List of Threatened Species Amendment (397) Instrument 2023

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

Dated 18-12-2023

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water

1  Name

  This instrument is the List of Threatened Species Amendment (397) Instrument 2023.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

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

Insert each of the following species:

(a)                    Limosa lapponica baueri

(b)                   Limosa lapponica menzbieri

(c)                    Limosa limosa

(d)                   Tringa nebularia

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

Insert each of the following species:

(a)                    Arenaria interpres

(b)                   Calidris acuminata

(c)                    Calidris canutus

(d)                   Calidris tenuirostris

(e)                    Gallinago hardwickii

(f)                     Limnodromus semipalmatus

(g)                   Pluvialis squatarola

(h)                   Xenus cinereus

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

Omit each of the following species:

(a)                    Calidris tenuirostris

(b)                   Limosa lapponica menzbieri

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

Omit each of the following species:

(a)                    Calidris canutus

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

Omit each of the following species:

(a)                    Limosa lapponica baueri