Status Codes and Descriptions

Back on Track (BoT) species prioritisation framework is an initiative of the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (EHP) that prioritises Queensland's native species (marine, terrestrial and aquatic species of flora and fauna) to guide their conservation, management and recovery.

The framework is designed to prioritise all species, regardless of their current classification under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) or the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC). Species are prioritised using multiple criteria, to allow the identification of species that are under threat, and those which have the greatest chance of recovery. Back on Track also identifies threats to priority species and actions to address threats, and also encourages multi-species or landscape level approaches to conserve and recover species.

Based on the following paper: Marsh, H, Dennis, A, Hines, H, Kutt, A, McDonald, K, Weber, E, Williams, S & Winter, J 2007, 'Optimizing allocation of management resources for wildlife', Conservation Biology, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 387-99.