Glossary

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The environment where a plant or animal normally lives and reproduces. 

Aspects of the natural and cultural environment having aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance, or other significance for current and future generations of Australians. They include inherited monuments, objects, buildings, landscapes, culture and traditions.  

Objects that provide material evidence of Australia’s heritage (Indigenous, natural, historic). Objects may occur in situ at significant sites or be held in collecting institutions (e.g. archives, museums, zoos, botanic gardens) or as part of recognised collections (e.g. historic buildings, Australian Antarctic Division). 

Natural and cultural (or natural–cultural) sites, structures, complexes, and areas and regions, including landscapes, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance, or other special value for current and future generations of Australians. They include places, complexes and cultural landscapes that are of traditional importance, or that are part of the contemporary cultural practice of Indigenous communities or have other special significance to them. 

All parts of the sea that are not included in the exclusive economic zone, territorial sea or in the internal waters of a state. 

(Indigenous); lands located on Aboriginal ancestral lands with cultural and spiritual significance to the Aboriginal people who live there. Complex connections to land include cultural, spiritual and environmental obligations, including obligations for the protection of sacred sites. 

The knowledge, skills, competencies and attributes of individuals that help to create personal, social and economic wellbeing (Keeley 2007). 

Related to water quality, movement and distribution.