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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

3.2 TAXON SUMMARIES

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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The Director of National Parks and Wildlife
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601

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

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