Annual reports

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts annual report 2008-09

Volume two
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2009
ISSN 1441-9335

Legislation annual reports 2008-09 (continued)

Operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (continued)

Appendix D - Key Threatening Processes and Threat Abatement Plans

Table 22: Listed key threatening processes
Key threatening process	Date of effect
Competition and land degradation by rabbits	16 Jul 2000
Competition and land degradation by unmanaged goats	16 Jul 2000
Dieback caused by the root-rot fungus (Phytophthora cinnamomi)	16 Jul 2000
Incidental catch (bycatch) of Sea Turtle during coastal otter-trawling operations within Australian waters north of 28 degrees South	04 Apr 2001
Incidental catch (or bycatch) of seabirds during oceanic longline fishing operations	16 Jul 2000
Infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis	23 Jul 2002
Injury and fatality to vertebrate marine life caused by ingestion of, or entanglement in, harmful marine debris	13 Aug 2003
Land clearance	04 Apr 2001
Loss of biodiversity and ecosystem integrity following invasion by the Yellow Crazy Ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.	12 Apr 2005
Loss of terrestrial climatic habitat caused by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases	04 Apr 2001
Predation by European red fox	16 Jul 2000
Predation by exotic rats on Australian offshore islands of less than 1000 km² (100,000 ha)	29 Mar 2006
Predation by feral cats	16 Jul 2000
Predation, Habitat Degradation, Competition and Disease Transmission by Feral Pigs	06 Aug 2001
Psittacine Circoviral (beak and feather) Disease affecting endangered psittacine species	04 Apr 2001
The biological effects, including lethal toxic ingestion, caused by Cane Toads (Bufo marinus)	12 Apr 2005
The reduction in the biodiversity of Australian native fauna and flora due to the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta (fire ant)	02 Apr 2003

Table 23: Approved threat abatement plans
Threat abatement plan	Approval date
Beak and feather disease affecting endangered psittacine species	2005
Competition and land degradation by unmanaged goats	2008
Competition and land degradation by rabbits	2008
Incidental catch (or by catch) of seabirds during longline fishing operations	2006
Infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis	2006
Predation by European red fox	2008
Predation by feral cats	2008
Predation, habitat degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral pigs	2005
Reduction in impacts of tramp ants on biodiversity in Australia and its territories	2006
Threat abatement plan for disease in natural ecosystems caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi	2009
Threat abatement plan for the impacts of marine debris on vertebrate marine life	2009
Threat abatement plan to reduce the impacts of exotic rodents on biodiversity on Australian offshore islands of less than 100 000 hectares	2009