Actual fire regimes compared to optimal fire regimes |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Air pollution from transport |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Poor |
Ambient ozone levels (summer smog) |
Good |
Stable |
Good |
Annual greenhouse gas emissions |
Poor |
Improving |
Good |
Annual production of wood products from state forests compared to sustainable harvest levels |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Area affected by salinity |
Fair |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Area and percentage of forest and net area of forest available and suitable for wood production |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Area and type of human-induced disturbance – grazing |
Unknown |
Stable |
Poor |
Area and type of human-induced disturbance – planned burns |
Fair |
Unclear |
Good |
Area of forest by type and tenure - plantation Forest in Private Land |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Area of forest type by growth stage |
Fair |
Improving |
Good |
Area of forest type by growth stage distribution in protected zones |
Fair |
Improving |
Fair |
Area of functional floodplain |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Area of Management in Priority Locations |
Fair |
Stable |
Fair |
Area of native forest harvested |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Area of native vegetation burnt in planned fires and bushfires |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Bushfire risk |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Poor |
Capacity to conduct and apply research and development aimed at improving forest management, including development of scientific understanding of forest ecosystem characteristics and functions |
Good |
Stable |
Good |
Carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide |
Good |
Improving |
Good |
Catchment inputs into coastal waters |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Change in Suitable Habitat |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Changes in Land Tenure |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Changes in major land uses in Victoria |
N/A |
Stable |
Good |
Community awareness of climate risks and associated responsibilities |
Mixed |
Unclear |
Fair |
Condition of flow regimes |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Conservation of coastal ecosystems in protected areas |
Fair |
Stable |
Fair |
Conservation of marine ecosystems in protected areas |
Mixed |
Stable |
Good |
Conservation of Victorian Ecosystems |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Considering climate change risks in land use planning (including in the coastal zone) |
Mixed |
Unclear |
Fair |
Consumption of renewable energy as a share of total energy consumption |
Poor |
Improving |
Good |
Contaminated sites |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Fair |
Contribution of forest ecosystems to the global greenhouse gas balance |
Poor |
Improving |
Good |
Councils (or other organisations) with urban forestry plans or urban greening or cooling-related strategies |
Mixed |
Improving |
Fair |
Deer |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Poor |
Degree of disturbance to native-forest species caused by invasive species |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Delivering water for the environment |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Dissolved oxygen concentration in rivers |
Good |
Stable |
Good |
Distribution and abundance of fish |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Distribution and abundance of frogs |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Distribution and abundance of macroinvertebrates |
Fair |
Stable |
Fair |
Distribution and abundance of waterbirds in the Murray Darling Basin |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Diversion rate |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Emissions of major air pollutants by sector |
Fair |
Unclear |
Fair |
Energy use per capita |
Poor |
Improving |
Good |
Energy used in the transport sector |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Enterococci bacteria |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Estuarine condition |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Extent and condition of key climate-sensitive ecosystems |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Fair |
Extent to which the economic framework supports the conservation and sustainable management of forests |
Fair |
Unclear |
Fair |
Extent to which the institutional framework supports the conservation and sustainable management of forests |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Extent to which the legal framework (laws, regulations, guidelines) supports the conservation and sustainable management of forests |
Fair |
Improving |
Fair |
Fragmentation of native forest cover |
Poor |
Unclear |
Fair |
Generation of municipal waste per capita |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Greenfield versus infill development |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Greenhouse gas emission and emission intensities from transport |
Poor |
Stable |
Good |
Groundwater ecosystems |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Groundwater harvested for consumptive use |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Groundwater levels |
Fair |
Mixed |
Fair |
Groundwater quality |
Mixed |
Stable |
Fair |
Harmful algae blooms |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Health and status of Ramsar wetlands in Victoria |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Health impacts of air pollution |
Fair |
Unclear |
Poor |
Health impacts of noise pollution |
Mixed |
Unclear |
Poor |
Horses |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Impacts of bushfires |
Poor |
Unclear |
Poor |
Impacts of fisheries production |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Indoor air quality |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Invasive freshwater plants and animals |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Invasive marine species |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Invasive terrestrial animals |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Poor |
Invasive terrestrial plants |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Invertebrates |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Investment and expenditure in forest management |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Land management activities |
Fair |
Improving |
Mixed |
Land use types in Victoria |
Fair |
N/A |
Good |
Landscape B:19 Scale Change |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Light pollution |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Litter and Illegal Dumping |
Good |
Improving |
Poor |
Little penguins |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Macroalgae on intertidal reefs |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Macroalgae-dominated subtidal reefs |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mangrove extent |
Mixed |
Unclear |
Good |
Marine and Coastal Waterbirds |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Migratory shorebirds |
Mixed |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Mobile invertebrates on intertidal reefs |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mobile megafaunal invertebrates on subtidal reefs |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Net Gain in Extent and Condition of Native Vegetation |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Number of dams, weirs and levees |
Fair |
Unclear |
Fair |
Number of in-situ and ex-situ conservation efforts for forest-dependent species |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Number of Victorian Government organisations that manage environmental assets that contribute to DELWP Standard Output Data |
Poor |
Unclear |
Poor |
Observed average rainfall |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Observed sea level |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Mixed |
Observed surface temperature |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Occurrence and impacts of extreme weather |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Occurrence of algal blooms |
Fair |
Unclear |
Fair |
Odour and noise |
Unknown |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Over-abundant sea urchins on subtidal reefs |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Fair |
Participation in natural resource management activities |
Good |
Improving |
Good |
Particle pollution (PM10 and PM2.5) |
Mixed |
Stable |
Fair |
Per capita transport energy use |
Poor |
Stable |
Good |
Percentage of agri-businesses using long-term weather and climate change projections |
Fair |
Improving |
Fair |
Percentage of agricultural land with approved irrigation |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Percentage of waterways and groundwater areas, subject to extraction, with a limit on extraction |
Good |
Stable |
Good |
pH |
Good |
Stable |
Good |
Piscivorous (fish-eating) birds |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Point source discharges to marine waters |
Unknown |
Unclear |
|
Private Land Conservation |
Fair |
Improving |
Good |
Projected changes in temperature |
N/A |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Projected changes to average rainfall |
N/A |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Projected runoff to dams and catchments |
N/A |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Projected sea level |
N/A |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Proportion of timber harvest area successfully regenerated by forest type |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Regional climate projections |
N/A |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Reported inland water pollution incidents (EPA) |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Riparian Vegetation Habitat Extent |
Poor |
Unclear |
Poor |
River health |
Poor |
Stable |
Good |
Salinity concentrations in rivers (EC) |
Mixed |
Stable |
Good |
Saltmarsh extent |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Scale and impact of agents and processes affecting forest health and vitality – bushfire affected area and climate |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Scale and impact of agents and processes affecting forest health and vitality – mortality, dieback, canopy health |
Fair |
Unclear |
Fair |
Sea-surface temperature |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Seagrass condition |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Fair |
Seagrass-dependent fish |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Sessile invertebrates on intertidal reefs |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Share of renewable energy generation of total electricity generation |
Poor |
Improving |
Good |
Snow cover |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Soil acidification |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Fair |
Soil carbon content |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Fair |
Soil erosion |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Poor |
Stratospheric ozone |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Subtidal reef fish |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Mixed |
Sulfur dioxide |
Good |
Stable |
Good |
Surface water harvested for consumptive use |
Poor |
Stable |
Good |
The status of forest-dependent species at risk of not maintaining viable breeding populations, as determined by legislation or scientific assessment |
Fair |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Threatened species that are wetland dependent |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Total electricity consumption |
Fair |
Improving |
Good |
Total electricity generation by fuel |
Poor |
Improving |
Good |
Total energy consumption by fuel |
Poor |
Stable |
Good |
Total Food Waste Generated |
Poor |
Stable |
Good |
Total Hazardous Waste managed and reported |
Fair |
Stable |
Fair |
Total net energy consumption by industry sector |
Poor |
Stable |
Good |
Total nitrogen concentration in rivers |
Mixed |
Stable |
Good |
Total phosphorus concentrations in rivers |
Mixed |
Stable |
Good |
Total Waste Generation |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Travel demand |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Trend in Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Distribution |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Trend in population number and distribution of Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Trend in population number and distribution of Murray crayfish (Euastacus armatus) |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Trend in population number and distribution of spotted tree frog (Litoria spenceri) |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Trend in population number and distribution of trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis) |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Trends in population number and distribution of Baw Baw frog (Philoria frosti) |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Trends in population number and distribution of Booroolong tree frog (Litoria booroolongensis) |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Trends in populations and distributions of threatened freshwater species |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Trends in populations and distributions of threatened terrestrial species |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Turbidity levels in rivers |
Mixed |
Deteriorating |
Good |
Use of best practice on agricultural lands |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Value ($) of forest-derived ecosystem services |
Fair |
Unclear |
Fair |
Vascular Plants |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Vertebrates |
Poor |
Deteriorating |
Fair |
Victorian ecosystem carbon stocks |
Fair |
Mixed |
Fair |
Victorians valuing nature |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Volume of sewage discharge to surface waters (EPA) |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |
Water recycling |
Fair |
Improving |
Good |
Water resources and storage trends |
Fair |
Stable |
Good |
Wetland extent and condition |
Unknown |
Unclear |
Poor |