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Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Making of a Threat Abatement Plan–Section 270B

I, JOSH FRYDENBERG, Minister for the Environment and Energy, pursuant to section 270B of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, make the Threat abatement plan for infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis (2016) for the purpose of reducing the effect of the key threatening process as specified below:

Key Threatening Process                                                    Threat Abatement Plan
Infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis  Department of the Environment and Energy (2016). Threat abatement plan for infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis

The Threat abatement plan for infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis (2016) will come into force on the day after the plan is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

Dated this  26th day of August 2016.

JOSH FRYDENBERG

Minister for the Environment and Energy

Threat abatement plan
 For infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis (2016)

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Contents

Introduction
Background – the previous threat abatement plan
This threat abatement plan
1. Threat abatement plan for infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis
1.1 Threat abatement plans and implementation
1.2 The pathogen – history and spread
1.3 Impacts of Chytrid
1.4. Managing the threat
1.5. Climate Change
2. Objectives and actions
Objective