{"id":1914,"date":"2017-03-14T03:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T03:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2017-03-14T03:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T03:17:05","slug":"australia-state-of-the-environment-2016-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/?p=1914","title":{"rendered":"Australia State of the Environment 2016 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1916\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Australia-State-of-the-Environment-2016-229x300.png\" alt=\"Australia State of the Environment 2016 Report\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Australia-State-of-the-Environment-2016-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Australia-State-of-the-Environment-2016-768x1007.png 768w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Australia-State-of-the-Environment-2016-781x1024.png 781w, https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Australia-State-of-the-Environment-2016.png 996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/>Every five years the federal government presents a State of the Environment report, prepared by a group of independent experts, and the 2016 report has just been released.<\/p>\n<p>The report predicts that population growth and economic development will be the main drivers of environmental problems such as land-use change, habitat destruction, invasive species, and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, this isn\u2019t a report that will cheer you up or make you feel particularly hopeful. You\u2019ll find out that Australia\u2019s biodiversity is still declining with more ecological communities animals and plants added to the nationally threatened list since the last report, that the past 5\u00a0years have been characterised by extreme weather events, many with strong impacts on the coast and that climate change pressure on the environment is increasing.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a few positives, like Australia\u2019s conservation estate has increased in size, citizen science has expanded, land clearing rates have stabilised everywhere (apart from in Queensland!) and access to information about the environment has improved.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to delve deeper but don\u2019t want to read the whole report, have a look at a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/five-yearly-environmental-stocktake-highlights-the-conflict-between-economy-and-nature-73964?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%208%202017%20-%2069165152&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%208%202017%20-%2069165152+CID_3ff61643a85b37c51873d5de679bd9c0&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor&amp;utm_term=Five-yearly%20environmental%20stocktake%20highlights%20the%20conflict%20between%20economy%20and%20nature\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">summary article of the key findings<\/a>, written by the Chair of expert panel, or visit the State of the Environment 2016 website to see an <a href=\"https:\/\/soe.environment.gov.au\/key-findings-all\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">overview of the key findings<\/a> where you can select categories of most interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every five years the federal government presents a State of the Environment report, prepared by a group of independent experts, and the 2016 report has just been released. The report predicts that population growth and economic development will be the main drivers of environmental problems such as land-use change, habitat destruction, invasive species, and climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsccmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}