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Threatened species and ecological communities publications

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Threatened species strategy

Threatened Species Scientific Committee

Latest releases

  • Tasmanian Black Gum and Brookers Gum Forests and Woodlands: A Nationally Significant Ecological Community - 2020
  • Threatened Species Strategy - Year Four Report
  • Report to Office of the Threatened Species Commissioner: 3-year review of progress on priority bird and mammal species - 2019

Books and reports

  • Back from the brink: Refining the threatened species recovery process - conference proceedings - 1996
  • Declines and Disappearances of Australian Frogs - workshop proceedings - 1999
  • Description of Ecological Communities: Arid Eucalypt Woodlands - October 2004
  • Ecological communities: a way forward - 2004
  • Impacts of plastic debris on Australian marine wildlife - June 2009
  • National Threatened Frog Workshop - Abstracts - November 1997
  • Recent Surveys of the Cocos Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi) - October 2005
  • Research on the impact of marine debris on marine turtle survival and behaviour: North east Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia - April 2009
  • A stocktake of recovery activities for the Orange-bellied Parrot - 2020
  • A survey of the terrestrial reptiles of Norfolk Island - March 2005 - September 2006
  • Threatened Marine Ecological Communities Workshop Report - 2010
  • Threatened species strategy - 2015

Threatened species strategy

  • Threatened species strategy
  • Summary of the Threatened Species Strategy
  • Report to Office of the Threatened Species Commissioner: 3-year review of progress on priority bird and mammal species - 2019
  • Threatened Species Investments and Future Opportunities
  • Constraints to Threatened Plant Recovery in Commonwealth National Parks - 2016

Progress reports

  • Threatened Species Strategy - Year Five Report
  • Threatened Species Strategy - Year Four Report
  • Threatened Species Strategy - Year Three Report
  • Threatened Species Strategy - Year Two Report
  • Threatened Species Strategy - Year One Report

Fact sheets

  • Creating safe havens
  • Improving habitat
  • Intervening in emergencies
  • Tackling feral cats
  • Threatened Species Strategy Action Plan 2015-16 - 20 mammals by 2020
  • Threatened Species Strategy Action Plan 2015-16 - 20 birds by 2020
  • Improving the trajectories of 30 plants by 2020

Threatened Species Scientific Committee

  • 10-point Bushfire Response Plan - 2020
  • 10-point Bushfire Response Plan - One year review - 2021

Ecological Communities Workshops

  • Threatened Marine Ecological Communities Workshop - 2009
  • River Murray-Darling to Sea Technical Workshop - 2009
  • River Murray-Darling to Sea Ecological Community: Criteria/Condition Thresholds Workshop - 2010
  • National Threatened Ecological Communities Strategic Workshop - 2012

Plans

  • Action Plans and Conservation Overviews
    • The Action Plan for Australian Birds - 2000
    • The Action Plan for Australian Butterflies - 2003

Recovery plans

  • Draft recovery plans open for public comment
  • Recovery plans made or adopted
  • Background information for the Abbott's Booby (Papsasula abbotti) Recovery Plan - 2001
  • Background Paper, Population Status and Threats to Albatrosses and Giant Petrels Listed as Threatened under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - 2011
  • Recovery planning - Compliance checklist for legislative and process requirements to be provided with recovery plans for terrestrial threatened species and ecological communities - 2014

Species Expert Assessment Plan

  • Threatened Species Status Assessment Manual

Threat abatement plans

  • Approved threat abatement plans
  • Draft threat abatement plans open for public comment

Brochures and fact sheets

Threatened species project fact sheets

  • Booderee potoroos and bandicoots - 2014, updated 2016
  • Christmas Island feral cat eradication - 2014, updated 2016
  • Eastern barred bandicoot - Trialling the use of guardian dogs to ward off predators (VIC) - 2015
  • Grey nurse shark - A new understanding of a critically endangered population (QLD) - 2015
  • Kakadu national park threatened species projects - 2014, updated 2016
  • Kangaroo Island Mallee Woodland - Restoring a rare ecosystem (SA) - 2015
  • Mahogany glider - Connecting the dots (QLD) - 2015
  • Mallee emu-wren - Establishing insurance populations (VIC) - 2015
  • Norfolk Island rodent control expansion to protect green parrots - 2014, updated 2016
  • Protecting endangered Cocos buff-banded rails - 2014, updated 2016
  • Reviewing recovery plans for threatened plant species - 2014, updated 2016
  • Saving threatened plant species - 2014, updated 2016
  • Spotted handfish - Installing and assessing new artificial breeding habitat (TAS) - 2015
  • Southern bent-wing bat - Providing accurate population estimates and trends (VIC) - 2015
  • Southern corroboree frog - Building more disease-free enclosures at Kosciuszko National Park (NSW) - 2015
  • Temperate Saltmarsh - Protecting a threatened ecological community and creating habitat for birds (VIC) - 2015
  • Western ground parrot - Understanding the habits of a rare and secretive bird (WA) - 2015
  • Western quolls - Reintroducing the species to the Flinders Ranges (SA) - 2015

Nationally threatened ecological community fact sheets and guides

  • Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens - September 2009
  • Banksia Woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain: a nationally-protected ecological community - 2016
  • EPBC Referral Guidance - Banksia Woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain ecological community - 2019
  • Black Gum (Eucalyptus ovata) - South Esk Pine (Callitris oblonga) Forest (Tasmania) - 2004
  • Blue Gum High Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion - 2005
  • Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla dominant and co-dominant) information sheet - 2001
  • Broad leaf tea-tree woodlands and Landholders - June 2012
  • Central Hunter Valley eucalypt forest and woodland: a nationally protected ecological community - 2016
  • Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest - 2010
  • Farming and nationally protected Coolibah - Black Box Woodlands - 2011
  • Farming and nationally protected grasslands and woodlands of the Victorian volcanic plain - 2009
  • Farming and nationally protected Grey Box woodlands and grasslands - 2010
  • Farming and nationally protected lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - 2009
  • Farming and nationally protected Natural Grasslands of the Murray Valley Plains - 2012
  • Farming and nationally protected New England Peppermint (Eucalyptus nova-anglica) Grassy Woodlands - 2011
  • Giant Kelp Marine Forests of South East Australia - 2012
  • Gippsland Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Associated Native Grassland - 2010
  • Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of South-Eastern Australia - June 2012
  • Guide to the Eucalypt Woodlands of the Western Australian Wheatbelt - a critically endangered ecological community - 2016
  • Kangaroo Island Narrow-leaved Mallee (Eucalyptus cneorifolia) Woodland: a nationally-protected ecological community - 2014
  • Landholders & Upland Basalt Eucalypt Forests - 2012
  • Littoral rainforest and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia - 2009
  • Lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - October 2009
  • Lowland Rainforest and Landholders - January 2012
  • Mabi Forest Information Sheet - 2004
  • Monaro grasslands - 2019
  • Nationally Threatened Ecological Communities: Natural Grasslands on Basalt and Fine-textured Alluvial Plains of Northern New South Wales and Southern Queensland, and Natural Grasslands of the Queensland Central Highlands and the Northern Fitzroy Basin - 2012
  • Nationally Threatened Ecological Communities of the Victorian Volcanic Plain: Natural Temperate Grassland & Grassy Eucalypt Woodland - September 2011
  • Natural Temperate Grassland of the South Eastern Highlands: a nationally protected ecological community - 2016
  • Peppermint box (Eucalyptus odorata) grassy woodland of South Australia and iron-grass natural temperate grassland of South Australia - 2007
  • Posidonia australis Seagrass Meadows of the Manning-Hawkesbury Ecoregion: A Nationally Significant Ecological Community - 2018
  • Proteaceae Dominated Kwongkan Shrubland ecological community - 2014
  • Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet
  • Swamp Tea-tree (Melaleuca irbyana) Forest of South-east Queensland - 2005
  • Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula - 2003
  • Tasmanian Black Gum and Brookers Gum Forests and Woodlands: A Nationally Significant Ecological Community - 2020
  • Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone - 2005
  • The nationally protected Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Shrubland Complex - March 2012
  • The Southern Highlands Shale Forest and Woodland of the Sydney Basin Bioregion: A Nationally Significant Ecological Community - 2017
  • Tuart Woodlands and Forests of the Swan Coastal Plain: A Nationally Significant Ecological Community - 2019
  • EPBC Referral Guidance - Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala) Woodlands and Forests of the Swan Coastal Plain ecological community - 2019
  • Turpentine–Ironbark Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion - 2005
  • Upland wetlands of the New England Tablelands and the Monaro Plateau - 2005
  • Weeping Myall Woodlands - EPBC Act policy statement September 2009
  • Western Sydney Dry Rainforest and Moist Woodland on Shale: a nationally-protected ecological community - 2015
  • White box - yellow box - Blakely's red gum grassy woodlands and derived native grasslands - 2006

Nationally threatened species fact sheets and guides

  • Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) - August 2003
  • Australian Painted Snipe (Rostratula australis) - September 2003
  • EPBC Act Referral guideline for the endangered northern quoll Dasyurus hallucatus - 2016
  • Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii) - July 2003
  • Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet 2007
  • Round Island Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - North Keeling Island - English Version - July 2003
  • Round Island Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - Burung Petrel Pulu Round (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - Pulu Keeling - Cocos Malay Version - July 2003
  • Saving the Orange-bellied Parrot - September 2006

Threatened Species Day fact sheets

  • Angle-stemmed myrtle (Austromyrtus gonoclada) (Qld) - 2002
  • Aquatic root mat communities of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge caves (WA) - 2002
  • Australian frogs - 2003
  • Australian frogs - an overview
  • Australian sea-lion (Neophoca cinerea)
  • Bead glasswort (Halosarcia flabelliformis) (SA) - 2002
  • Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) (NT/QLD/WA)
  • Border heath (Epacris limbata) (Tas) - 2002
  • Boronia viridiflora - 2006
  • Brigalow Belt Forests in Queensland (Qld)
  • Brush-tailed rock-wallaby - 2008
  • Buloke woodlands - 2008
  • Bush stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius - 2005
  • Carnaby's black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris)- 2004
  • Carnaby's black-cockatoo - 2008
  • Cumberland Plain Ecological Communities - 2005
  • Cumberland Plain Woodland (NSW/ACT)
  • Darwin Palm (Ptychosperma bleeseri) (NT) - 2003
  • Declining Frogs In Australia
  • Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) - 2005
  • Eastern Lined Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis lineata pinguicolla) (NSW/ACT)
  • False water rat (Xeromys myoides) (2002) (Qld) - 2002
  • False water rat (Xeromys myoides) (2003) (Qld) - 2003
  • Finke goby (Chlamydogobius japalpa) (NT) - 2003
  • Flatback turtle (Natator depressus) - 2005
  • Flatback turtle - 2008
  • Fleay’s barred frog (Mixophyes fleayi) - 2006
  • Frogs of Australia - 2004
  • Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) (NT) - 2002
  • Gouldian finch - 2008
  • Grampians pincushion lily (Borya mirabilis) (Vic)
  • Grampians pincushion lily (Borya mirabilis) (2002) (Vic) - 2002
  • Grassy white box woodlands (Vic/NSW/Qld)
  • Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) - 2006
  • Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) (2002) (SA) - 2002
  • Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) - 2005
  • Green consumer guide to threatened species: 45 ways you can help - March 2000
  • Green kids guide to threatened species: 9 ways you can help - 2000
  • Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) - 2006
  • Grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) - 2004
  • Hindmarsh correa Correa calycina - 2005
  • Julia Creek Dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) - 2005
  • Large-club spider-orchid (Caladenia macroclavia syn. Arachnorchis macroclavia) - 2004
  • Lord Howe Island Phasmid (Dryococelus australis) (NSW) - 2002
  • MacDonnell Ranges cycad (Macrozamia macdonnellii) (NT) - 2002
  • Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) - 2005
  • Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) - 2006
  • McCutcheon's grevillea (Grevillea maccutcheonii) (WA)
  • Miena cider gum Eucalyptus gunnii ssp. divaricata - 2006
  • Monaro golden daisy (Rutidosis leiolepis) (NSW/ACT)
  • Mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) (Vic) - 2002
  • Mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) - 2005
  • Mount lofty ranges southern emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus intermedius) (SA) - 2003
  • Nationally threatened birds of the Murray-Darling Basin
  • Nationally threatened birds of the western wheatbelt
  • Natural temperate grasslands (Southern Tablelands) (NSW)
  • Nightcap oak (Eidothea sp. Nightcap Range) (NSW) - 2002
  • Northern hairy-nosed wombat - 1998
  • Northern hopping-mouse (Notomys aquilo) - 2007
  • Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) - 2005
  • Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
  • Pilbara olive python (Liasis olivaceus barroni) (WA) - 2002
  • Plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus) (Qld/Vic)
  • Protecting Australia's Threatened Species (2003) - 2003
  • Quolls of Australia (2003) - 2003
  • Quolls of Australia (2004) (All States) - 2004
  • Regent honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia) (NSW/Vic)
  • Rose mallee (Eucalyptus rhodantha) (WA)
  • Southern cassowary - 2004
  • Southern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) (ACT) - 2002
  • Southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops) (WA/NT/SA)
  • Spot-tailed quoll - 2008
  • Spotted hand fish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) (Tas) - 2002
  • Spotted tree frog (Litoria spenceri) (Vic) - 2003
  • Superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) - 2005
  • Tasmanian Forest Epacrids (Tas)
  • Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster (Astacopsis gouldi) (Tas)
  • Tasmania's Threatened Galaxiids (Tas) - 2003
  • Threatened Australian Plants - 2004
  • Threatened Orchids of the Mt Lofty and Southern Flinders Ranges (SA)
  • Threatened Species and the Built Environment - 2004
  • Threatened Species and Ecological Communities in Australia - 2004
  • Tiger quoll, Spotted-tailed quoll or Spot-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - 2004
  • Toolibin lake - 2008
  • Trout cod (Blue-nose or Rock cod) - 2003
  • Tuggeranong Lignum (Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong) (ACT) - 2002
  • Watery Worlds - 2003
  • Western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis) - 2007
  • Western swamp tortoise (Pseudemydura umbrina) - 2003
  • Yakka skink - 2008

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