What is Environmental Monitoring?
Environmental monitoring consists of multiple procedures and operations that characterises and tracks the quality of the environment. This type of monitoring is performed before having environmental impact assessments or while there are human activities being carried out that are potentially harmful to the environment. All environmental monitoring is designed to gather the current status of the environment and all environment monitoring results will be examined and published.
Objectives
- To help us better understand the effects of human activity on the environment
- To limit the damage human activity has on the environment
- To evaluate the effectiveness of current control measures regarding to environmental hazards
- To comply with the regulations set by the Department of Environment