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Objective

Recommendation

Key issues

Actions taken

Objective

To protect species which are vulnerable to climate change.

Recommendation

It is recommended that the Department of Environment and Land Management makes available information derived from climate change/species modelling programmes, such as those developed under the auspices of the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council, to be used in the preparation of species/habitat reservation and conservation management strategies.

Key issues

This information is available from Volume 2 of the last SoE Report (SDAC 1997), which can be downloaded. The final objective, final recommendation, and a summary of key management actions are detailed below.

Actions taken

Currently, Tasmania does not have access to the detailed climate modelling similar to the studies that have been undertaken by the CSIRO for Victoria and New South Wales, to allow biodiversity impacts and management responses (such as reserve design) to be determined.

However, actions taken since the previous SoE Report (1997) that are related to this recommendation, include:

• monitoring on Macquarie Island of climate change impacts on mosses by the Nature Conservation Branch of the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment;
   
• monitoring at Warra long-term site in the Southern Forests by Forestry Tasmania;
   
• baseline monitoring of native grasses; and
   
• Word Heritage Area baseline monitoring.