Commonwealth of Australia

Inclusion of species in the list of threatened species under section 178 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

I, DAVID KEMP, Minister for the Environment and Heritage, pursuant to section 184(1) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby amend the list referred to in section 178 of that Act by:

deleting from the vulnerable category and including in the list in the critically endangered category

Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens (Plains Rice-flower, Spiny Rice-flower, Prickly Pimelea); and

including in the list in the endangered category

Epacris sp. aff. virgata ‘graniticola’ (Mt Cameron Heath)

Dated this…………24th…..day of ………April………….2003

David Kemp

Minister for the Environment and Heritage