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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. |
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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. |
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Known _KHICC: Australia are copyright (c) Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water, 2025. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>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. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Version 1 of the Known KHICC:</SPAN></SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>identifies areas within 10km of a koala observation </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;"><SPAN>that also</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>has a predicted probability of containing a feed tree > 0.5 and</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>includes areas predicted to be suitable for koalas by 2070 climate modelling</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI><LI><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>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.</SPAN></SPAN></P></LI></UL><P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>All datasets were resampled to a 250m x 250m cell resolution.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>In 2022, the combined population of koalas (</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;"><SPAN>Phascolarctos cinereus) </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>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. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 11 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>Koalas have been identified as one of the 110 priority species under the Threatened Species Action Plan 2022 – 2032 </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/threatened-species-action-plan-2022-2032.pdf" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/threatened-species-action-plan-2022-2032.pdf</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN>. </SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN><SPAN>A </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/publications/recovery/koala-2022" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>National Recovery Plan</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN> has been developed, supporting a coordinated and collaborative approach to koala conservation across the country. A </SPAN></SPAN><A href="https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/biodiversity/threatened/species/koalas/national-koala-recovery" STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration:underline;"><SPAN>National Recovery Team</SPAN></SPAN></A><SPAN><SPAN> 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.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>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.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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