Submission—Implementing Australia's Strategy for Nature 2024–2030

On 21 October 2025, the Academy made a submission on implementing Australia's strategy for nature 2024–2030.

In the submission, the Academy recommends that the strategy implementation plan:

establish a national biodiversity monitoring program to measure progress toward the 2030 and 2050 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) commitments
set targeted research priorities and an associated investment framework sufficient to enable Australia to meet its GBF targets.
action the recommendations from the Samuel Review of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the EPBC Act), especially the commitment to legally enforceable National Environmental Standards
elevate freshwater ecosystems in equal standing with other ecosystems within the Strategy
set interim quantified milestones towards Australia’s GBF targets.

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