Biodiversity
Theme commentary
Steven Cork, Land & Water Australia and CSIRO
Paul Sattler, Paul Sattler Eco-consulting Pty Ltd
Jason Alexandra, Alexandra and Associates Pty Ltd
prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, 2006
This document was commissioned for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee. This and other commissioned documents support the Committee's Report but are not part of it.
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Contents
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Utilisation and value of biodiversity
- Pressures on biodiversity
- State of biodiversity
- Responses
- References
- Acknowledgements
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Peer reviewers
Dr D Lindenmayer, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU
Dr D Lunney, Department of Environment and Conservation, NSW
Professor H Possingham, University of Queensland
Dr John Woinarski, NT Department of Infrastructure Planning and Environment
Citation
Cork S, Sattler P and Alexandra J 2006, ‘Biodiversity’ theme commentary prepared for the 2006 Australian State of the Environment Committee, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra, <http://www.environment.gov.au/soe/2006/publications/commentaries/biodiversity/index.html>
Biodiversity related SoE 2006 information
Main report
Theme commentaries
Integrative commentaries
- An integrated approach to environment and heritage issues
- Changing the delivery of environmental stewardship in Australia
- Critical issues in regional natural resource management
- Indigenous involvement in environmental and heritage management
- Living in a land of fire
- Living in a variable climate
- Progress in accessing environmental data and information
- The suburbanisation of coastal Australia
Current or emerging issues
- Birds of woodlands and grasslands
- Freshwater protected areas in Australia
- Genetically modified organisms
- Groundwater fauna
- Incentives for natural and cultural heritage conservation
- Monitoring in the rangelands
- Progress in restoring our environment
- Property rights and the environment
- Review of the EPBC Act
- Species information partnerships: sharing knowledge on threatened species
- Spring wetlands of the Great Artesian Basin
- The dilemma of conflicting environmental outcomes
- The disappearing frogs
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