Conservation Themes for Prioritising Nominations for Listing Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes for the Assessment Period Commencing 1 October 2010 (01/11/2009) (Cth)

Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (93)

Conservation Themes for Prioritising Nominations for Listing Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes for the Assessment Period Commencing 1 October 2010

Pursuant to section 194D of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, I, PETER ROBERT GARRETT, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, determine the following conservation themes be given priority in relation to the assessment period commencing 1 October 2010:

Terrestrial, estuarine and near-shore environments of Australia’s coasts; and

Species and ecological communities of heathlands and mallee woodlands.

Dated this 1st day of November 2009

Peter Robert Garrett

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Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts