Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - Threatened List
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Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - Threatened List June 2021 delwp.vic.gov.au OFFICIAL Photo credits Pink flannel flowers Actinotus forsythia – Marcia Riederer Helmeted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops cassidix – Marcia Riederer Millewa Skink Hemiergis millewae – Marcia Riederer Acknowledgment We acknowledge and respect Victorian Traditional Owners as the original custodians of Victoria's land and waters, their unique ability to care for Country and deep spiritual connection to it. We honour Elders past and present whose knowledge and wisdom has ensured the continuation of culture and traditional practices. We are committed to genuinely partner, and meaningfully engage, with Victoria's Traditional Owners and Aboriginal communities to support the protection of Country, the maintenance of spiritual and cultural practices and their broader aspirations in the 21st century and beyond. © The State of Victoria Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning 2021 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. You are free to re-use the work under that licence, on the condition that you credit the State of Victoria as author. The licence does not apply to any images, photographs or branding, including the Victorian Coat of Arms, the Victorian Government logo and the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) logo. 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Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 2 About the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act ................................................................................................... 2 Legislative provision ....................................................................................................................................... 2 Using this list ................................................................................................................................................... 2 Alignment of lists ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Vertebrate animals ............................................................................................................ 3 Mammals .......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Birds .................................................................................................................................................................. 4 Reptiles ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Amphibians ...................................................................................................................................................... 7 Fishes................................................................................................................................................................ 8 Invertebrate animals ......................................................................................................... 9 Crustaceans ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Insects............................................................................................................................................................. 10 Molluscs ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Platyhelminths (flatworms) ........................................................................................................................... 11 Annelids (annelid worms) ............................................................................................................................. 11 Cnidarians (sea anemones, jellyfish) .......................................................................................................... 11 Echinoderms (sea stars, sea cucumbers) .................................................................................................. 11 Vascular plants ............................................................................................................... 12 Non-vascular plants........................................................................................................ 43 Fungi and lichens ........................................................................................................... 44 Threatened communities of flora and fauna ................................................................ 44 *Under review Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - Threatened List - June 2021 1 Introduction About the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act The Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (the Act) is the primary piece of Victorian legislation that provides for the conservation of biodiversity and the management of associated potentially threatening processes. The listing of species and communities where they satisfy prescribed criteria in the Act and in the FFG Regulations has been a feature of the Act since its inception. Amendments to the Act in 2019 aligned the listing categories and criteria for species (but not communities) with those set out in the Common Assessment Method (CAM) intergovernmental agreement, to which Victoria is a party. The CAM categories and criteria match the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List categories and criteria with the addition of a “conservation dependent” category to be used solely for commercially- harvested fish. Prior to the amendments, the Act only provided a single category: “threatened”. As a result, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) has recently amended the listing of previously listed items to align with the new categories. Transitional provisions in the amended Act also allowed DELWP to specify more than 1300 species, previously included in the DELWP Advisory Lists, in the Threatened List for the first time on the basis of CAM-compliant assessments. For this reason, this document includes many more species than the previous Threatened List. Legislative provision This document meets the following statutory requirement: Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 Part 3, Division 1, section 10: (1) The Governor in Council, in accordance with this section, must establish and maintain a list — (a) of threatened taxa of flora and fauna that sets out — (i) the extinction risk of each listed taxon; and (ii) the category of threat that applies to each listed taxon; and (b) of threatened communities of flora or fauna. (2) The Governor in Council — (a) may specify in the list under subsection (1)(a) any taxon of flora or fauna that the Minister, under Division 3, recommends should be specified in the list; and (b) for each taxon specified in the list under subsection (1)(a), must set out, in accordance with the Minister's recommendation under Division 3— (i) the extinction risk of the taxon; and (ii) the category of threat that applies to the taxon. Using this list The FFG Threatened List is organised according to high-level groupings of taxa: • Vertebrate animals – mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes; • Invertebrate animals – crustaceans, insects, molluscs, platyhelminths (flatworms), annelids (annelid worms), cnidarians (sea anemones, jellyfish) and echinoderms (sea stars, sea cucumbers); • Vascular plants – flowering plants, gymnosperms (conifers), ferns and fern allies; • Non-vascular plants – mosses and liverworts; and • Fungi and lichens. The FFG Threatened List also includes a list of threatened communities. The lists of threatened taxa are arranged in tables such as the example below. Column 3 in the table (Extinction Risk) states whether the taxon is at risk in Australia or Victoria. Column 4 in the table (Category of Threat) states the category of threat as specified in the Act: extinct; extinct in the wild; critically endangered; endangered; vulnerable; or in the case of a taxon of fish, conservation dependent. For vertebrates, the lists are sorted by common name; for other taxa, the lists are sorted by scientific name. 2 Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 - Threatened List – June 2021 *Under review Example list Common Name Scientific Name Extinction Risk Category of Threat Giant Bullfrog Limnodynastes interioris Victoria Endangered Giant Burrowing Frog Heleioporus australiacus Victoria Critically Endangered Sloane's Froglet Crinia sloanei Australia Endangered Alignment of lists The Threatened List