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Commonwealth of Australia

   Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

   Subsection 269A(3)

   Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Recovery Plan—Rostratula australis) Instrument 2023

 We, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water (Commonwealth); Eva Lawler, Minister for the Environment (Northern Territory); Lily D'Ambrosio, Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change (State of Victoria); Reece Whitby, Minister for Environment (State of Western Australia); Meaghan Scanlon, Minister for the Environment and the Great Barrier Reef (State of Queensland) under section 269A(3) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth), jointly make a recovery plan titled:

     National Recovery Plan for the Australian Painted Snipe (Rostratula australis) Commonwealth of Australia 2022

 The recovery plan will come into force on the day after the plan is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Dated this 4th day of February 2023

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment and Water (Commonwealth)
Dated this 14th day of April 2021

Eva Lawler

Eva Lawler

Minister for the Environment (Northern Territory)

Dated this 31st day of December 2021

Lily D'Ambrosio

Lily D'Ambrosio

Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change (Victoria)

Dated this 13th day of June 2022

Meaghan Scanlon

Meaghan Scanlon

Minister for the Environment and Great Barrier Reef (Queensland)
Dated this 8 day of March 2022

Reece Whitby

Reece Whitby

Minister for Environment (Western Australia)

ontents

               Summary

             Australian Painted Snipe (Rostratula australis)

             Family: Rostratulidae

             Current status of taxon:
               •       Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth): Endangered

               •       Nature Conservation Act 1992 (Qld): Endangered

               •       Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (NSW): Endangered

               •       Nature Conservation Act 2014 (ACT): Endangered

               •       Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 (Vic): Critically Endangered

               •       National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 (SA): Vulnerable

               •       Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (WA): Endangered

               •       Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1976 (NT): Endangered

               •       IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Endangered

             Distribution and habitat:
             The Australian Painted Snipe has a historical distribution through most of Australia including some desert regions, but the Murray–Darling Basin, particularly the Riverina region of Victoria and New South Wales, appears to have been a stronghold for the species (Blakers et al. 1984). Smaller historical and/or present concentrations include the Channel Country in Queensland and South Australia, the Capricornia coast of central Queensland, and south-eastern South Australia (along with adjacent parts of Victoria) and increased observer effort has yielded an increase in records from Australia's savannah regions in recent decades (Leach et al. 1987; Lane and Rogers 2000; Rogers et al. 2005). Breeding records exist, many from the last two decades, across the range of occurrence including some from wetlands far beyond the Murray–Darling Basin (many records in coastal Queensland; some from the Lake Eyre Basin, Barkly Tableland and north-western