Assessing recovery in threatened Australian amphibians and reptiles. This project aims to use a new methodology for determining the recovery potential of threatened species, and assessing the effectiv

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Assessing recovery in threatened Australian amphibians and reptiles. This project aims to use a new methodology for determining the recovery potential of threatened species, and assessing the effectiveness of conservation actions. Using Australian reptiles and amphibians as a case study, this project expects to determine what is required to improve the conservation trajectory of Australia’s threatened species, and examine the effectiveness of current conservation policy. Expected outcomes of this project are the identification of species that are at elevated risk of extinction, and determining the conservation actions required to prevent these. This should provide significant benefits for improving conservation policy and planning in Australia, and the way that governments measure species recovery.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4104 - Environmental Management. Lead: Prof David Chapple