Adapting our conservation objectives: The case of the disappearing freshwater wetlands of the Timor Sea drainage basin — YRD
  1. Schedule
  2. Synopsis Session 11 - Planning for adaptation in natural resource management
  3. Adapting our conservation objectives: The case of the disappearing freshwater wetlands of the Timor Sea drainage basin

Adapting our conservation objectives: The case of the disappearing freshwater wetlands of the Timor Sea drainage basin (1168)

Evan Quartermain 1 , Stuart Blanch 2 , Gavan McFadzean 3 , Anna Boustead 2
  1. Humane Society International, Avalon, NSW, Australia
  2. Environment Centre NT, Darwin, NT, Australia
  3. The Wilderness Society, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The freshwater floodplains of the Timor Sea drainage basin are home to abundant and spectacular wildlife, including the popular tourist icons of Kakadu. Yet many of these low-lying floodplains are already experiencing the effects of saltwater intrusion from a range of impacts. We must make every effort to conserve important and iconic seasonal freshwater wetland refugia in this region, where sea level rise increasingly threatens to inundate this large, biodiverse, yet incredibly vulnerable ecosystem.
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