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Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Section 285

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Wildlife Conservation Plan for Seabirds) Instrument 2022

I, Sussan Ley, Minister for the Environment, pursuant to section 285 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), hereby jointly make a wildlife conservation plan with the Western Australia Minister for Environment, the Hon Reece Whitby MLA, the South Australia Minister for Environment and Water, the Hon David Speirs MP, the Queensland Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef, the Hon Meaghan Scanlon MP and the New South Wales Minister for Energy and Environment, the Hon Matthew Kean MP, for the following 76 listed migratory and marine species, entitled "Wildlife Conservation Plan for Seabirds".

Listed migratory and marine species  Wildlife conservation plan

 Anous minutus                        Department of Agriculture, Water and the
 Anous stolidus                       Environment (2020) Wildlife Conservation Plan
 Aptenodytes patagonicus              for Seabirds. Commonwealth of Australia
 Ardenna carneipes
 Ardenna grisea
 Ardenna pacifica
 Ardenna tenuirostris
 Bulweria bulwerii
 Calonectris leucomelas
 Chlidonias hybridus
 Chlidonias leucopterus
 Daption capense
 Eudyptes chrysocome
 Eudyptes chrysolophus
 Eudyptula minor
 Fregata ariel
 Fregata minor
 Fregetta tropica
 Garrodia nereis
 Gelochelidon nilotica
 Gygis alba
 Haliaeetus leucogaster
 Haliastur indus
 Hydrobates matsudairae
 Hydrobates monorhis
 Hydroprogne caspia
 Larus dominicanus
 Larus novaehollandiae
 Larus pacificus
 Lugensa brevirostris
 Morus serrator
 Oceanites oceanicus
 Onychoprion anaethetus
 Pachyptila belcheri
 Pachyptila crassirostris
 Pachyptila desolata

 Pachyptila salvini
 Pachyptila turtur
 Pachyptila vittata
 Pandion haliaetus
 Pelagodroma marina
 Pelecanoides georgicus
 Pelecanoides urinatrix
 Pelecanus conspicillatus
 Phaethon lepturus
 Phaethon rubricauda
 Phalacrocorax fuscescens
 Procelsterna cerulea
 Pseudobulweria rostrata
 Pterodroma cervicalis
 Pterodroma inexpectata
 Pterodroma lessonii
 Pterodroma macroptera
 Pterodroma nigripennis
 Pterodroma solandri
 Puffinus assimilis
 Puffinus bulleri
 Puffinus gavia
 Puffinus huttoni
 Pygoscelis papua
 Stercorarius longicaudus
 Stercorarius maccormicki
 Stercorarius parasiticus
 Stercorarius pomarinus
 Sterna bengalensis
 Sterna dougallii
 Sterna fuscata
 Sterna hirundo
 Sterna paradisaea
 Sterna striata
 Sterna sumatrana
 Sternula albifrons
 Sula dactylatra
 Sula leucogaster
 Sula sula
 Thalasseus bergii

 The wildlife conservation plan specified in the above paragraph will come into force on the day after the plan is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

 Dated this 28th day of March 2022

 Sussan Ley

 Sussan Ley

 Minister for the Environment (Commonwealth)

Dated this 10 day of November 2021

Matthew Kean

Matthew Kean

Minister for Energy and Environment (New South Wales)

Dated this 25 day of May 2021

David Speirs

David Speirs

Minister for Environment and Water (South Australia)

Dated this 8 day of March 2022

Meaghan Scanlon

Meaghan Scanlon

Minister for the Environment and Great Barrier Reef (Queensland)

Dated this 2 of February 2022

Reece Whitby

Reece Whitby

Minister for Environment (Western Australia)

There are over 100 species of seabird that occur naturally or regularly visit Australia
during the course of their lifecycle. Australia's coastal and oceanic habitats, particularly
offshore islands and surrounding waters are critically important areas for