EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Adoption of State or Territory Plans as Recovery Plans
(Issued under the Authority of the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts)
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act) places certain obligations on the Commonwealth to protect and conserve threatened species and ecological communities.
Subsection 269A(7) of the Act enables the Minister, by instrument in writing, to adopt as a recovery plan, a plan made by a State, a self-governing Territory or an agency of a State or self-governing Territory.
The purpose of this instrument is to adopt the following recovery plans (the adopted plans):
- Prepared by the Northern Territory:
1. Livistona mariae Central Australian Cabbage Palm recovery plan
2. Macrozamia macdonnellii MacDonnell Ranges Cycad recovery plan
3. Olearia macdonnellensis, Minuria tridens Minnie Daisy and Actinotus schwarzii Desert Flannel-flower recovery plan
- Prepared by Queensland:
- Melomys rubicola Bramble Cay Melomys recovery plan
- Turnix melanogaster Black-breasted Button-quail recovery plan
- Southern Macadamia Species (Macadamia integrifolia, M. jansenii, M. ternifolia, M. tetraphylla) recovery plan
(iii) Prepared by Western Australia:
- Acacia leptalea Chinocup Wattle recovery plan
- Acacia sciophanes Wundowlin Wattle recovery plan
- Beyeria lepidopetala Short-petalled Bayeria recovery plan
- Caladenia huegelii King Spider-orchid recovery plan
- Caladenia winfieldii Majestic Spider-orchid recovery plan
- Conospermum undulatum Waxy-leaved Smokebush recovery plan
- Conostylis rogeri Kulin Conostylis recovery plan
- Conostylis seorsiflora subsp. trichophylla Hairy Mat Conostylis recovery plan
- Marianthus mollis Hairy-fruited Billardiera recovery plan
The adopted plans provide for the research and management actions necessary to stop the decline of, and support the recovery of, the listed threatened species in order to maximise their chances of long-term survival in nature.
Before the Minister may adopt a recovery plan under subsection 269A(7) of the Act, subsection 277(1) of the Act provides that the Minister must be satisfied that an appropriate level of consultation has been undertaken in making the plan and that the plan meets the requirements of section 270 of the Act. In addition subsection 277(2) of the Act requires the Minister to obtain and consider advice from the Scientific Committee on the content of the plan.
The adopted plans have been assessed and comply with section 270 of the Act and regulation 7.11 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000. In addition, the adopted plans were placed on public exhibition and comments were invited from the public. All comments were taken into account in making the decision to adopt the recovery plans under the Act.
In accordance with subsection 277(2) of the Act, the advice of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee was also obtained on the content of the recovery plans.
The adopted plans are available from the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts website: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/recovery-list-scientific.html
or from the Community Information Unit, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, GPO Box 787, Canberra ACT 2601 or by phoning on 1800 803 772.
The instrument adopting the recovery plans is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.
The instrument commenced on the day after it was registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.