Listing of species, subspecies and communities |
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 A Dibbler The Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 provides for taxa of native plants (flora) and native animals (fauna) to be specially protected because they are under identifiable threat of extinction. Such specially protected wildlife (fauna and flora) is considered to be "threatened". The department's Policy Statements Nos 9: Conservation of threatened flora in the wild and 33: Conservation of threatened fauna in the wild cover this area. Threatened wildlife listings are reviewed regularly and changes can be recommended by the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, which is chaired by the department's Director of Nature Conservation. The TSSC meets at least once a year to consider any nominations received since the previous meeting and the public is invited to submit nominations to add taxa to, or delete taxa from, the current Declared Rare Flora and Specially Protected Fauna lists. The TSSC reports to the Director General of the Department of Environment and Conservation and the Minister for the Environment. Ministerial approval is necessary before changes are given legal status in a notice in the Government Gazette. The National Parks and Nature Conservation Authority, established under the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984, also considers the advice of the TSSC and makes recommendations to the Minister on wildlife conservation policies. The department's Species and Communities Branch is custodian of databases providing distributional data on threatened taxa.
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Threatened ecological communitiesThere is currently no legislation covering the conservation of threatened ecological communities. However, an informal, non-statutory process, including advice from a scientific advisory committee, the establishment of the threatened ecological communities database, and steps for assigning ecological communities to categories of threat, is now in place.
Note: The application of terms used in the criteria including "very few", "few", "highly modified", "very modified", "small", "isolated", "imminent", "short term future", "extremely vulnerable", and "very vulnerable" will depend on individual cases and will be determined on the basis of expert opinion. |
Conserving Threatened Ecological Communities (brochure) (
