National results

Protecting our targets

‘Targets’ are focal values on our reserves and partners’ land that we wish to protect. They are ecological (vegetation communities, species and landscape features), social (access to Country, wellbeing) or cultural (sites, stories, species), and help us focus our land management. We measure our targets’ health over time to ensure our actions are helping them improve and delivering conservation impact.

In our ‘Target assessment’, we report the target’s ‘baseline’ health rating from when we purchased the reserve and compare it against the target’s ‘current’ health rating. Since we began the management of our reserve network, we've maintained or improved about 90% of our targets (see graph for changes over time).

Some of our targets have declined in condition. The ‘Analyse & Adapt’ phase of our CMP tells us this is largely due to increased extreme weather events.

Target assessment

Baseline – The rating of the target after first assessment
Current – The rating of the target after recent assessment

Managing threats 

‘Threats’ are things that negatively impact the health of our reserves’ targets. We work to manage, reduce or eliminate threats such as feral animals, weeds, erosion, inappropriate fire regimes, climate change's impacts and biodiversity loss. Our threats are rated using the criteria of scope, severity and reversibility.

In our ‘Threat assessment’, we report the threat’s ‘baseline’ rating from when we purchased the reserve and compare it against the threat’s ‘current’ rating. There are new and emerging threats, which we've recently identified and may not have a baseline rating, we classify these threats as ‘Not available’ (N/A).

On average, since we commenced management of our reserve network, we've reduced or stabilised about 86% of our threats. With the impacts of climate change already being observed on our reserves, and the expansion of new weeds and invasive plants, the stabilisation of threats through our on-ground work is sometimes measured as reasonable steps towards our goals.

With only 13% of threats worsening across our reserve network, we recognise that not all threats are under our control. We will never stop working hard to manage these and protect our targets.

Threat assessment

Baseline – The rating of the threat after first assessment
Current – The rating of the threat after recent assessment