Reporting tools
There are a number of resources available online including databases, reporting tools, and details of research and research in progress related to natural resource management.
Natural Resources Information Management Toolkit
The toolkit is designed to assist regional natural resources management groups discover, access, visualise and manage their data and information. It can be used as a text book document, teaching aid or as a series of stand-alone modules, and includes three components:
- executive summary
- guide for technical managers
- technical modules
Environmental reporting tool
This reporting tool allows the user to find information on nationally listed species and ecological communities, wetlands and protected areas, and heritage sites recorded in national databases. The tool searches the environmental databases of the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, and can produce summary reports by region, local government area, postcode or self defined search areas.
Species profile and threats database
This database provides information about species and ecological communities under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. It includes information about the species such as:
- what it looks like
- population and distribution
- habitat
- movements
- reproduction
- taxonomic comments
The database's search function allows the user to search by name of look through lists of threatened fauna or flora, ecological communities and critical habitats.
Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online database
This database provides access to completed and current research.
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