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habitat (Reddell pers. comm.).

A.3 Conservation Status

Current listing:

Listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) as Critically Endangered on 23 July 2002.

This listing decision was partly based on the species being known from a single location with limited extent and area. Although there are reports of new populations, the limited available information indicates continued eligibility for listing: the number of known individuals is less than 300; the distribution remains very restricted (including extent of occurrence, area of occupancy and extent of habitat); and the distribution is presumed vulnerable to stochastic disturbance events, as two of the four new locations are outside the national park.

In addition a decline could be inferred from the inability to relocate vaguely defined points for early collections (there are no data to indicate the rate of any decline). Alternatively, it may be speculated that low population numbers reflect a recently evolved species (likely to be a variant of Asplenium polyodon) that has adapted to a relatively specialised habitat, with potential over time to extend its range. However, certainty would require more research. In the absence of such certainty, the precautionary principle requires recovery actions to be based on a possible decline and a 'no-regrets' policy.

A.4 Meeting objects of the EPBC Act

The EPBC Act requires that recovery plans specifically address the objects of that Act:
  a)      to provide for the protection of the environment, especially those aspects of the environment that are matters of national environmental significance; and
  b)      to promote ecologically sustainable development through the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of natural resources; and
  c)      to promote the conservation of biodiversity; and
  d)      to promote a co-operative approach to the protection and management of the environment involving governments, the community, land-holders and indigenous peoples; and
  e)      to assist in the co-operative implementation of Australia's international environmental responsibilities; and
  f)       to recognise the role of indigenous people in the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of Australia's biodiversity; and

  g)      to promote the use of indigenous peoples' knowledge of biodiversity with the involvement of, and in cooperation with, the owners of the knowledge.

The Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC) considers that objects a), b), and c) are inherently addressed by virtue of the purpose of a recovery plan.  The remaining objects are addressed specifically below.

A.4.1 International Obligations

Asplenium listeri is not listed under any international agreement specified in the EPBC Act.
The implementation of Australia's international obligations is not affected by this plan.
Asplenium listeri is not included in the list of species under CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) that had effect from 11 January 2002.

A.4.2 Affected