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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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On 28 March 2025 the government assumed a Caretaker role. Information on websites maintained by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water will be published in accordance with the Guidance on Caretaker Conventions until after the conclusion of the caretaker period.

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Figure 61 Native title determinations across Australia’s land and seas, as of 16 June 2021
Figure 62 Indigenous trainees on Roebuck Plains station, Yawuru country, Western Australia (left); Tourists and visitors at the Talaroo Hot Springs on Ewamian Country, Queensland (right)
Figure 63 Planting native vegetation to restore both the environment and economy
Figure 64 WWF-Australia’s 2018 community tree planting event at Oxley Park, Sydney, with Greening Australia
Figure 65 National Soils Advocate, the Honourable Penelope Wensley AC, inspecting a field of mixed pasture that is providing a good level of groundcover for healthy soils
Figure 66 Erosion control projects that rehabilitate large and active gullies (left – before; right – after) well connected to river systems are the most effective at improving water quality in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon
Photographs showing a bare, eroded landscape of gullies and orange earth on the left, and, a green, terraced area that looks much healthier.

Photos: NQ Dry Tropics and Queensland Government Landholders Driving Change Program

Source: Figure 67 in Bartley et al. (2020). Used with permission.

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Figure 67 A digital elevation model was derived from LiDAR data (a), showing information on the extent and location of current incised channel features (purple areas in b), and on locations where risks of incision may occur in the future (dark green areas – c); panel d combines b and c (blue boxes are different examples of gully erosion)
Four computer-generated images showing where the gullies and other erosion features occur, and which areas are at risk of erosion.

Note: Automated classification procedures based on fine-resolution digital elevation models are now providing these assessments in priority areas of Great Barrier Reef catchments.

Source: Figure 7 in Walker et al. (2020) of a cleared area on sodic soils (Goodnight Scrub, 25°14′S, 151°53′E).

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Figure 68 Site monitoring of water quality has used a controlled experimental design to compare water quality from rehabilitated and untreated gullies using automated monitoring equipment
Figure 69 A gully in the Burdekin River basin (left) that has been reshaped and revegetated (right) through a partnership between the Queensland Government and Greening Australia
Before and after photographs showing a bare, steep-sided gully turned into a smoothly graded hillside with new trees.

Note: Large gullies can individually supply considerable fine sediment to river systems and the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. Compared with an adjacent untreated gully, sediment concentrations declined by more than 90% in the following years.

Photo: Damon Telfer, Fruition Environmental Pty Ltd, 2021

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Figure 70 Erosion control programs have trialled a range of techniques in Great Barrier Reef catchments; rock capping of erodible soils and check dams have been used to help revegetate this site on Cape York Peninsula