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listing. An estimated 49 per cent of the rare, poorly known or data-deficient flora of south-west Western Australia are susceptible to P. cinnamomi (Shearer et al., 2004), and their conservation status is likely to change significantly over time.

           Appendices A, B and C of this Plan provide details of EPBC-listed threatened species and ecological communities under threat from Phytophthora dieback.

           Through destruction of vegetation, Phytophthora dieback can also affect other matters of national environmental significance, including:
•   world heritage areas
•   national heritage places
•   Commonwealth heritage on Commonwealth lands
•   Ramsar wetlands.

         Phytophthora dieback has an impact on the following world heritage areas:
•       Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area in North Queensland. There are more than 200 patches infected with P. cinnamomi, mostly in wet notophyll vine forests above 750 metres on acid volcanic soils. These forests comprise 14 per cent of the area
•       Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
           P. cinnamomi is widespread across the region
•       Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. P. cinnamomi has been detected at various sites, including the endangered Wollemi Pine site
•       Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. P. cinnamomi is having a widespread and severe impact on Buttongrass moorland vegetation
•       Lord Howe Island Group World Heritage Area. P. cinnamomi occurs on one lease in the southern part of the island's settlement area and could potentially spread to the Lord Howe Island Permanent Park Preserve on footwear or vehicles (DECCW, 2010).

         Phytophthora dieback is a known threat to the following national heritage places:
•       Stirling Range National Park, Porongurup National Park and Fitzgerald River National Park in south-west Western Australia, home to diverse plant communities of great richness and endemicity.3 The Fitzgerald River National Park sits within the Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve—a site recognised internationally under UNESCO's4 Man and the Biosphere Program. P. cinnamomi is widespread in the Stirling Range and the number of infestations in the Fitzgerald have increased in recent years
•       Lesueur National Park on the Coral Coast of Western Australia
•       Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) in Victoria, where P. cinnamomi has been recorded at many sites and longer term studies have shown wide-scale changes in their floristic composition
•       Anglesea Heath, Great Otway National Park in Victoria, in the national heritage listed Great Ocean Road and Scenic Environs, where long-term studies (1988–2015) have shown significant changes in the floristic and structural composition of impacted sites and significant impacts on fauna abundance and habitats
•       Recherche Bay (North East Peninsula) Area, Tasmania, where the pathogen has been isolated from eastern Buttongrass moorland
•       Lavinia Wetland on the north-east coast of King Island, Tasmania (PWS, 2000); the Lake Warden