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Invitation to Comment on EPBC Act Nomination to List As a Key Threatening Process Invitation to comment on EPBC Act nomination to list as a key threatening process: ‘Biodiversity decline and habitat degradation in the arid and semi-arid Australian rangelands due to the proliferation, placement and management of artificial watering points’ and associated threat abatement plan decision. You are invited to provide your views about 1) whether the process: ‘Biodiversity decline and habitat degradation in the arid and semi-arid Australian rangelands due to the proliferation, placement and management of artificial watering points’ is eligible for inclusion in the list of key threatening processes and your reasons supporting those views; and 2) the feasibility, effectiveness and efficiency of having and implementing a threat abatement plan to abate the process. The views of experts, stakeholders and the general public are welcome. Responses can be provided by any interested person. Anyone may nominate a native species, ecological community or threatening process for listing under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The Threatened Species Scientific Committee (the Committee) undertakes assessments of key threatening processes to determine their eligibility for inclusion in the list of key threatening processes and provides its advice to the Australian Government Minister for the Environment. Your comment on this threatening process will assist the Committee with its assessment of whether the threatening process is eligible for inclusion in the EPBC Act list of key threatening process. The Department also requests your views on the feasibility, effectiveness of efficiency of having and implementing a threat abatement plan to abate the process. If listed, you views will assist the Minister in deciding whether to have a threat abatement plan. General background information about key threatening processes is at page 3 and general background information about threat abatement plans is at page 4. Draft information for your consideration of the eligibility of this threatening process for listing starts at page 6 and information associated with a threat abatement plan for this process is at page 18. To assist the Committee’s assessment, the Committee has identified a series of additional specific questions on which it also seeks your particular guidance at page 19. Responses to are to be provided in writing either by email to: [email protected] or by mail to: The Director Terrestrial Species Conservation Section Wildlife, Heritage and Marine Division Department of the Environment PO Box 787 Canberra ACT 2601 Responses are required to be submitted by 28 February 2014. 1 Contents of this information package Page Information about consultation and your comments 3 General background information about key threatening processes 3 General background information about threat abatement plans 4 Frequently asked questions 4 Draft information about the key threatening process: ‘Biodiversity decline and habitat degradation in the arid and semi-arid Australian rangelands due to the proliferation, placement and management of artificial watering points’ and its eligibility for listing 6 Draft information about an associated threat abatement plan for this process 18 Collective list of questions – your views 19 Referenced cited 20 2 Information about consultation and your comments In order to determine if a species, ecological community or threatening process is eligible for listing under the EPBC Act, a rigorous scientific assessment of its status is undertaken. These assessments are undertaken by the Threatened Species Scientific Committee (the Committee) to determine if an item is eligible for listing against a set of criteria. These are set out in the guidelines for nominating and assessing threatened species and ecological communities, and threatening processes and are available at: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/nominations.html. Responses to this consultation can be provided electronically or in hard copy to the contact addresses provided on Page 1. Responses will be provided in full to the Committee and then to the Australian Government Minister for the Environment. In providing comments, please provide references to published data where possible. Should the Committee use the information you provide in formulating its advice, the information will be attributed to you and referenced as ‘personal communication’ unless you provide references or otherwise attribute this information. The final advice by the Committee will be published on the department’s website following the decision by the Minister. Information provided through consultation may be subject to freedom of information legislation and court processes. It is also important to note that under the EPBC Act, the deliberations and recommendations of the Committee are confidential until the Minister has made a final decision on the nomination, unless otherwise determined by the Minister. General background information about key threatening processes A key threatening process is defined as a process that threatens or may threaten the survival, abundance or evolutionary development of a native species or ecological community. Listing key threatening processes under the EPBC Act provides official recognition that a process is a key threat to biodiversity at the national level. This system of identification and recognition of key threats raises awareness of how threats to biodiversity are operating across Australia and assists with prioritisation of threat abatement activities. A process may be listed as a key threatening process if it could: cause a native species or ecological community to become eligible for inclusion in a threatened list (other than the conservation dependent category); or cause an already listed threatened species or threatened ecological community to become more endangered; or adversely affect two or more listed threatened species or threatened ecological communities. Key threatening process and associated threat abatement plans provide an opportunity to deal with biodiversity decline at a landscape and multi-species level. The listing process for key threatening processes Public nominations to list key threatening processes under the EPBC Act are received annually by the department. Any person or organisation may nominate a threatening process for listing. The nominations are considered by an independent scientific committee, the Threatened Species Scientific Committee (the Committee). As part of the assessment process, the Committee consults with the public and stakeholders to obtain information and specific details on the process, as well as advice on what threat abatement actions might be appropriate. Information provided through the consultation process is considered by the Committee in its assessment. The Committee provides its advice on the assessment (together with comments received) to the Minister regarding the 3 eligibility of the key threatening process for listing and what threat abatement actions might be appropriate. The Minister decides to add, or not to add, the threatening process to the list of key threatening process under the EPBC Act. More information about key threatening processes is available on the department’s website at: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/ktp.html. General background information about threat abatement plans Within 90 days of listing a key threatening process, the Minister decides whether a threat abatement plan should be made or adopted. In making this decision the Minister considers whether implementing a threat abatement plan would be the most feasible, effective and efficient way to abate the process. Not all key threatening processes have threat abatement plans. Threat abatement plans establish a national framework to guide and coordinate Australia's response to EPBC Act listed key threatening processes by identifying the research, management, and any other actions necessary to reduce the impact of the listed key threatening process on native species and ecological communities. Implementing the plan should assist the long term survival in the wild of affected native species or ecological communities. Threat abatement plans may have accompanying background documents which provide information on the biology, distribution, impacts and current management practices relevant to the key threats. The Minister invites comment on the proposed threat abatement plan before making or adopting a threat abatement plan. Threat abatement plans are reviewed at least every five years. There are currently 14 approved threat abatement plans being implemented across Australia. More information about threat abatement plans is available on the department’s website at: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/tap.html. Frequently asked questions about key threatening processes and threat abatement plans: 1. Will listing a key threatening process interfere with state, regional or property management? Listing a key threatening process does not regulate or prevent actions undertaken by the states, territories or individual property managers Key threatening processes do not trigger the EPBC Act (key threatening processes are not matters of National Environmental Significance under the EPBC Act). 2. What are the consequences of listing a key threatening process? If the threatening process is listed, the Minister must ensure a threat abatement plan is in force for the key threatening process if he thinks that a
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