Publications and resources
Agreements
- Bilateral Agreements
- Intergovernmental Agreements
- Communiqué
- Transitional Agreements for Caring for our Country
- Australian Capital Territory (PDF - 79 KB) | (RTF - 413 KB)
- New South Wales (PDF - 415 KB) | (RTF - 1,367 KB)
- Northern Territory (PDF - 89 KB) | (RTF - 361 KB)
- Queensland (PDF - 312 KB) | (RTF - 1,033 KB)
- South Australia (PDF - 192 KB) | (RTF - 507 KB)
- Tasmania (PDF - 112 KB) | (RTF - 384 KB)
- Victoria (PDF - 229 KB) | (RTF - 2,774 KB)
- Western Australia (PDF - 204 KB) | (RTF - 543 KB)
Annual reports
- National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) and Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) Regional Programs Report
- National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) Annual Report
- Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) Annual Report
Books and reports
- Ask First: A guide to respecting Indigenous Heritage places and values - 2002
- Australian farms natural resource management 2004-2005 (PDF - 544 KB) - 2006
- Australian Natural Heritage Charter - 2002
- Protecting Natural Heritage - 2003
- Biodiversity benefits of vegetation enhancement
- Burdekin Dry Tropics natural resource management caring for country plan - 2005
- Bushcare projects field evaluation 1997-2002 - 2005
- Capacity building program/planning logic - 2002
- Caring for our Country business plan 2009-10 - 2008
- Caring for our Country outcomes 2008-2013 - 2008
- Cost effective feral animal exclusion fencing for areas of high conservation value in Australia - 2004
- Developing a Performance Story Report: User Guide - 2009
- Developing and using program logic in natural resource management: user guide - 2009
- Development of an agreed code of practice and standard operating procedures for the humane capture, handling or destruction of feral animals in Australia - 2004
- Development of guidelines for the delivery of conservation incentives by regional organisations
- Environmental Stewardship - Box Gum Grassy Woodland Project implementation plan - 2008
- Fire management - managing for biodiversity in the rangelands - 2004
- Identification of Western Australian Grey Nurse Shark aggregation sites - 2005
- Improving the Capacity to Monitor Wind and Water Erosion: A Review - 2009
- Indigenous engagement in NRM in WA - 2006
- Integrating science into natural resource management through NHT and NAP - 2006
- Integration of biodiversity conservation in regional planning
- Making a difference: a celebration of Landcare - 2009
- Making economic valuation work for biodiversity conservation - 2005
- Managing Australian landscapes in a changing climate - a climate change primer for regional natural resource managment bodies - 2008
- National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action Plan 2004-2007 - 2004
- Performance Story Report: A study of Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren and Fleurieu Peninsula Swamps Recovery Program and how it contributed to biodiversity outcomes in the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Natural Resources Management Region - 2009
- Performance Story Report: The Contribution of Strategic Tree Farming to Regional NRM Outcomes - 2009
- Potential cane toad short to medium term control techniques – the biological feasibility and cost of exclusion as a mitigating control strategy - 2004
- Proceedings of the national monitoring and evaluation symposium - 2005
- Regional delivery of NRM - Moving forward - 2005
- Regional delivery of NRM - Moving forward: summary paper - 2005
- Report of the Natural Resource Management Community Forum - 2006
- Report of the Natural Resource Management Community Forum - 2004
- Report of the Natural Resource Management Community Forum - 2003
- Review of arrangements for regional delivery of Natural Resource Management programmes - 2006
- Risk assessment handbook for community groups in Natural Resource Management - 2005
- Salinity mapping methods in the Australian context - 2005
- Science and information to support the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the Natural Heritage Trust: position paper - 2003
- Scientific advice on Natural Resource Management - 2004
- Socio-economic impact assessment toolkit: A guide to assessing the socio-economic impacts of Marine Protected Areas in Australia - 2005
- The business of saving water - the report of the Murrumbidgee Valley water efficiency project (the Pratt Water report) - 2004
- The economic value of biodiversity: a scoping paper - 2003
- The National Land & Water Resources Audit 2002-08 - Achievements and Challenges - 2008
- Towards a national framework for managing the impact of groundwater and surface water interaction in Australia - 2006
- Working with Indigenous knowledge in natural resource management: Recommendations for Commonwealth agencies - 2004
Brochures
- Covenants for conservation - 2004
- Managing our natural resources: can markets help? - 2004
- Protecting > conserving > repairing: overview of the Australian Government's natural resource management initiatives - 2004
Case studies
Fact sheets
- A community guide to monitoring and evaluating Natural Resource Management projects - 2005
- Australian Government Envirofund - 2005
- Biodiversity fact sheets series
- A growing concern
- Biodiversity and local government
- Biodiversity - on our agenda
- Biodiversity on the edge
- Biodiversity sea change
- Caring for biodiversity in the Tanami
- Crossing the border for biodiversity
- Incentives for conserving biodiversity
- Indigenous knowledge helps manage our land
- Native grasses - a boon for graziers
- Protecting biodiversity - part of farming
- Revegetating cleared land
- Saving South Australia's Mid North grasslands
- Seeding the future
- Station hands... seeing the land anew
- Business Plan 2010-11: maps and supporting information
- Business Plan 2009-10: Target information sheets
- Caring for our Country
- Caring for our Country: a better outcome for Australia's environment and natural resources
- Caring for our Country: regional delivery
- Community Coastcare fact sheets
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Fact sheets about NRM
- Does your natural resource management project comply with national enviromental laws? - 2005
Frameworks
- A framework of regional (sub-national) level criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management in Australia - 1998
- A national framework for public environmental reporting - 2000
- A strategic science framework for the National Water Commission - 2006
- Council of Australian Governments water reform framework
- Environmental Stewardship Strategic Framework - 2009
- Framework for future NRM programmes - 2006
- National cooperative approach to integrated coastal zone management: Framework and implementation plan - 2006
- National framework for the management and monitoring of Australia's native vegetation - 2001
- National natural resource management monitoring and evaluation framework - 2009
- Natural resource management cross-cultural awareness training framework - 2005
Guidelines
- Guide to integrating Capacity Building into Regional NRM Planning
- Overview Guidelines for Community Engagement by Regional NRM Bodies
- Recognition of Caring for our Country guidelines
- Revised Recovery Plan Guidelines for Nationally Listed Threatened Species and Ecological Communities under the Commonwealth EPBC Act 1999
- Guidelines for indigenous participation in natural resource management
Legislation
- Natural Resources Management (Financial Assistance) Act No. 242 1992
- Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area Conservation Act No. 32 1994
- Natural Heritage Trust of Australia Act No. 76 1997
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act No. 91 1999
Newsletters
- In Focus (discontinued July 2006)
- National NRM Facilitator Network Newsletter (discontinued July 2006)
- Natural Resource Talk
- Related NRM newsletters
- Indigenous Protected Areas Newsletter Issue 1 - June 2004
- Indigenous Protected Areas Newsletter Issue 2 - May 2005
- Indigenous Protected Areas Newsletter Issue 3 - September 2006
Policies
- Australia's Oceans Policy
- Inquiry into water policy initiatives
- Native Vegetation Policy
- Water Policy
- Wetlands Policy
Strategies
- Caring for Our Country monitoring, evaluation, reporting and improvement strategy
- National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia's Biological Diversity
- National Water Quality Management Strategy
- National Weeds Strategy
- Strategic Plan for National Investment under the NHT
See also
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