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C29CFFDC-EF2B-4CD1-809C-CB6DB9B67C33 dataset DCCEEW Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director Decision Support & Analysis, Environment Data and Analysis Branch, Environment Information Australia Canberra ACT 2601 AU http://www.environment.gov.au/ DCCEEW-Spatial Enablement Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Spatial Data Manager, Spatial Enablement GPO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601 AU geospatial@dcceew.gov.au DCCEEW Koala Conservation Program | Biodiversity Programs Branch | Biodiversity Division Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director, National Koala Recovery Coordination 20251105 ArcGIS Metadata 1.0 Known_KHICC 2025-06-12T00:00:00 2025-07-15T00:00:00 Known Koala Habitat in a Changing Climate 2025 DCCEEW Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director Decision Support & Analysis, Environment Data and Analysis Branch, Environment Information Australia Canberra ACT 2601 AU http://www.environment.gov.au/ DCCEEW DCCEEW-Spatial Enablement Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Spatial Data Manager, Spatial Enablement geospatial@dcceew.gov.au GPO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601 AU DCCEEW-Spatial Enablement DCCEEW Koala Conservation Program | Biodiversity Programs Branch | Biodiversity Division Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director, National Koala Recovery Coordination DCCEEW Koala Conservation Program | Biodiversity Programs Branch | Biodiversity Division Canberra ACT 2601 AU <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV>The Known KHICC dataset is a 250m Australia-wide gridded raster dataset that represents the Commonwealth’s landscape view of where koalas or their habitat are likely to persist to 2070. Koala Habitat in a Changing Climate (KHICC) aim to highlight regions that should be prioritised for conservation and recovery of Koalas to increase the long-term persistence potential of the species. Version 1 of the Known KHICC:<UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI>identifies areas within 10km of a koala observation that also</LI><LI>has a predicted probability of containing a feed tree > 0.5 and</LI><LI>includes areas predicted to be suitable for koalas by 2070 climate modelling</LI><LI>Includes Queensland or NSW identified medium to high quality habitat that overlap areas that will be climate suitable to 2070 and within 10km of point observations.</LI></UL>All datasets were resampled to a 250m x 250m cell resolution.In 2022, the combined population of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory were up listed from ‘vulnerable’ to ‘endangered’ under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). This uplisting was based on the Threatened Species Scientific Committee’s assessment that the koala population had declined by more than 50% over three generations. Key threats to koalas are land use change and climate change, as well as habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, disease, and direct impacts from dogs and vehicle strike. Koalas have been identified as one of the 110 priority species under the Threatened Species Action Plan 2022 – 2032 <A href="https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/threatened-species-action-plan-2022-2032.pdf" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/threatened-species-action-plan-2022-2032.pdf</A>. A <A href="https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/koala-2022" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">National Recovery Plan</A> has been developed, supporting a coordinated and collaborative approach to koala conservation across the country. A <A href="https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/species/koalas/national-koala-recovery" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;">National Recovery Team</A> is also place to help deliver the actions and objectives of the Recovery Plan. The Commonwealth is investing $76 million under the Saving Koalas fund for on-ground actions to support the recovery and long-term conservation of koala and its habitat, and to support the delivery of the Recovery plan.</DIV></DIV></DIV> The Known KHICC dataset represents Koala Habitat in a Changing Climate (KHICC) where there are known occurrences of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and suitable high-quality habitat that is likely to persist to 2070, highlighting regions for prioritising conservation and recovery activities to support the long-term persistence potential of the species. Known _KHICC: Australia are copyright (c) Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water, 2025. DCCEEW Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director Decision Support & Analysis, Environment Data and Analysis Branch, Environment Information Australia Canberra ACT 2601 AU http://www.environment.gov.au/ DCCEEW Koala Conservation Program | Biodiversity Programs Branch | Biodiversity Division Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director, National Koala Recovery Coordination DCCEEW-Spatial Enablement Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Spatial Data Manager, Spatial Enablement GPO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601 AU geospatial@dcceew.gov.au Koala Known KHICC KHICC Koala Habitat in a Changing Climate Climate change Known Koala Areas Koala Known KHICC KHICC Koala Habitat in a Changing Climate Climate change Known Koala Areas <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV>This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license and there are no use limitations on this dataset, noting that the dataset is a point in time approximation of where koalas are likely to persist to 2070. This estimation is likely to change over time as new knowledge of climate change, feed tree locations, koala occurrences and habitat modelling become available.</DIV></DIV></DIV> Koala Habitat in a Changing climate is limited to areas where Koala are considered endangered (i.e. NSW and Qld) 142.562836 155.290697 -38.043417 -15.977733 Esri ArcGIS 13.3.0.52636 1 144.901823 153.636895 -16.466184 -37.455752 2025-07-31T00:00:00 DCCEEW Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director Decision Support & Analysis, Environment Data and Analysis Branch, Environment Information Australia Canberra ACT 2601 AU http://www.environment.gov.au/ DCCEEW 2026-07-31T00:00:00 DCCEEW Koala Conservation Program | Biodiversity Programs Branch | Biodiversity Division Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Director, National Koala Recovery Coordination File Geodatabase Feature Class ArcGIS Pro 3.3.0 EPSG 6.5(3.0.1) 0 Simple FALSE 0 TRUE FALSE Version 1 of the Known KHICC: • identifies areas within 10km of a koala observation or state-based habitat modelling that also • has a predicted probability of containing a feed tree > 0.5 and • includes areas predicted to be suitable for koalas by 2070 climate modelling • Includes Queensland or NSW identified medium to high quality habitat that overlap areas that will be climate suitable to 2070 and within 10km of point observations. All datasets were resampled to a 250m x 250m cell resolution and model run using a "importKoalaOccurranceFinalTool" python script linked to a ArcGIS Pro toolbox This version uses climate modelling, feed tree modelling, State habitat modelling and point observations as at May 2025 Data inputs and there sources are described in the following references. Briscoe, N.J., Kearney, M.R., Taylor, C.A. and Wintle, B.A. Unpacking the mechanisms captured by a correlative species distribution model to improve predictions of climate refugia. Global Change Biology (2016), doi: 10.1111/gcb.13280 CSIRO (2025). 2025 update of National Koala Population estimates. Progress Report. CSIRO DCCEEW 2022, Nature Positive Plan: better for the environment, better for business, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra, December. CC BY 4.0 GHD 2023, Review of Koala Habitat in a Changing Climate for regulatory decision support | Final Report Hoskins, A., CJ. Robinson, J. McEvoy, S. Macdonald, E. Vanderduys, A. McKeown, J. Murray, H. Murphy, J. Marano, M. Golchin, H. Lourie, A. Henderson, S. Behzadina, L. Lloyd-Jones, S. Foster (2022). The National Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) Monitoring Program. Final Report. CSIRO NSW Koala Habitat Suitability Model 5m v1.1 | Dataset | SEED Queensland Spatial Catalogue: Queensland Government (information.qld.gov.au) Koala mapping | Environment | Department of Environment, Science and Innovation, Queensland (desi.qld.gov.au)