What is biodiversity monitoring?
With the Australian community being increasingly concerned about the loss of biodiversity
from local to continental to global scales, there is an urgent need to operationalise the
concept of biodiversity. Demands are being placed on policy makers, natural resource
managers and those making their livelihood from the rangelands to make decisions about
biodiversity conservation issues in the immediate and near future timeframes. Hence,
biodiversity conservation is a crisis discipline that demands an adaptive approach where
intervention and research together help achieve improved conservation outcomes. Monitoring
and assessment is a tool in the NRM tool-kit that helps guide intervention.