Amendment to the lists of threatened species, threatened ecological communities and key threatening processes under sections 178, 181 and 183 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (199) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Amendment to the lists of threatened species, threatened ecological communities and key threatening processes under sections 178, 181 and 183 of the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) (199)

I, JOSH FRYDENBERG, Minister for the Environment and Energy under section 184(1)(a) and 184(1)(c) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), amend the list referred to in section 178 of that Act by:

Including in the list in the Critically Endangered category:

Argynnis hyperbius inconstans

Grevillea bracteosa subsp. howatharra

Including in the list in the Vulnerable category:

Phascogale tapoatafa kimberleyensis

Transferring in the list from the Vulnerable category to the Endangered category:

Hypotaenidia sylvestris

................... Josh Frydenberg.......................................

Minister for the Environment and Energy

Dated ……………..4th August...………………….…………. 2017………