National Threatened Species Day (NTSD) is held on 7 September each year. The theme for 2007 is "Protecting Places, Protecting Species" and focuses on the importance of protecting habitat for the conservation of biodiversity.
The northern hopping-mouse is one of Australia's threatened species
© Ian Morris
Events are held nationally throughout September - Biodiversity Month. Recipients of Round 10 of the TSN Community Grants will also be announced on 7 September.
Australia's landscapes and species have been severely impacted by over 200 years of habitat loss and fragmentation. The impacts of land development, introduced plants and animals, grazing, salinity, changed fire regimes, pollution, and a changing climate all place additional pressure on our threatened species and their shrinking habitats.
Well-managed protected areas provide our threatened species and ecosystems with important refuges from many of these threats. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) defines a protected area as: "An area of land (and/or sea) especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means".
Protected areas in Australia include national parks, nature reserves, wilderness parks, marine reserves, crown reserves, and non-government managed reserves such as private conservancies, private lands with perpetual covenants and Indigenous Protected Areas.
For 17 years TSN has worked with a range of community groups to protect and manage threatened species and their habitats.
The following factsheets describe a number of threatened species, the impacts that climate change will have on their fight for survival and what you can do to help build these species’ resilience to the impacts of climate change.
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