ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION REGULATIONS 2000 - REG 7.02 Criteria for listing threatened ecological communities
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION REGULATIONS 2000 - REG 7.02
Criteria for listing threatened ecological communitiesFor section 182 of the Act, an ecological community is in the critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable category if it meets any of the criteria for the category mentioned in the following table:
Item | Criterion | Category | ||
Critically endangered | Endangered | Vulnerable | ||
1 | Its decline in geographic distribution is: | very severe | severe | substantial |
2 | Its geographic distribution is: | very restricted | restricted | limited |
| and the nature of its distribution makes it likely that the action of a threatening process could cause it to be lost in: | the immediate future | the near future | the medium - term future |
3 | For a population of a native species that is likely to play a major role in the community, there is a: | very severe decline | severe decline | substantial decline |
| to the extent that restoration of the community is not likely to be possible in: | the immediate future | the near future | the medium - term future |
4 | The reduction in its integrity across most of its geographic distribution is: | very severe | severe | substantial |
| as indicated by degradation of the community or its habitat, or disruption of important community processes, that is: | very severe | severe | substantial |
5 | Its rate of continuing detrimental change is: | very severe | severe | substantial |
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| (a) a rate of continuing decline in its geographic distribution, or a population of a native species that is believed to play a major role in the community, that is: | very severe | severe | serious |
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| (b) intensification, across most of its geographic distribution, in degradation, or disruption of important community processes, that is: | very severe | severe | serious |
6 | A quantitative analysis shows that its probability of extinction, or extreme degradation over all of its geographic distribution, is: | at least 50% in the immediate future | at least 20% in the near future | at least 10% in the medium - term future |
Note: The Scientific Committee is to advise the Minister on the
amendment and updating of the list of critically endangered, endangered or
vulnerable ecological communities--see Act, paragraph 503(b).