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Greater Bilby, Macrotis lagotis

Greater Bilby, Macrotis lagotis. A matter of national environmental significance Listed as Vulnerable under EPBC Act in 2000 Controlling Provision: Threatened Species and Ecological Communities Significant Impacts:

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Greater Bilby, Macrotis lagotis

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  1. Greater Bilby, Macrotis lagotis A matter of national environmental significance • Listed as Vulnerable under EPBC Act in 2000 • Controlling Provision: • Threatened Species and Ecological Communities • Significant Impacts: • if a person is proposing to take an action that will have, or is likely to have a significant impact, the action must be referred for a decision on whether assessment and approval is required under the EPBC Act. • The Greater Bilby is a key consideration in EPBC project assessments (Part 7 – 9) and strategic assessments (Part 10) in the Pilbara Bioregion.

  2. Documents supporting decision making National Recovery Plan • National Recovery Plan for the Greater Bilby - adopted in 2006 Threat Abatement Plans • Predation by the European Red Fox • Feral Cats • Competition and Land Degradation by Feral Rabbits Key Policy Statements and Guidelines • Significant Impact Guidelines 1.1 • Survey guidelines for Australia's threatened mammals. EPBC Act survey guidelines 6.5 • EPBC Act Environmental Offsets Policy, October 2012

  3. Review of recovery plan • Recovery Plan review completed • Considerable on-going effort and resources needed to complete priorities • Emphasis on centrally-coordinated database to maintain records of abundance and population trends

  4. Arid Species Workshop – Alice Springs 2012 • Issues: • Resourcing recovery actions, data coordination and recovery plan review and revision. • The need for a centralised database • A national recovery team. • Arid Zone recovery coordinator. • Develop outline for revised recovery plan (Peter Copley – SA). • Opportunities • Bilby high priority species • widely distributed and multi-jurisdictional • emblematic of many threats facing the arid zone (predators, exotic competitors, inappropriate fire regimes, vehicle mortality and fragmentation), • relatively well-studied and monitored in parts of species range.

  5. WA workshop outcomes • Understand the Greater Bilby across its range and any differences in the Pilbara. • Ongoing collaboration and agreement about a research plan for the species consistent with a revised recovery plan. • Have a strategy to guide offset requirements from EPBC CA decisions so that duplication and gaps are avoided.

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