Marine and Coastal Hub Research Overview 6: Threatened species and ecosystems (2025). National Environmental Science Program.
Overview
Governments in Australia play an important role in promoting and managing the recovery of threatened species and ecological communities.
They need timely conservation advice in order to assess nominations for threatened category listings and recovery actions, and determine policies to mitigate threats.
Marine and Coastal Hub projects bring people together to share knowledge, identify research needs, and collect data through surveys, tagging, mapping, citizen science, sampling and experimentation.
Project co-design, participation and delivery supports First Nations peoples’ cultural connections and growing involvement in research leadership and management of Country.
This two-page fact sheet presents an overview of hub research in the areas of threat mitigation, and status, trends and habitat use. Much of this work involves Indigenous leadership and collaboration. The fact sheets include summaries of outcomes for research users and brief project examples.
