We are excited to announce that the Threatened Species Index has been recognised as Australia’s key biodiversity metric – being featured among Australia’s top 50 well-being indicators. These indicators are a part of the Measuring What Matters framework developed by the Department of Treasury. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our 200+…
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The TSX team have been quite busy over the last few months. To find out what we’ve been up to, check out our Autumn 2023 newsletter, available here. Therein we discuss the official release of the 2022 index in April, we announce the release of our new TSX training package, and we provide details on…
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As part of the release of the 2020 Threatened Species Index, two new factsheets have been produced that summarise the updated index results for mammals. These factsheets were developed because of the number of new mammals species that were added for NSW between the 2019 and 2020 version of the Threatened Species Index for mammals.…
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Australia’s first Threatened Plant Index is now available as a pilot! After two years of collaboration, data gathering and consultations, the first iteration of this new index covers the period between 1995 and 2017. It captures high-quality time series (monitoring) data on 112 threatened Australian plants from more than 600 locations across the country The 2020…
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Dear Wildlife Enthusiasts, Kudos to all of you who repeatedly monitor threatened birds, mammals, and plants in a standardised way at fixed sites over time! Your data is likely suitable for inclusion in Australia’s Threatened Species Index (TSX), as long as you have at least two years of data and you repeat your monitoring at…
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Australia’s first Threatened Mammal Index is now available as a pilot! The first iteration of this new index covers the period between 1995 and 2016 and captures high-quality time series (monitoring) data on 57 threatened and near-threatened Australian mammals from a total of almost 10,000 surveys and from over 1,000 locations across the country! The first…
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Dear wildlife enthusiasts, Once again we are calling for new data to produce Australia’s (and the World’s) first Threatened Species Index (TSX) for 2020! Do you count threatened or near-threatened birds, plants or mammals? We are collecting monitoring data for the TSX until 31 May 2020. This year, we are particularly keen to gather enough…
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Welcome Australia’s Threatened Bird Index (TBX) – in its second year of running! The index now contains high-quality time series on 65 bird taxa monitored at over 17,000 sites! The time series are as short as 2 years, with some of them as long as 55 years – this is data from over 400,000 surveys!…
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Exciting news everyone! The second iteration of the Threatened Bird Index (TBX) will be released on December 2nd at 12:00noon AEST! Make sure to tune in and find out how Australia’s threatened and near-threatened birds are going! Since last year, the amount of data integrated has jumped from 10,000 to over 17,000 monitored sites and…
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Exciting times for tracking and reporting on how Australia’s threatened species are going! Right now, our project team is just about to finalise the data gathering round to develop a brand-new index for threatened mammals and plants as well as an updated bird index! We are absolutely thrilled about the amount of data received for…
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