❓ Hon Giz Watson asks about species moving to higher threat categories under the Forest Management Plan 2004-2013. The Minister provides a list of species and explains the reasons for the changes, tabling relevant reports.
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Given that if any species in the three forest regions moves to a higher category of threat, the Forest Management Plan 2004-2013 requires the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) to investigate the cause and report to the Conservation Commission and to the Minister for the Environment, I ask -
(1) Which species have moved to a higher category of threat since the Forest Management Plan came into operation on 1 January 2004?
(2) For which species has DEC reported to the Conservation Commission and to you?
(3) Will you please table the report(s)?
(1) Which species have moved to a higher category of threat since the Forest Management Plan came into operation on 1 January 2004?
(2) For which species has DEC reported to the Conservation Commission and to you?
(3) Will you please table the report(s)?
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Answered
6 September 2011
Responded by
Minister for Mental Health representing the Minister for Environment
Response time
28 days
(1) The performance target for the relevant key performance indicator in the Forest Management Plan is "No species or ecological community will move to a higher category of threat as a result of management activities". The following south-west forest regions species have moved to a higher category of threat since the Forest Management Plan came into effect: flora -
Andersonia annelsii
,
Caladenia lodgeana
,
Cryptandra congesta
,
Diplolaena andrewsii,
Eremophila glabra
subsp
. chlorella
,
Goodenia arthrotricha
,
Grevillea corrugata, Grevillea fuscolutea
,
Laxmannia grandiflora
subsp.
brendae
,
Reedia spathacea
,
Stylidium semaphorum
,
Trithuria occidentalis
; fauna -
Atrichornis clamosus
(noisy scrub bird),
Bettongia penicillata
(woylie),
Botaurus poiciloptilus
(Australasian bittern),
Calyptorhynchus banksii naso
(red-tailed black cockatoo) and
Phascogale tapoatafa
sw subsp
.
(brush-tailed phascogale)
.
A change in conservation status may be due to a number of reasons including decline in populations in areas not covered by the Forest Management Plan, as a result of impacts not related to forest management, taxonomic review, or improvements in scientific knowledge.
(2) The decline in status for each of the species has been determined by DEC to not be attributable to management activities under the Forest Management Plan. Given questions raised in the Commission's
"Forest Management Plan 2004-2013 Mid-term audit of performance report"
of December 2008, DEC has provided advice to the Conservation Commission on the reasons for category changes for the brush-tailed phascogale, red-tailed black cockatoo and woylie, and to the Minister for Environment on the brush-tailed phascogale.
(3) [See table paper no] referring to DEC's advice to the Commission dated 27 January 2011 and the report on the brush-tailed phascogale provided to the Minister for Environment in March 2008.
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Andersonia annelsii
,
Caladenia lodgeana
,
Cryptandra congesta
,
Diplolaena andrewsii,
Eremophila glabra
subsp
. chlorella
,
Goodenia arthrotricha
,
Grevillea corrugata, Grevillea fuscolutea
,
Laxmannia grandiflora
subsp.
brendae
,
Reedia spathacea
,
Stylidium semaphorum
,
Trithuria occidentalis
; fauna -
Atrichornis clamosus
(noisy scrub bird),
Bettongia penicillata
(woylie),
Botaurus poiciloptilus
(Australasian bittern),
Calyptorhynchus banksii naso
(red-tailed black cockatoo) and
Phascogale tapoatafa
sw subsp
.
(brush-tailed phascogale)
.
A change in conservation status may be due to a number of reasons including decline in populations in areas not covered by the Forest Management Plan, as a result of impacts not related to forest management, taxonomic review, or improvements in scientific knowledge.
(2) The decline in status for each of the species has been determined by DEC to not be attributable to management activities under the Forest Management Plan. Given questions raised in the Commission's
"Forest Management Plan 2004-2013 Mid-term audit of performance report"
of December 2008, DEC has provided advice to the Conservation Commission on the reasons for category changes for the brush-tailed phascogale, red-tailed black cockatoo and woylie, and to the Minister for Environment on the brush-tailed phascogale.
(3) [See table paper no] referring to DEC's advice to the Commission dated 27 January 2011 and the report on the brush-tailed phascogale provided to the Minister for Environment in March 2008.
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