Grading statements — Long-term outlook
The values are likely to remain healthy and resilient for the foreseeable future with strong recovery at damaged locations. Additional management intervention is not required to maintain the values.
With only minor additional management intervention, the values are likely to remain generally healthy and resilient for the foreseeable future, with only some values showing signs of significant deterioration.
Without significant additional management intervention, some of the values will deteriorate in the next 25 years, and only a few values are likely to be healthy and resilient in the longer term.
Without urgent and effective additional management intervention, the values are likely to deteriorate rapidly with the loss of most values in the longer term.
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Borderline Indicates where a component or criterion is considered close to satisfying the adjacent grading statement.
Confidence
Adequate high-quality evidence and high level of consensus
Limited evidence or limited consensus
Inferred, very limited evidence
Many of the Region’s heritage values are closely tied to the condition of the ecosystem. The most serious risks to the Region’s heritage values are from climate change, land-based runoff, coastal development, and some aspects of direct use. Identification and monitoring of the broad range of Indigenous, historic, and other heritage values is not yet well established but is improving. Indigenous heritage values are compromised due to the lack of agency and access by First Nations people to manage their Country. Adopting and implementing co‑management principles and greater sharing of knowledge of heritage values among the Region’s managers, Traditional Owners and stakeholders are critical to ensuring recognition and continued protection of those values.