EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Instrument under section 184(1)
(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.
The purpose of this instrument is to amend the list of threatened species under the Act in accordance with s184(1) of the Act by:
deleting from the list in the vulnerable category:
- Psophodes nigrogularis oberon (Western Whipbird (Western Mallee))
- Daviesia dielsii (Diels’ Daviesia)
deleting from the list in the endangered category:
- Conostylis setigera subsp. dasys (Boscabel Conostylis)
including in the list in the vulnerable category:
- Calyptorhynchus banksii naso
- Egernia pulchra longicauda
including in the list in the endangered category:
- Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi
- Daviesia dielsii
- Eucalyptus recta
including in the list in the critically endangered category:
- Conostylis setigera subsp. dasys
- Darwinia sp. Muchea (B.J.Keighery 2458)
- Gastrolobium diabolophyllum
- Hemigenia ramosissima
- Hibbertia priceana
- Isopogon robustus
Consultation on the nominations to amend the list of threatened species under the Act to include these species was undertaken before the legislative instrument was made. The nominations were placed on public exhibition, and public comments were sought. Parties with relevant expertise were directly consulted regarding their views.
This instrument 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.