The National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) and Bureau of Rural Sciences worked with state and territory governments to develop a national baseline of native vegetation extent for the year 2004-2005.

This booklet is part of a series that describes the status of data and information relevant to national indicators agreed under the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

The National Land & Water Resources Audit and its partners have produced the first national assessment of significant invasive animals in Australia since the Landscape Health in Australia Assessment of 2001.

This project aimed to discover and negotiate access to all existing GIS (electronic) ECM habitat maps, collate the GIS maps and then apply the relevant national classification schemes, develop new nationally consisten

Monitoring coastal habitat extent and condition is now easier due to the strategic investment in high resolution images for priority areas around Australia's coastline.