The Parks and Wildlife Service uses performance monitoring and reporting to measure evidence of management progress, achievements and challenges across Tasmania's National Parks and Reserves.
The adaptive management process is simple and flexible and can be scaled up or down in complexity to suit a broad range of management contexts and purposes. For a brief article describing the approach see "Is the management plan achieving its objectives?"
The Parks and Wildlife Service's performance monitoring and reporting approach builds on our experience in developing an adaptive management system for the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. The first structured evidence-based evaluation of management effectiveness, the State of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area 2004, has been acclaimed internationally as setting a new benchmark for informed, effective, and transparent management of protected areas.