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Australasian Journal of Environmental Management

Substantial areas of Australia have been revegetated for land protection and vegetation enhancement through publicly funded programs such as the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the Natural Heritage Trust. At present, there are no national monitoring and reporting guidelines for the collection of revegetation data in Australia to assist with monitoring program outcomes or assessing resource condition. Extensive stakeholder consultation was used to develop and evaluate a national set of core attributes to be used in guidelines for describing and mapping revegetation activity. The attributes can be used in the collection of site-based revegetation information to assess whether improvements in the extent and condition of vegetation are occurring and generating a return on investments. Use and adoption of the attributes will assist stakeholders to survey and map as well as to monitor and report on revegetation activities and investments at local, regional, state and national levels. The set of 18 core revegetation attributes has three categories: site, establishment and monitoring. These are incorporated in a revegetation manual being produced by the Bureau of Rural Sciences for land managers. We discuss how these revegetation attributes are likely to be relevant for monitoring and reporting of vegetation outcomes under the Australian Government's Caring for our Country initiative and other community-based programs.

Mapping and monitoring revegetation activities in Australia – towards national core attributes