About research and monitoring
The best available science, traditional knowledge and monitoring informs how we protect and recover threatened species and mitigate threats.
Decisions are based on the best available evidence, which also improves our understanding of threatened species and guides policy development and management actions. We seek to use new technologies and take an adaptive management approach.
The department conducts applied research and monitors threatened species on public and private land. We do this to better understand species ecology, determine species trajectories, identify threats, assess management actions and develop new management solutions. This complements research undertaken by the Queensland Herbarium and Queensland Museum.
Given the diversity and geographic spread of threatened species throughout Queensland, we work in partnership with the research sector to promote innovation and fill knowledge gaps. Our research prospectus identifies priorities and opportunities for research organisations to collaborate with us. The focus is on expanding the evidence-base, which underpins the listing of priority threatened species, threatened species policies and improving recovery outcomes for threatened species.
We also collaborate and co-design programs with First Nations people to ensure traditional knowledge and practices and cultural conservation values are integrated into our planning, management, education and awareness activities.