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Updates

Welcome Australia’s new Threatened Plant Index

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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Only a few days left for 2020 index data gathering

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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Threatened Mammal Index pilot live!

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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Do you have data to shape Australia’s Threatened Species Index for 2020?

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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Threatened Bird Index V2.0 is live!

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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Stay tuned for the Threatened Bird Index V2.0 release!

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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Final stages of data gathering for Australia’s new indices

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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Do you have threatened species data?

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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Australia’s Threatened Species Index is alive!

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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Media Release: Australian threatened bird populations drop by half in 30 years on average

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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