Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00160:reg:2008:p16
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00160
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2008 (pt 16/19)
Character Range: 64382–67545

Performance indicator    A criterion or measure that provides information on the extent to which a policy, program or initiative is achieving its outcomes.

Pest animal or species   Any non-human species of animal that causes trouble locally or over a wide area, to one or more persons, either by being a health hazard, a general nuisance, or by causing damage to agriculture, wild ecosystems or natural resources.

Threat abatement plan    Under the EPBC Act, a plan providing for the research, management, and any other actions necessary to reduce the impact of a listed key threatening process on affected species and ecological communities.

Threatened species       A species under the EPBC Act listed as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or conservation dependent.

Unmanaged goats          Goats that are free-living and not subject to livestock husbandry, but may be 'owned' in the sense that access for harvesting or control is determined by the owner or occupier of the land. This is in contrast to 'managed' goats, which are those held under some combination of animal husbandry methods (such as being owned, identified, restrained, managed for population structure and density, and receive welfare). Some goats, however, have one or more of the characteristics of managed goats, but in all other respects are indistinguishable from unmanaged animals with no husbandry.

Vulnerable               Under the EPBC Act, a native species is eligible to be included in the vulnerable category at a particular time if, at that time, (a) it is not critically endangered or endangered; and (b) it is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the medium-term future, as determined in accordance with the prescribed criteria.

Acronyms and abbreviations

BRS       Bureau of Rural Sciences

DEWHA     Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water,
          Heritage and the Arts

EPBC Act  the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity
          Conservation Act 1999

TAP       threat abatement plan

References

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  Beeton R, Buckley K, Jones G, Morgan D, Reichelt R and Trewin D (2006). Australia state of the environment 2006, independent report to the Australian Government Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra.

  CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) (1995). Model code of practice for the welfare of animals, feral livestock animals, destruction or capture, handling and marketing, Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resource Management Report No. 34.
  http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/22/pid/370.htm (Accessed December 2007)

  DEWHA (Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts) (2008). Background document for the threat abatement plan for competition and land degradation by unmanaged goats, DEWHA, Canberra.

  Dickman CR (1996). Overview