Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00346:reg:7:p11
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00346
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 7 (pt 11/23)
Character Range: 179025–182528

Environmental Offsets Policy (DSEWPAC 2012).
    * Strategic assessments: policy statement for EPBC Act referrals (DSEWPAC 2013)
    * Significant impacts guidelines 1.1 - Matters of National Environmental Significance (DEWHA 2013).
    * Significant impact guidelines for the critically endangered Spiny Rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens)–EPBC Act policy statement 3.11 (DEWHA 2009b)
    * Significant impact guidelines for the critically endangered Spiny Rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens)–Background Paper to EPBC Act Policy Statement 3.11 - Nationally Threatened Species and Ecological Communities (DEWHA 2009c)
    * Commonwealth Conservation Advice on Natural Grasslands of the Murray Valley Plains (TSSC 2012)
    * Conservation Advice Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens (Spiny Rice-flower) (TSSC 2016)
    * Threat abatement plan for competition and land degradation by rabbits (Department of the Environment and Energy 2016b)
Victoria government:
    * Spiny Rice-flower Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens: A nationally threatened species of the grassland community (DELWP 2005)
    * Flora and Fauna Guarantee Action Statement 132 (revised 2008)–Spiny Rice-flower Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens (DSE 2008)
    * Melbourne Strategic Assessment Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (2010)
    * Melbourne Strategic Assessment–Spiny Rice-flower prescription [Management plan] (DSE 2010)
    * Victorian Auditor General's Office report into Protecting Critically Endangered Grasslands (2020)
Protocols and other guidelines relevant to the recovery actions:
    * Spiny Rice-flower translocation protocol (Pimelea spinescens Recovery Team 2013)
    * Spiny Rice-flower long-term monitoring protocol (Pimelea spinescens Recovery Team 2014)
    * Spiny Rice-flower guidelines for monitoring (Pimelea spinescens Recovery Team 2015a)
    * Management in a fire control line for Pimelea spinescens (Pimelea spinescens Recovery Team 2015b)
    * Burning Pimelea spinescens (Pimelea spinescens Recovery Team 2017)
    * Spiny Rice-flower seed collection protocol (Pimelea spinescens Recovery Team 2018)
    * Guidelines for the translocation of threatened plants in Australia–third edition (Commander et al. 2018)
    * Plant germplasm conservation in Australia–third edition (Martyn Yenson et al. 2021)

7.6                 Ecological co-benefit
Spiny Rice-flower is a significant flagship species for the conservation of the Critically Endangered Natural Temperate Grassland and other TECs (Figure 10; Table 6). Temperate grasslands and grassy woodlands of the Victorian Volcanic Plain are identified as one of Australia's most threatened ecosystems where more than 99% and 95%, respectively, have been lost and the remaining pieces are in poor condition (Kirkpatrick et al. 1995; VAGO 2020). Protection of Spiny Rice-flower habitats on public land have contributed to the conservation of multiple TECs supporting the subspecies, i.e., the Endangered Buloke Woodlands of the Riverina and Murray-Darling Depression Bioregions (Cheal et al. 2011), the Critically Endangered Grassy Eucalypt Woodland of the Victorian Volcanic Plain (DEWHA 2009a, b, c); the Endangered Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of South-eastern Australia (DEWHA 2010); the Critically Endangered White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland (DECCW 2010); the Critically Endangered Natural Temperate Grassland