Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281:clause:1ab_583
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01281
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1AB cl 583
Character Range: 1388546–1391486

583       Saving Native Species                                                                                                                                To provide funding for activities to protect and support the recovery of Australian plant and animal species, and places, including to:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) protect, rehabilitate and support the recovery of, and prevent the extinction of, threatened native species and their habitats, and threatened ecological communities; and
                                                                                                                                                               (b) protect the biodiversity of the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area and the Bowling Green Bay Ramsar internationally important wetland from invasive yellow crazy ants, including by providing support to the Wet Tropics Management Authority; and
                                                                                                                                                               (c) support coordination of recovery actions and monitoring of threatened species and their habitats, including by developing threat abatement spatial planning tools for land managers to protect threatened species on their land.
                                                                                                                                                               This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:
                                                                                                                                                               (a) to give effect to Australia's obligations under one or more of the following:
                                                                                                                                                               (i) the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, particularly Articles 4 and 5;
                                                                                                                                                               (ii) the Convention on Biological Diversity, particularly Articles 7, 8, 9 and 10;
                                                                                                                                                               (iii) the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, particularly Articles 3 and 4; or
                                                                                                                                                               (b) involving the granting of financial assistance to a State.