FLORA AND FAUNA GUARANTEE ACT 1988 - SECT 4 Objectives of this Act

FLORA AND FAUNA GUARANTEE ACT 1988 - SECT 4

The objectives of this Act are—

        (a)     to guarantee that all taxa of Victoria's flora and fauna, other than taxa specified in the Excluded List, can persist and improve in the wild and retain their capacity to adapt to environmental change; and

        (b)     to prevent taxa and communities of flora and fauna from becoming threatened and to recover threatened taxa and communities so their conservation status improves; and

        (c)     to protect, conserve, restore and enhance biodiversity, including—

              (i)     flora and fauna and their habitats; and

              (ii)     genetic diversity; and

              (iii)     ecological communities; and

              (iv)     ecological processes; and

        (d)     to identify and mitigate the impacts of potentially threatening processes to address the important underlying causes of biodiversity decline; and

        (e)     to ensure the use of biodiversity as a natural resource is ecologically sustainable; and

        (f)     to identify and conserve areas of Victoria in respect of which critical habitat determinations are made.

S. 4A inserted by No. 28/2019 s. 6.