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Flora and Fauna Guarantee
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The Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act aims to ensure that all the varieties of Victorian flora and fauna can survive, flourish and retain their potential for evolutionary development in the wild. Key objectives are to conserve communities of flora and fauna; to manage potentially threatening processes; to ensure that use of flora or fauna by humans is sustainable; and to ensure that genetic diversity is maintained. Under the Act, arms of government are required to provide community education, encourage co-operative management, assist individuals (notably landholders) with conservation, and encourage co-operative community programs.
Central to the operation of the act are three lists:
- The Excluded List contains containing native taxa which are not to be conserved because they constitute a serious threat to human welfare — organisims which cause disease in humans are examples.
- The Threatened List, contains taxa and communities which are threatened. Examples include the Spiny Rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens), the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata), and Grey Box - Buloke Grassy Woodland.
- The Processes List contains potentially threatening processes. Examples include the collection of native orchids, degradation of native riparian vegetation, and infection of amphibians with Chytrid Fungus.
Any person can nominate a taxa for listing on the Threatened List or the Processes List. The nomination is considered by an independant Scientific Advisory Committee, which then prepares a preliminary recommendation for public comment. After a minimum of 30 days, the Committee reconsiders the recommendation in the light of any further evidence presented, and makes a final recommendation to the Minister for Environment, who is then free to add or remove a listing by regulation. There are detailed formal grounds for listing laid down under the Act, but the key criterion is that a taxon or community is eligible to be listed "if it is in a demonstrable state of decline which is likely to result in extinction or if it is significantly prone to future threats which are likely to result in extinction" [1] (http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/nrenpa.nsf/FID/-9D0EC4FED51582C2CA256DD00001158F?OpenDocument).
See also:
- Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act (http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenpa.nsf/childdocs/-A59F5093F6D6511D4A2567D600824A61-730F433356FA4CE14A2567D600824A63-B4F254CBD292B50F4A256817002AFF40?open)
- Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act - Listed Species, Communities and Potentially Threatening Processes (http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse/nrenpa.nsf/FID/-EADA0F1874AF9CF24A2567C1001020A3?OpenDocument)
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