Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00006:reg:3:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00006
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 12/58)
Character Range: 34789–37825

on-going use and the passing on of knowledge through the generations.

 Through their cultural traditions, the South Coast (Yuin) Aboriginal people of the Dharawal-Dhurga language group and the Jerrinja community identify the Jervis Bay area as their Traditional Country. Booderee National Park and Booderee Botanic
 Gardens have been jointly managed by the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council and the Australian Government since 1995 in accordance with the EPBC Act.

 Southern population

 In Victoria, habitat for the extant Eastern Bristlebird population and potential reintroduction sites are known to be of cultural significance and interest to Traditional Owners and Aboriginal communities.

 Additionally, Nadgee NR is highly culturally significant, with numerous stone arrangements, burials and middens (G Moore pers. comm. 2010 cited in OEH 2012). The abundance of artefacts and middens within the Croajingolong Biosphere Reserve (including Nadgee NR) indicates a history of occupation by fairly large populations
 of Indigenous communities, who were probably concentrated around the inlets, estuaries and wetlands (UNESCO 2016).

    "The Eastern Bristlebird was well known by Aboriginal people on the Far South Coast of NSW in the past. This bird was the skin of a local group. When European settlers moved into the area and cleared the land for farming, both the bird and the people disappeared from
    the area" (G Moore pers. comm. 2010 cited in OEH 2012).

 This statement of significance is not intended to be comprehensive, applicable to,
 or speak for, all Indigenous Australians and it is acknowledged that Indigenous groups and individuals are the custodians of this knowledge.

2.7                  Relevant biology and ecology

2.7.1            Habitat requirements

 The habitat of the Eastern Bristlebird is defined by a similar structure of low, dense, ground or understorey vegetation (Lamb et al. 1993; Clarke & Bramwell 1998; Chapman 1999; Baker 2000), within a broad range of vegetation types with a variety of species compositions, including grassland, sedgeland, heathland, swampland, scrubland, grassy sclerophyll forest and woodland, and rainforest (e.g., Smith
 1977, 1987; Holmes 1989, 1998; Baker 1997, 2000; Chapman 1999; Miles 2004; Bramwell 2008; Baker 2009; Baker et al. 2012; Stone et al. 2018). Eastern Bristlebird habitat primarily occurs as coastal, subcoastal and coastal escarpment scrubland/ grassland/sedgeland and as open grassy forest on inland ranges (Blakers et al. 1984; Holmes 1989).

 Eastern Bristlebirds inhabit fire-prone habitats and the relationship between the species and fire has been well studied (e.g., Holmes 1989, 1998; Lamb et al. 1993; Baker 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003; Bramwell et al. 1992; Hartley & Kikkawa 1994; Clarke & Bramwell 1998; Bain & McPhee 2005; Bain et al. 2008; Lindenmayer et al. 2009;
 Stone et al. 2018). The response of Eastern Bristlebird populations to fire is highly variable and strongly context-dependent (Bradstock et al. 2005; Bain et al.