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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 188

Amending list of key threatening processes

  (1)   The Minister must not add a threatening process to the list unless satisfied that it is eligible to be treated as a key threatening process.

  (2)   The Minister must not delete a threatening process from the list unless satisfied that it is no longer eligible to be treated as a key threatening process.

  (3)   A process is a threatening process if it threatens, or may threaten, the survival, abundance or evolutionary development of a native species or ecological community.

  (4)   A threatening process is eligible to be treated as a key threatening process if:

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

  (b)   it 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

  (c)   it adversely affects 2 or more listed threatened species (other than conservation dependent species) or 2 or more listed threatened ecological communities.



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