The Mountain Pygmy-possum Burramys parvus is one of the smallest Australian possums and is endemic to the alpine and subalpine regions of south-eastern Australia, where it is restricted to three ...

Australian Government submissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Our department publishes a series of comprehensive reports and databases that ...

The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (the Ramsar Convention) was signed in Ramsar, Iran on 2 February 1971. The Ramsar Convention aims to halt the worldwide loss of wetlands and to ...

The Recovery Plan for the Grey-headed Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus was prepared by the Australian Government and has been jointly made under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity ...

The Murrumbidgee Flow-MER Area-scale Project is being undertaken from 2024 to 2029. The project is led by Charles Sturt University in partnership with University of NSW (UNSW) and NSW Department of ...

The Government’s Australian Antarctic Strategy and 20 Year Action Plan calls for a revitalisation of Antarctic science including through the implementation of a coordinated and effective Antarctic ...

The Australian Government welcomes the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee’s report on the Australian grape and wine industry. The Australian Government thanks the ...

The introduction of non-native or native fish outside their natural ranges is one of the major conservation issues in inland aquatic environments. Regional differences in fish communities are ...

The Matted Flax-lily (Dianella amoena) is a small, perennial, tufted lily endemic to Victoria, where it is distributed from the south-west to the east of the State, occurring in grassland and grassy ...

This report is one in a series of three reports focused on the Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) ecological community and longwall coal mining. The THPSS is listed as a threatened ...

Until recently, the Australian Painted Snipe was considered to be a subspecies of the species Rostratula benghalensis that occurs in Africa and Asia. A recent taxonomic study by Lane and Rogers (2000) ...

Wasted food represents significant costs to households and businesses in Australia and has environmental consequences as well. The need to improve food waste data and information was identified as a ...