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State

Very effective

Management measures maintain or improve the state of environment and secure it against known pressures.

Effective

Management measures maintain or improve the state of the environment, but pressures remain as significant factors that degrade environment values.

Partially effective

Management measures have limited impact on maintaining or improving the state of the environment.

Ineffective

Management measures are failing to stop substantial declines in the state of the environment.

Trend

Grade of assessment in comparison to previous assessments.

Unclear

Deteriorating

Stable

Improving

Confidence

Adequate confidence

Adequate high-quality evidence to support the assessment

Somewhat adequate

Reasonable evidence to support the assessment

Limited

Limited evidence to support the assessment

Low

Low or no evidence to support the assessment