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The ''Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016'' (''BC Act'') is a state-based
Index to NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee: Index to Final Determinations – 1996 –2018.
Retrieved 1 September 2018 while the Scientific Committee has determined "Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub" to be a critically endangered ecological community.Scientific Committee. 201
Preliminary Determination: Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub.
Retrieved 1 September 2018. The main functions of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee include:
Text was copied from this source, which is available under
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
/ref> * assessing the risk of extinction of a species in Australia and deciding which species should be listed as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or extinct in NSW; * for species that are not listed as threatened species, deciding if there are populations of those species that should be listed as threatened in NSW; * assessing the risk of extinction of an ecological community in Australia and deciding which ecological communities should be listed as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or collapsed ecological communities; * deciding which key threats to native plants and animals should be declared key threatening processes under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (BC Act); and * reviewing and updating the lists of threatened species, populations and communities and key threatening processes in the schedules of the BC Act.
act of parliament
Acts of Parliament, sometimes referred to as primary legislation
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(NSW). Its long title is ''An Act relating to the conservation of biodiversity; and to repeal the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995, the Nature Conservation Trust Act 2001 and the animal and plant provisions of the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974''. It supersedes the '' Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995'', and commenced on 25 August 2017.
The purpose of the Act was to effect biodiversity
Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic ('' genetic variability''), species ('' species diversity''), and ecosystem ('' ecosystem diversity' ...
reform in New South Wales, in particular to provide better environmental outcomes and reduce burdensome regulations. The Act lists many more purposes under the rubric of "ecologically sustainable development" than the former Act, and specifically mentions "biodiversity conservation in the context of a changing climate".
and since mid-2019, the BC Act is administered by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.
Threatened Species Scientific Committee
Division 7 of Part 4 of the BC Act established the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, which can provide advice to declare species, populations, and ecological communities as endangered. Under the ''Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016'', the Scientific Committee has declared various threatened species including the alpine she-oak skink (''Cyclodomorphus praealtus
The alpine she-oak slender bluetongue or alpine she-oak skink (''Cyclodomorphus praealtus'') is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to the Australian Alps
The Australian Alps is a mountain range in southea ...
'') and the alpine tree frog (''Litoria verreauxii
The whistling tree frog (''Litoria verreauxii''), or Verreaux's tree frog, is a species of frog found in Australia. It has been divided into two subspecies, the nominate Verreaux's tree frog (''L. v. verreauxii'') and the Verreaux's alpine tr ...
alpina''),Scientific Committee. 2016Index to NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee: Index to Final Determinations – 1996 –2018.
Retrieved 1 September 2018 while the Scientific Committee has determined "Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub" to be a critically endangered ecological community.Scientific Committee. 201
Preliminary Determination: Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub.
Retrieved 1 September 2018. The main functions of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee include:
Text was copied from this source, which is available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
/ref> * assessing the risk of extinction of a species in Australia and deciding which species should be listed as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or extinct in NSW; * for species that are not listed as threatened species, deciding if there are populations of those species that should be listed as threatened in NSW; * assessing the risk of extinction of an ecological community in Australia and deciding which ecological communities should be listed as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or collapsed ecological communities; * deciding which key threats to native plants and animals should be declared key threatening processes under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 (BC Act); and * reviewing and updating the lists of threatened species, populations and communities and key threatening processes in the schedules of the BC Act.
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External links
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