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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 communities

    For 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

 

as indicated by:

 

 

 

 

(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

 

or

 

 

 

 

(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).