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Unsuccessful key threatening process nominations

The following nominations for listing as a key threatening process were assessed by the Threatened Species Scientific Committee. The Minister decided the nominations did not meet the requirements for listing. The advice provided to the Minister is linked to each unsuccessful nomination.

Unsuccessful key threatening process nominations as at 23 May 2006

• Continued net loss of native hollow-bearing trees and coarse woody debris due to firewood harvesting practices. (Original nomination was for ‘Loss of hollow-bearing trees in native forests and woodlands due to ecologically unsustainable firewood harvesting practices’)
• Death or injury to marine species following capture in beach meshing (nets) and drumlines used in Shark Control Programs
• Cinnamomum camphora (Camphor Laurel) most toxic chemotypes
• Clearing and degradation due to sugar cane farming - Clearing and degradation of lowland forest, feather palm swamps, freshwater wetlands, grassland ecosystems, littoral rainforest and other ecosystems, along the eastern seaboard (coastal lowlands) bioregions of Queensland due to sugar cane farming and expansion
• Loss of hollow-bearing trees in native forests and woodlands due to ecologically unsustainable forestry practices
• Six key threatening processes of rivers and streams
  • The alteration to the natural flow regimes of rivers and streams
  • The alteration to the natural temperature regime of rivers and streams
  • Increased sediment input into rivers and streams due to human activities
  • The introduction of live fish to waters outside their natural range within a river catchment after 1770
  • The removal of large woody debris from rivers and streams
  • The prevention of passage of aquatic biota as a result of the presence of instream structures
• Changes to plant-pollinator associations caused by bumblebees, Bombus spp.
• The introduction of marine pests into the Australian marine environment via shipping including the discharge of ballast water and/or hull fouling

For general information about threatened species and threatened ecological communities contact the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Community Information Unit:

Email ciu@environment.gov.au
Freecall 1800 803 772