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The Action Plan for Australian Bats

Environment Australia, 1999
0 642 2546 363

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Contents

FOREWORD

SUMMARY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 History of the Action Plan

1.2 Aim of the Action Plan

1.3 Methods

1.4 Categories of threat

1.5 Disagreements about categories of threat

1.6 Recovery Outlines and Taxon Summaries

2. TAXONOMY AND SELECTION OF TAXA FOR THIS ACTION PLAN

2.1 Aim

2.2 Current status of bat taxonomy in Australia

2.3 Decision process for defining taxa

2.4 Taxonomic decisions

2.5 List of Australian bat taxa

3. RECOVERY OUTLINES AND TAXON SUMMARIES

3.1 RECOVERY OUTLINES

Lord Howe Long-eared Bat
Bare-rumped Sheathtail Bat
Troughton’s Sheathtail Bat
Greater Large-eared Horseshoe Bat
Semon’s Leaf-nosed Bat
Christmas Island Pipistrelle
Grey-headed Flying-fox
Pilbara Leaf-nosed Bat
Large-eared Pied Bat
Eastern Long-eared Bat

3.2 TAXON SUMMARIES

Spectacled Flying-fox
Bare-backed Fruit Bat
Ghost Bat
Coastal Sheathtail Bat
Little Pied Bat
Western False Pipistrelle
Golden-tipped Bat
Tube-nosed Insectivorous Bat
Southern Myotis
Central Long-eared Bat
Greater Broad-nosed Bat

4. THREATENING PROCESSES AND CONSERVATION PRIORITIES

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Methods

4.3 Overview of threatening processes for Australian threatened bat species

4.4 Overview of conservation priorities for Australian threatened bat species

4.5 Recommendations

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A - IUCN red list categories.

APPENDIX B - Workshop Participant List.

APPENDIX C - Summary of expenditure required to recover threatened TAXA.

APPENDIX D - Complete list and conservation status of Australian bat taxa, with IUCN Red List category allocated by this Action Plan.

Please Note: Under the EPBC Act new categories have been added for listed threatened species and ecological communities. Critically endangered, conservation dependant and extinct in the wild have been added to the previous categories of endangered, vulnerable and extinct for threatened species and critically endangered and vulnerable have been added to the previous category of endangered for ecological communities. Threatened Animal Species, Threatened Plant Species

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Cover photograph of Eastern Long-eared Bat (Nyctophilus timoriensis (south-eastern form)) by Barry Baker, Department of Environment and Heritage.

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