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Monitoring for management of conservation and recreation in Australian protected areas

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Protected areas are key to conservation of biodiversity, and Australia is one of the world’s megadiverse regions. Monitoring programs provide the information to assess the state of conservation resources, the severity of threats and the success of management responses. Here we compare the management priorities, monitoring priorities and actual monitoring practices of protected area management agencies in Australia, using four sets of data at continental scale and five at a more restricted regional scale. We track changes over a period of several years and focus at successively finer levels of detail. At both continental and regional scales, most management plans emphasise fire, invasive species and visitor management; and most monitoring programmes refer to visitor numbers and impacts as well as species and ecosystems. There is only a weak match, however, between reported management priorities and actual monitoring programmes; and the effectiveness of management responses is rarely monitored. The level of detail in visitor monitor programmes varies considerably: most parks count visitors, but few know what those visitors do. Threats from fire and invasive species receive more attention that those from recreation. At regional scale, the proportion of parks with defined monitoring programmes and priorities increased significantly from 2003/2004 to 2006/2007. Whilst only a proportion of protected areas monitor endangered species populations, for those that do this is the parameter reported in most detail, with many parks reporting single records of single individuals. Some parks also maintain anecdotal records of rare species outside routine monitoring programs.

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Acknowledgements

The 2006/2007 data were compiled whilst JR was a Visiting Fellow at ICER. We thank two anonymous referees for particularly detailed and constructive critiques.

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  1. Joanne Carmody

    Present address: Tweed Tourism, Tweed Heads, NSW, Australia

  2. Narelle King

    Present address: New South Wales Parks & Wildlife Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Authors and Affiliations

  1. International Centre for Ecotourism Research, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, 4222, Australia

    Ralf Buckley, Joanne Carmody & Narelle King

  2. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Jessica Robinson

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  1. Ralf Buckley
  2. Jessica Robinson
  3. Joanne Carmody
  4. Narelle King

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Correspondence toRalf Buckley.

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Buckley, R., Robinson, J., Carmody, J.et al. Monitoring for management of conservation and recreation in Australian protected areas.Biodivers Conserv17, 3589–3606 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-008-9448-7

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