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General

Biodiversity strategy

  • Australia's Strategy for Nature 2019-2030 - 2019

Books and reports

  • Assessment of Australia's Terrestrial Biodiversity 2008
  • Australian Government Response to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Climate Change, Environment and the Arts: Inquiry into Australia’s biodiversity in a changing climate: the way forward - 2016
  • Australia's National Reports to the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
    • First report - 1998
    • Second report - 2001
    • Third report - 2005
    • Fourth report - 2009
    • Fifth report - 2014
    • Sixth report - 2020
  • Biodiversity: Managing a national asset - 2006
  • 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
  • Ecosystem Services and Australian Natural Resource Management (NRM) Futures - August 2007
  • Ecosystem services: Key concepts and applications - 2010
  • Encouraging Environmental Philanthropy - 2007
  • Evaluating business investment in biodiversity conservation - Final report - 2016
  • Financing long term conservation action - November 2005
  • Knowledge for purpose: Managing research for uptake - a guide to a knowledge and adoption program - 2012
  • Koala Conservation INFFER Report - 2020
  • Koala Conservation INFFER Report - 2022
  • Making Economic Valuation Work for Biodiversity Conservation - May 2005
  • Managing access to Australia's biological resources: developing a nationally consistent approach - October 1996
  • A national approach to biodiversity decline - Report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council - 2005
  • National Koala Conservation and Management Strategy 2009-2014: First Implementation Report to the Natural Resources Management Ministerial Council - 2010
  • National Koala Conservation and Management Strategy 2009-2014 - November 2009
  • National Koala Conservation Strategy - Review of progress in implementing the 1998 national koala conservation strategy - September 2008
  • National Koala Conservation Strategy - 1998 (ANZECC 59)
  • One Land - Many Stories: Prospectus of Investment - December 2012
  • ​Report on the Review of the first five years of Australia’s Biodiversity Conservation Strategy - 2016
  • Review of the conservation values of Commonwealth land in western Sydney - 2004
  • 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
  • The state of Australia's birds 2008 - December 2008
  • State of the Environment reporting - biodiversity

Brochures and fact sheets

  • Biodiversity: nature's variety, our heritage, our future - a guide to using and protecting Australia's biodiversity - 1998 (Revised 2001)
  • Conservation Management Zones of Australia: information profiles - 2015

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Access to genetic resources

Books and reports

  • Commonwealth public inquiry into access to biological resources in Commonwealth areas - 2000
  • 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

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  • 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

Biodiversity conservation in regional planning

Books and reports

  • 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
  • Proceedings of the National Conservation Incentives Forum - July 2005

Brochures and fact sheets

  • Tax incentives for conservation - July 2004

Biodiversity hotspots

Books and reports

  • 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

Migratory species

  • Australian National Report to the 18th JAMBA, 12th CAMBA and 5th ROKAMBA Consultative Meetings, October 2016
  • Australian National Report to the 19th JAMBA, 13th CAMBA and 6th ROKAMBA Consultative Meetings, November 2018
  • Celebrating Australia’s Migratory Waterbirds and their habitats - 2017
  • Memorandum of Understanding on the Conservation of Migratory Sharks - fact sheet, 2011
  • Migratory Shorebirds of the East Asian - Australasian Flyway: Population estimates and internationally important sites - 2008
  • Revision of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Population Estimates for 37 listed Migratory Shorebird Species - 2016
  • Safe landings: conservation of migratory shorebirds in the east Asian-Australasian flyway - 2002
  • Three sharks listed as migratory species under the EPBC Act - fact sheet, 2010
  • Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds - 2015
  • Wildlife Conservation Plan for Seabirds - 2022

Guidelines and Manuals

  • National Light Pollution Guidelines for Wildlife Including Marine Turtles, Seabirds and Migratory Shorebirds - 2020

Bird and bat banding

  • Guidelines for banders
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  • How to use the ABBBS secure client portal - Quick reference cards

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Weeds

Books and reports

  • Australian Weeds Strategy 2017 to 2027
  • The determination of Weeds of National Significance

Case studies

  • Gamba Grass in northern Australia (State of the Environment 2006)

Weeds research

  • CSIRO Invasive Plants
  • AgriFutures
  • Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and the Australian National Herbarium

Brochures and fact sheets

  • Weeds and ferals on the loose! - 2002

Managing garden weeds

  • Managing garden weeds - bulbs, tubers and corms
  • Managing garden weeds - wind-dispersed plants

Guidelines and manuals

  • Introductory weed management manual (PDF - 610 KB)
  • Salvinia control manual: management and control options for salvinia (Salvinia molesta) in Australia (2006)

Invasive plants and the EPBC Act

  • Threat abatement plan to reduce the impacts on northern Australia's biodiversity by the five listed grasses - 2012
  • Loss and degradation of native plant and animal habitat by invasion of escaped garden plants, including aquatic plants - 2010

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