Priority landscapes
Through research, climate modelling and analysis, we've identified the landscapes where we can make the biggest difference.
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Reserve scorecards.
Protecting our targets
Targets are the ecological (vegetation communities, species and landscape features), social (access to Country, wellbeing) or cultural (sites, stories, species) features in our Priority Landscapes, reserves and partnerships that are the focus of management to keep Country healthy.
Since we started managing land within our reserve network, we've maintained or improved the health of about 80% of our targets.
Some targets have declined in condition, largely due to the impacts of extreme weather events. Importantly, on reserves where evaluation reports have been done in the past three years, there are no targets that remain in ‘Poor’ condition.
Key:
Baseline – The rating of the target after first assessment
Current – The rating of the target after recent assessment
Overall health of our targets
Baseline
Current rating
Very good
Good
Fair
Poor
Very good
Good
Fair
Poor
Change over time
Overall threat ratings
Baseline
Current rating
Low
Medium
High
Very high
N/A
Low
Medium
High
Very high
Change over time
Managing threats
Our people are on the ground, immersed in caring for the land and building its resilience.
To improve the health of our targets, we work constantly to manage, reduce or eliminate threats such as feral animals, weeds and erosion.
The rating of a threat is determined by three criteria:
- scope,
- severity and
- reversibility.
To date, we've made great progress with some of our threats, 85% have been reduced or remain unchanged.
In recent evaluations, 8.7% of threats have increased. This reflects our improved understanding of the potential, exacerbated impacts of climate change on identified threats across our reserves.
Key:
Baseline – The rating of the threat after first assessment
Current – The rating of the threat after recent assessment
More on measuring impact
Reserve scorecards
Our reserve scorecards are a summary of the condition of our conservation reserves, based on ecological reviews that are conducted every 5 years.
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Measuring our impact
Bush Heritage uses the best knowledge available to deliver landscape-scale impact. Our team of scientists, field staff, data specialists, conservation planners and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships Managers work every day to manage our reserves.
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