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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 have decided to make the Threat abatement plan for predation, habit degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral pigs (Sus scrofa)(2017), for the purpose of reducing the effect of the key threatening process as specified below:

Key Threatening Process                                                                        Threat Abatement Plan
Predation, habit degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral pigs (Sus scrofa)  Department of the Environment and Energy (2017). Threat abatement plan for predation, habit degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral pigs (Sus scrofa)

The Threat abatement plan for predation, habit degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral pigs (Sus scrofa) (2017) will come into force on the day after the plan is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Dated this 19th day of February 2017.

JOSH FRYDENBERG

Minister for the Environment and Energy

Threat Abatement Plan
for
predation, habitat degradation,
competition and disease transmission by feral pigs (Sus scrofa) (2017)

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Cover photo: A mob of 89 feral pigs (some out of frame) on the Wildman River floodplain, Northern Territory, 2013. Photographer: B. Salau.

Contents

Introduction
1. Threat abatement plan for predation, habitat degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral pigs (Sus scrofa) (2017)
1.1. Description of the process and its impacts
1.2. Managing the threat
1.3 Threat abatement plans
1.4.