants - 1999
  • Paper 17: Effluent management guidelines for intensive piggeries - 1999
  • Paper 18: Effluent management guidelines for aqueous wool scouring and carbonising - 1999
  • Paper 19: Effluent management guidelines for tanning and related industries in Australia - 1995
  • Paper 20: Effluent management guidelines for Australian wineries and distilleries - 1998
• Water recycling
  • Paper 21: Australian guidelines for water recycling: managing health and environmental risks (Phase1) - 2006. Phase 1 covers the treatment of sewage effluent and greywater for non-drinking purposes. 
  • Paper 22a: Australian guidelines for water recycling: managing health and environmental risks (Phase 2): Augmentation of drinking water supplies - 2008. This guideline covers the treatment of sewage effluent and greywater for augmentation of drinking water supplies. 
• Other reports
  • Discussion paper on implementation of the National Water Quality Management Strategy - 2008
  • Assessment of the Approach taken for the Adaption of the CSIRO Pesticide Impact Rating Index (PIRI) to Tasmanian Conditions - Final report - 2008
  • Better Water Workshop Series – National Water Quality Management Strategy - 2008
  • Random Audit of Historical Water Quality Monitoring Data and Associated Operational/Landscape and Climate Data - First report - 2007
  • Random Audit of Historical Water Quality Monitoring Data and Associated Operational/Landscape and Climate Data - Second report - 2007
  • The Framework for Marine and Estuarine Water Quality Protection: A Reference Document - 2001

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