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We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the sovereign Traditional Owners of Australia and thank them for their stewardship of this Country, its lands, waters and skies. We respectfully acknowledge their culture and customary practices, and pay respect to their Ancestors, Elders and future leaders.

For the first time, the State of the Environment report includes a strong Indigenous narrative across all 12 thematic chapters, a narrative crafted through recognising the leadership, collaboration and authorship of Indigenous Australians who continue their connection as Traditional Owners to their lands, waters and skies.

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Figure 21 Locations of ecosystems experiencing collapse
Figure 22 Cumulative number of threatened ecological communities listed under the EPBC Act
Figure 23 Batemans Bay Local Aboriginal Land Council Ranger Group working in the Clyde Catchment to reduce effects of sedimentation on waterways
Figure 24 Number of threats listed as impacting EPBC Act–listed threatened species
Figure 25 Prevalence of threats to Australian threatened taxa
A series of column graphs. They are ordered by size, from the threat that affects most taxa (invasive species) to that which affects the fewest (pollution). In this order, the graphs show that: 1. more than three-quarters of taxa threatened by invasive sp

EPBC Act = Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Notes:

  1. n = 1,533
  2. Each graph is scaled according to the number of taxa listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as being affected by each threat category (e.g. Urban development). Each chart segment represents a subclass threat (e.g. Housing). The threat category ‘Geological events’ is not shown here because it impacts <20 species, and subclass threats that impact <5 taxa (e.g. Renewable energy) are not shown because they were too small to be displayed effectively.
  3. ‘Agriculture (other)’ includes land clearing, habitat fragmentation and/or habitat degradation.

Source: Reproduced with permission from Kearney et al. (2018b)

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Figure 26 Distribution of (a) rainfall zones; (b) land tenure in the northern Australian tropical savanna region
Figure 27 Fires across land tenure types within tropical savanna in northern Australia showing (a) change in median fire size, and change in early dry season number of fires in the (b) high-rainfall (>1,000 mm/yr) and (c) low-rainfall (600–1,000 mm/yr) zones; vertical dashed lines represent the start of savanna burning in 2012
Three line graphs. The first shows that median fire size has been falling since 2000, possibly helped by the introduction of savannah burning. The second shows that since the Savanna Burning Methodology was enacted, the number of fires in high rainfall re

km2 = square kilometre; mm/yr = millimetres per year

Source: Perry et al. (2021)

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Figure 28 Vertebrate fauna habitat burned during the 2019–20 bushfires
Figure 29 Dunnart
Figure 30 Locations of urban-restricted threatened species across Australia