The Biodiversity Chapter relates to a number of Tasmania Together goals and standards. Maintaining the condition of Tasmania's biodiversity and ensuring effective responses to the issues raised in the chapter are necessary to progress towards a number of Tasmania Together goals and standards, including the following.

• Goal 1: Ensure all Tasmanians have a reasonable standard of living with regard to food, shelter, transport, justice, education, communication, health and community services.
• Goal 12: Provide all Tasmanians with the opportunity to participate in decisions that affect their lives.
• Standard 1: To encourage an appropriate level of regional/local responsibility in decision making
• Goal 13: Have a system of government that is open, seeks and listens to people's views and ideas, and uses them in decision making at all levels.
• Standard 1: To promote community awareness and participation
• Goal 22: Value, protect and maintain our natural diversity
• Standard 1: To maintain or improve natural heritage including biodiversity, geodiversity and landscapes.
• Goal 23: Ensure there is a balance between environmental protection and economic and social development.
• Standard 1: To understand, protect and manage our globally significant natural and physical resources.
• Standard 2: To continually improve effective management systems and practices.
• Standard 3: To have a clean and green image in the international community.
• Standard 4: To achieve sustainable and appropriate land use.
• Goal 24: Ensure our natural resources are managed in a sustainable way now and for future generations.
• Standard 1: To limit conversion of land with native vegetation.
• Standard 2: To sustainably manage old-growth forests and to phase out clear felling in those forests
• Standard 3 To reduce air and water pollution
• Standard 4: To develop and implement fire management regimes that are appropriate for protecting environmental, economic and social values.
• Standard 5: Reduce reliance on chemical use by primary, secondary and tertiary industry and the domestic sector.
• Standard 6: To mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances and where possible, reduce their emissions.
• Standard 7: To maintain and enhance the productive capacity of soil and water.
• Standard 8: To minimise material consumption and waste generation.
• Standard 9: To reduce the adverse impacts of pests, weeds and pathogens.
• Standard 10: To maintain the Tasmanian wilderness resource and improve its quality.
• Standard 11: To optimise public use of the natural environment consistent with maintaining environmental values.
• Standard 12: To maximise the use of renewable energy.