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3. Conservation Status

Table 4 summarises the current conservation status of the recovery species under various national and international listings. Entries under the Commonwealth Endangered Species Act 1992, the ANZECC Endangered Flora Network list and the 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants (Walter and Gillet 1998) are listed at January 2000. Entries under ROTAP are as reported by Briggs and Leigh (1996). In addition, assessments of conservation status were made for four taxa (C. amoena, C. audasii, C. hastata and C. robinsonii) as a part of their recovery planning. All four taxa were considered to be critically endangered using the 1994 IUCN Red List Criteria (Backhouse et al. 1999a, 1999b, Berwick et al. 1999 and Hill et al. 1999).

The recommended conservation status (Table 4) is based on verification of species distribution and abundance information gathered during the preparation of the current plan and represents the most up-to-date conservation assessment available for these taxa. This assessment was made prior to the announcement of new conservation reserves under the Victorian Environment Conservation Council Box-Ironbark study (ECC, in prep.) and the West Victoria Regional Forest Agreement process. Further refinements will be made as more information is collected on population sizes and distribution (see Recovery Action 1.1) and as reserve design is finalised for the two regions referred to above.

Table 4: Conservation status of twelve threatened Caladenia taxa of Victoria and South Australia.

V: vulnerable

E: endangered

ROTAP code 2: range < 100km

ROTAP code 3: range > 100km

ROTAP code C: reserved

ROTAP code -: reserved population size not accurately known

ROTAP code i: < 1000 plants are known to occur within a conservation reserve

ROTAP code t: total known population reserved