Dear wildlife enthusiasts, We need your help to develop and shape Australia’s (and the World’s) first Threatened Species Index (TSX)! Do you count threatened or near-threatened birds, plants or mammals? We are collecting monitoring data for the Threatened Species Index until 15 June 2019. The index will do for Australia’s threatened species what the ASX…
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Exciting time for tracking changes in threatened species populations! Australia (and the world) has now its first Threatened Species Index (TSX)! The TSX was launched on the 27th of November 2018 by the Australian Threatened Species Commissioner, Dr Sally Box. Prominent speakers endorsed the value of the TSX such as the Honourable Minister Leeanne Enoch…
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On average, populations of Australia’s threatened birds have decreased by half since 1985, according to Australia’s new Threatened Bird Index. According to Lead researcher Dr Elisa Bayraktarov from the University of Queensland, some bird species have decreased by more and others by less, but that is the average trend across species for which data is…
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We’d like to thank the National Environmental Science Program and supporters from BirdLife Australia, the Commonwealth and all State and Territory governments, and our partners from many conservation and research organisations for making the Threatened Species Index (TSX) possible! A warm thank you to everyone who provided data for the TSX – your efforts to…
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