Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00636:body:0:p50
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00636
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 140396–143314

risks to the collections, staff, lessees and visitors
        increases in pests due to the potential for new introduced pests acclimatised to our changing climate.

What we are going to do

Policy
2.9.1       As parts of the ANBG landscape change in response to climate change in ways that are of concern, the Director of National Parks, in consultation with experts and stakeholders, will decide on further monitoring requirements and will implement protective, rehabilitative or adaptive measures where feasible and appropriate.

Actions
2.9.2       Review and update the ANBG Water Management Strategy to evaluate whether there are improvements in our water use that could increase efficiency.
2.9.3       Share climate change lessons learnt with other botanic gardens through existing and future collaborative opportunities e.g. Climate Change Alliance of Botanic Gardens, in collaboration with Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens initiatives and policies as they are developed.
2.9.4       Develop a working group with other botanic gardens to share information and knowledge about ex situ species management with changing climate.

2.10  Remnant vegetation and wildlife management

Background
The ANBG has a large area of native vegetation with its associated wealth of biodiversity and biological interactions. The ANBG is a wildlife habitat and performs an important role as a fauna refuge in Canberra's Central National Area. This role as a refuge is expected to increase because of the ANBG's permanent water sources, the habitats created through its cultivation and display of Australian flora, and the predicted effects of a changing climate on neighbouring lands. Maintaining a national cultivated garden in association with the resulting changes in wildlife activity is expected to present increasing challenges. Fauna that will require ongoing monitoring include kangaroos, wallabies, snakes, nuisance birds and invasive animals such as rabbits, cats, foxes and rats.
Under ss 354 and 354A of the EPBC Act, a person may not kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move a member of a native species except in accordance with a management plan. The EPBC Regulations also prohibit taking animals and plants into the ANBG and cultivating plants in the ANBG, except with the approval of the Director of National Parks.
Actions taken in accordance with a management plan in relation to members of species listed under Part 13 of the Act are exempt from prohibitions that would otherwise apply under the EPBC Act.

Under reg 12.10 of the EPBC Regulations scientific research may not be undertaken in the ANBG unless it is provided for by, and carried out in accordance with, a management plan in force for the ANBG, or is authorised by a permit or under certain other conditions (reg 12.06). Research that involves taking, keeping or moving native species, or is undertaken for commercial purposes, is