The national database of threatened species on Australian islands (Version 1; 2021)

PRESENTERS: Professor Salit Kark – Saving Species on Australian Islands Project Leader, Head of the Biodiversity Research Group, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland

Dr Peter Baxter – Senior Research Fellow, The Biodiversity Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland

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We provide an overview of the national database of threatened species on Australian islands (Professor Salit Kark, University of Queensland; UQ), and worked examples showing its utility (Dr Peter Baxter, UQ). The database was produced as part of the National Environment Science Program (NESP) Threatened Species Recovery hub project 4.2 “Saving species on Australian islands”. The database uses island data developed by the Australian government and released under Creative Commons license CC-BY: “Islands of Australia, 2015, Commonwealth of Australia 2015”. To download the database and for further information, including factsheets, publications, and how to cite the database, see: https://karkgroup.org/index/our-projects/australian-islands