Cows, cockies and atlases : use and abuse of biodiversity monitoring in environmental decision making

Lesson #I. Good long-term monitoring makes for informed and confident decisions on land management.<br />Lesson #2. Monitoring showing species and habitat decline can directly lead to better protection mechanisms.<br />Lesson #3. Results of monitoring can be ignored, misused and misquoted to achieve political ends.<br />Lesson #4. Are we seeing a decline in systematic species surveys by government?<br />Lesson #5. We don't know enough about what monitoring is happening and why monitoring isn't happening.<br />Lesson #6. Disparate data sets and cumbersome collection methods are hindering species status monitoring.<br />Lesson #7. Make better use of existing resomces and expertise.<br />Lesson #8. Make monitoring data more accessible and enable it to be more repeatable.<br />Lesson #9. Embed the requirement for monitoring in biodiversity and threatened species legislation.<br />Lesson #10. Understand better the social elements of ecological monitoring