Notice of Adoption of Recovery Plans - 17 January 2014

Department of the Environment

Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Notice under Section 269A

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RECOVERY PLANS

I, GEOFFREY RICHARDSON, Assistant Secretary, Protected Species and Communities Branch, delegate for the Minister for the Environment, have, under section 269A of the Act, adopted recovery plans for the following threatened species and ecological communities:

Prepared by New South Wales:

1.        Dasyornis brachypterus (eastern bristlebird)
2.        Weeping Myall – Coobah – Scrub Wilga Shrubland of the Hunter Valley ecological community

Prepared by South Australia:

1.        Acanthocladium dockeri (spiny everlasting, spiny daisy)
2.        Beyeria subtecta (Kangaroo Island turpentine bush), Caladenia ovata (Kangaroo Island spider-orchid), Cheiranthera volubilis (twining finger-flower), Leionema equestre (Kangaroo Island phebalium), Logania insularis (Kangaroo Island logania), Olearia microdisca (small-flowered daisy-bush), Pomaderris halmaturina subsp. halmaturina (Kangaroo Island pomaderris), Ptilotus beckerianus (ironstone mulla mulla), Pultenaea villifera var. glabrescens (yellow bush-pea, splendid bush-pea), Spyridium eriocephalum var. glabrisepalum (MacGillivray spyridium)
3.        Caladenia richardsiorum (Little Dip spider-orchid), Caladenia calcicola (limestone spider-orchid), Pterostylis tenuissima (swamp greenhood)
4.        Lachnagrostis limitanea (Spalding blown grass)
5.        Peppermint Box (Eucalyptus odorata) Grassy Woodland of South Australia
   (ecological community)

Prepared by Western Australia:

1.        Calyptorhynchus latirostris (Carnaby’s cockatoo)
2.        Petrogale lateralis hacketti (Recherche rock-wallaby), Petrogale lateralis lateralis (black-flanked rock-wallaby), Petrogale lateralis MacDonnell Ranges race (warru, black-footed rock-wallaby (MacDonnell Ranges race)), Petrogale lateralis West Kimberly race (black-footed rock-wallaby (West Kimberley race))
3.    Pseudemydura umbrina (western swamp tortoise)
4.    Setonix brachyurus (quokka)

These recovery plans came into force on 17 January 2014.

Copies of these plans are available from the Australian Government Department of the Environment web site at: http://www.environment.gov.au/topics/biodiversity/threatened-species-ecological-communities/recovery-plans or by contacting the Department’s Community Information Unit:

Email:   ciu@environment.gov.au

Mail:  Community Information Unit

  Department of the Environment

  GPO Box 787

  Canberra ACT 2601

Freecall:  1800 803 772