Members of the conservation planning group gave a successful demonstration of their new decision-support software in Perth on 16 March 2016. The software has been developed by Jana Brotánková, with Justin Osbaldiston working on the graphical user interface. Funding for the five-year project, focused on identifying priorities for management actions on about 600 islands off … Continue reading Packed house for demonstration of new decision-support software
Land clearing in Queensland: Back to the good old days?
A new article in web-based forum The Conversation this morning covers accelerated land-clearing in Queensland. After regulations were put in place in the 1990s to slow the loss of native vegetation and identify regional ecosystems of conservation concern, clearing laws were relaxed under the conservative Newman government which came to power in 2012. The Labor … Continue reading Land clearing in Queensland: Back to the good old days?
Workshop to plan for threatened species across Northern Australia
In Darwin from 17th to 19th of November, Bob Pressey, Stephanie Trotter, Jorge Álvarez-Romero and Jeremy Vanderwal led a workshop on threatened species in northern Australia. The workshop was funded by the Northern Australia NESP (National Environmental Science Program) Hub, with the main aim of designing a multi-year project to develop new data and more accurately identify … Continue reading Workshop to plan for threatened species across Northern Australia
How much difference do protected areas make?
If you think you know the answer to this question, you might want to check out a new theme issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - “Measuring the difference made by protected areas: methods, applications and implications for policy and practice”. The theme issue, with 16 papers (5 open access) can be … Continue reading How much difference do protected areas make?
SAVING THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: WHAT THE NEXT QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT MUST DO
The election of the next Queensland government will be held on the 31st of January. Both major parties – the incumbent Liberal National Party and Labor as its main competition – are making promises about investment in the future of the Great Barrier Reef. The Reef has been a topic of strong public and political … Continue reading SAVING THE GREAT BARRIER REEF: WHAT THE NEXT QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT MUST DO
CONVERSATION PIECE: The plan to save the Great Barrier Reef is destined to fail unless …
With the Great Barrier Reef in decline, and development pressures mounting in and around the Reef, national and international spotlights have been turned on government policies. One response by the Australian and Queensland Governments is their draft Reef 2050 Long-term Sustainability Plan. The Conservation Planning Group, through Bob Pressey, contributed to a submission on the … Continue reading CONVERSATION PIECE: The plan to save the Great Barrier Reef is destined to fail unless …