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NATIONAL RECOVERY PLAN FOR THE

BUFF BANDED RAIL (COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS)

Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi

Image R. Thorn

Prepared by Julian Reid and Brydie Hill, for the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage.
Published by the Department of the Environment and Heritage.
Made under the EPBC Act: November 2006

ISBN [0642 552266]

© 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

Note: 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 individual stakeholders have not necessarily committed to undertaking 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.

This plan should be cited as follows: Commonwealth of Australia. 2005. National Recovery Plan for the Buff-banded Rail (Cocos (Keeling) Islands) Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi. Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra.

Copies of the plan are available online at:
http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/recovery/list-common.html
or by mail from:
       Community Information Unit
       Department of the Environment and Heritage
       GPO Box 787
       Canberra  ACT   2601
       Ph: 1800 803 772

Summary

The Cocos Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi, CBBR) is classified as Endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, 1999 (EPBC Act). CBBR is a subspecies endemic to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CKI), an Australian External Territory in the Indian Ocean. Formerly distributed widely across the 27 islands in the group, its range and abundance contracted severely through the twentieth century, and it is now confined to North Keeling Island, the sole island comprising the Northern Atoll with 120ha of land. CBBR was recorded as being very abundant on all islands of the Southern Atoll in the 1900s, almost 80 years after human settlement. They were recorded from only three islands of the Southern Atoll by the 1940s and were suspected to only occur on one (West Island) in the 1980s. Eight species of seabirds that formerly bred in large numbers on the southern atoll no longer breed there, but persist and breed on North Keeling