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This criterion is concerned with two of the fundamental components of a forest ecosystem: soil and water. Forests are important for soil conservation because they contribute directly to soil production and maintenance, and prevent or reduce soil erosion. Forested catchments also provide and…
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Carbon farming
'Carbon farming' describes agricultural and land management activities that help mitigate climate change by:reducing emissions of the main GHGs: methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, by avoiding or minimising themstoring more carbon — also…
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Information for this profile is drawn from Australia's State of the Forests Report 2018 (SOFR). ABARES is in the process of updating indicators for SOFR with data up to or as at 2021. This forest profile will be updated with new data in early 2024.
Australia has 3.6 million…
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2 April 2024Who does this notice affect?This notice affects importers of fresh horticulture produce and brokers.What has changed?Import conditions are now published on BICON for the importation of fresh chilli fruit from Fiji (except the Island of Rotuma). Three (3) varieties of chilli fruit…
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29 October 2010
Draft review of policy for the importation of hops (Humulus species) propagative material into Australia
This Biosecurity Australia Advice (BAA) invites stakeholders to provide…
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The following section explains carbon markets and how they work.Carbon marketsA carbon market is a market in which carbon units, representing emissions reduced or avoided or carbon stored, are exchanged within a defined framework.Although ‘carbon market’ is a commonly used term, there is no…
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Check the Biosecurity Import Conditions (BICON) system, and your Import Permit conditions (if relevant) to determine all import requirements prior to importing, and to confirm that offshore phosphine…
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The recent history of Australia's native forest management is rife with conflict. No one disagreed that the forests were important to us all. The stumbling block was the diverse range of opinions on…
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This indicator measures the conservation status of nationally listed threatened forest dwelling species. Documentation of this information over time allows analysis of changes to species’ conservation status indicating the extent to which forest species biodiversity is being maintained.This is the…
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