Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00161:reg:3:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018C00161
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 5/7)
Character Range: 63274–66866

communities.

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

            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

       1080 sodium fluoroacetate

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