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Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Making of a Threat Abatement Plan – Section 270B

I, JOSH FRYDENBERG, Minister for the Environment and Energy, pursuant to section 270B of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, make the Threat abatement plan for competition and land degradation by rabbits (2016) for the purpose of reducing the effect of the key threatening process as specified below:
Key Threatening Process                      Threat Abatement Plan
Competition and land degradation by rabbits  Department of the Environment (2016). Threat abatement plan for competition and land degradation by rabbits

The Threat abatement plan for competition and land degradation by rabbits (2016) will come into force on the day after the plan is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Dated this 15 day of  December 2016

JOSH FRYDENBERG
Minister for the Environment and Energy

Threat abatement plan for competition and land degradation by rabbits

The Department acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures and to their elders both past and present.

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Contents
Introduction
Threat abatement plans
Review of the 2008 TAP
Involvement of stakeholders
Threat abatement plan for rabbits
The threat
Managing the threat
Objectives and actions
Objective 1 – Strategically manage rabbits at the landscape scale and suppress rabbit populations to densities below threshold levels in identified priority areas
Objective 2 – Improve knowledge and understanding of the impact of rabbits and their interactions with other species and ecological processes
Objective 3 – Improve