About Australia’s Environment

The annual Australia’s Environment Report summarises a large amount of observations on the trajectory of our natural resources and ecosystems.

The annual Australia’s Environment Report summarises a large amount of observations on the trajectory of our natural resources and ecosystems. On the website (ausenv.tern.org.au) you can find a national summary report, as well as report cards for different types of administrative and geographical regions. In the accompanying data explorer, the spatial data can be viewed as maps, accounts or charts by region and land use type and downloaded for further use.

You can find details about the aims and background of Australia’s Environment Report in the following short paper:

Van Dijk, A.I.J.M. and Rahman, J. (2019). Synthesising multiple observations into annual environmental condition reports: the OzWALD system and Australia’s Environment Explorer. In Elsawah, S. (ed.) MODSIM2019, 23rd International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2019, pp. 884–890.
ISBN: 978-0-9758400-9-2. https://doi.org/10.36334/modsim.2019.J5.vandijk 

Previous Reports

Use the links below to access archived reports from previous years.

Acknowledgements

Production of this report was made possible by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and data published by Geoscience Australia, Bureau of Meteorology, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, European Commission, NASA, Japan Meteorological Agency, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US National Snow and Ice Data Center, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, CSIRO, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, NCRIS-enabled Atlas of Living Australia and Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) capabilities ,Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Australian Bureau of Agricultural and
Resource Economics.