List of Threatened Species Amendment (406) Instrument 2024

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

Dated 16-8-2024

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

1  Name

  This instrument is the List of Threatened Species Amendment (406) Instrument 2024.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 184 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Declaration under s178, s181, and s183 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - List of threatened species, List of threatened ecological communities and List of threatening processes

1  In the appropriate position under the heading “SPECIES THAT ARE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED”

Insert the following species:

1.                     Elusor macrurus

2  In the appropriate position under the heading “SPECIES THAT ARE ENDANGERED”

Insert each of the following species:

1.                     Saltuarius moritzi
2.                    Saltuarius wyberba
3.                     Rheodytes leukops

3  In the appropriate position under the heading “SPECIES THAT ARE ENDANGERED”

Omit the following species:

1.                     Elusor macrurus

4  In the appropriate position under the heading “SPECIES THAT ARE VULNERABLE”

Omit the following species:

1.                     Rheodytes leukops