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NATIONAL RECOVERY PLAN

FOR THE

CHRISTMAS ISLAND GOSHAWK

Accipiter fasciatus natalis

Richard Hill
Birds Australia

Prepared by Richard Hill, Birds Australia, for the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage.

Published by the Commonwealth of Australia.

Made under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: August 2004

ISBN  0 642 55009 3

© Commonwealth of Australia
This publication is copyright.  Apart from any use permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth.  Requests and inquiries regarding reproduction should be addressed to:
Assistant Secretary
Natural Resource Management Policy Branch
Department of the Environment and Heritage
GPO Box 787
CANBERRA ACT 2601

This plan should be cited as follows:
  Hill, R. 2004. National Recovery Plan for the Christmas Island Goshawk Accipiter fasciatus natalis. Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.

Disclaimer:
This recovery plan sets out the actions necessary to stop the decline of, and support the recovery of, the listed threatened species or ecological community.  The Australian Government is committed to acting in accordance with the plan and to implementing the plan as it applies to Commonwealth areas.

The plan has been developed with the involvement and cooperation of a broad range of stakeholders, but the making of this plan does not necessarily indicate the commitment of individual stakeholders to undertaking any specific actions.  The attainment of objectives and the provision of funds may be subject to budgetary and other constraints affecting the parties involved. Proposed actions may be subject to modification over the life of the plan due to changes in knowledge.

Copies available from: http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/recovery/list-common.html

Executive Summary
The Christmas Island Goshawk is currently listed as Endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). It is currently considered a subspecies of Accipiter fasciatus, but its taxonomy needs resolution. It is considered to be the rarest endemic bird on Christmas Island, where it occurs in all habitats from primary and marginal rainforests to suitable areas of secondary regrowth vegetation. The total population size is thought to be very small, perhaps as few as 100 adults, and is probably limited by the availability of suitable rainforest habitat. Crazy Ants pose an unknown but potentially critical threat to the survival of this bird. The recovery plan objective is to downgrade the Christmas Island Goshawk from Endangered to Conservation Dependent, primarily through successful implementation of the Invasive Ants on Christmas Island Action Plan and protection of habitat critical to the survival of the species from clearance. An assessment of goshawk population dynamics is the most essential requirement of this recovery plan, and community awareness and participation in the conservation of this endemic raptor are also important actions.

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