Australia's Actions for Nature

Western Shield is DBCA’s lead wildlife recovery program. It is one of the biggest wildlife conservation programs ever undertaken in Australia and aims to recover and sustain wild populations of Western Australian native fauna threatened by foxes and feral cats.

Breeding of native species for conservation is undertaken at Perth Zoo for western swamp tortoise, dibbler and numbat. Perth Zoo also has a ‘head start’ program for white-bellied and orange- bellied frogs, where eggs are collected from the wild and progeny reared in the laboratory for release into the wild.

The Plan for Our Parks initiative was announced by the Premier on 20 February 2019 to create a minimum of five million hectares of new national parks, marine parks and other conservation reserves over the next five years.

The Nature Refuges Program (the Program) is the Queensland Government’s primary private protected area program. The program works with landholders who have an interest in protecting and managing the significant conservation values of their land in perpetuity.

Barrer Hill is approximately 50 hectares and has a long history of human impacts attributed to commercial pine plantations and livestock grazing. It retains some high conservation values with rocky grasslands home to threatened species like the pink-tailed worm-lizard (Aprasia parapulchella).

The aim of the Strategy is to provide biodiversity rich, resilient landscapes stretching from the inner city to the mountains, where well-functioning ecosystems can meet the needs of people and the environment.

Recent dieback has led to widespread death of Blakely’s Red Gum (Eucalyptus blakelyi) in the north of the ACT, causing significant concern for the Territory government. It is thought that both the impacts of clearing and climate events influence the onset and severity of insect attacks.

The Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program started in 2017 to inform spatial prioritisation of monitoring investment effort along Victoria’s coastline and to ensure that data collected is managed centrally and made publicly available.

The Regional Land Partnerships (RLP) Program is a core component of the Government's $1 billion investment under Phase 2 of its National Landcare Program.