Climate adaptation benefits provide guidance to conservation practitioners on how to align their actions to avoid or minimise climate-related biodiversity loss. However, to achieve this some long-held principles need to be challenged. We cannot rely on strategies that seek to reconstruct or hold on to species and ecosystems in the places they were once found but are less suited to under future climate. Change must be accepted as inevitable, but we can influence the nature of that change and thereby conserve values, albeit within a dynamic setting.

This three band (RGB) GeoTif raster layer illustrates overlap across three native vegetation benefits: Conserve and manage good condition areas of important native vegetation into the future (red) Restore and revegetate degraded areas that can support important native vegetation into the future (blue) *Connect habitats to help native species adapt to climate change (green)

Collectively, these benefits combine the principles of representation, compositional similarity, connectivity, viability and ecosystem condition into a single spatial product.

Benefits were derived using all NARCliM 1.0 and 3C climate futures, topographically downscaled to 250m resolution. Each benefit was calculated separately using the biodiversity forecasting tool. Refer to the individual benefit products for detailed planning purposes.

Values in each band are scaled to between 0 (no benefit) and 255 (high benefit). Darker areas reflect lower benefit values and lighter areas reflect higher benefit values. Colours approach white where high benefit values overlap.

[Report section 4.1, Figure 25]