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provides a broad framework for science, action and partnership to achieve Australia's long-term goal of reversing species declines and supporting species recovery.

           State government agencies have policies in place to manage Phytophthora infected sites and the spread of plant pathogens generally. For example, Western Australia's Forest Management Plan 2014–2023 (CCWA, 2013) details proposed operations and provides key performance indicators to track implementation of the Plan.

            4.      Glossary and abbreviations

Biodiversity                                       Variability among living organisms from all sources (including terrestrial, marine and other ecosystems and ecological complexes of which they are part), which includes diversity within species and between species and diversity of ecosystems (Beeton et al., 2006).
Biodiversity asset                                 A species, ecological community or vegetation landscape under threat from Phytophthora dieback.
Conservation dependent                             A native species is eligible to be included in the conservation dependent category of the EPBC Act at a particular time if at that time the species is the focus of a specific conservation program the cessation of which would result in the species becoming vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered.
Ecological community                               A group of native plants, animals and other organisms that naturally occur together and interact in a unique habitat.
EPBC Act                                           Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
                                                   (Commonwealth legislation).
Eradication                                        Application of measures to eliminate an invasive alien species from a defined area.
Hazard                                             A pathway or activity that links Phytophthora dieback locations to an uninfested susceptible area (including environmental hazards such as wet soil, soil type, slope, landform, climate).
Impact                                             The effect of Phytophthora on a plant, community, ecosystem, landscape, species composition or structure and function.
Key threatening process                            A threatening process listed under the EPBC Act which:

                                                     •    could cause a native species or an ecological community to become eligible for listing in any category, other than conservation dependent; or

                                                     •    could cause a listed threatened species or a listed threatened ecological community to become eligible to be listed in another category representing a higher degree of endangerment; or

                                                     •    adversely affects two or more listed threatened species (other than conservation dependent species) or two or more listed threatened ecological communities.
Matters of national environmental significance     The nine matters of national environmental significance protected under the EPBC Act are:

                                                     •    world heritage properties

                                                     •    national heritage places

                                                     •    wetlands of international importance (listed under the Ramsar Convention)

                                                     •    listed threatened species and ecological communities

                                                     •    migratory species protected under international agreements

                                                     •    Commonwealth marine areas

                                                     •    the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

                                                     •    nuclear actions (including uranium mines)

                                                     •    a water resource, in relation to coal seam gas development and large coal mining development (DEWHA, 2013).
Phytophthora dieback                               Plant disease caused by Phytophthora species.

Priority biodiversity assets       Matters of national environmental significance