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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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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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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