The Ecological Health Performance Scorecards (Scorecards) program is a landscape-scale biodiversity monitoring program by NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service which measures various environmental indicators to show the health of our national parks.
Monitoring includes survey techniques targeting vertebrate groups, vegetation communities and threatened ecological communities, soil and waterway condition metrics, feral animals and weeds, and fire regimes. Monitoring takes place across the state’s national parks and data is combined with financial and management records.
This world-leading program will provide the best information on how national parks health is changing over time - whether it is improving, stable, or declining.
Ecological Health Performance Scorecards Q&A (PDF 162KB)
'Measuring ecological health, and linking this to our investment in management actions, is the key to delivering effective conservation for our national parks.'
– Atticus Fleming, Deputy Secretary NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service