Land Use: Rangelands

Rangelands

What are Rangelands?

More than 75% of Australia is defined as rangelands including tropical savannas, woodlands, shrublands and grasslands.

The Audit worked with the ACRIS Management Committee to compile a national report in 2007 on change in the rangelands. Indicators of rangelands change have been expressed under a number of broad themes:

Integrated Natural Resource Reporting

A key role for the National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) was to report against indicators within the National NRM Monitoring and Evaluation Framework. While these indicators cover a range of natural resource management topics they are essentially theme-based. For us to be able to make sense of all this information we needed to know how it can be integrated to include the social and economic aspects of natural (more)...