Appendix B EPBC Act-listed threatened ecological communities adversely impacted by marine debris Community name Current status EPBC Act listing advice Recovery plan decision Listed as endangered Catchment disturbance Recovery plan not Posidonia australis and pollution. The required. While there is seagrass meadows of ecological community is no state recovery plan the impacted by increased across the full inputs from a range of distribution of the ecoregion pollutants associated ecological community (effective 07 May 2015) with catchment there are existing disturbance including catchment and estuary sediment, nutrients, management plans and metals, hydrocarbons, other planning industrial compounds documents relating to and litter to the the recovery of associated estuary ecological community. (Department of the Taking into account the Environment 2015). protection from EPBC Act listing, recovery and threat abatement priorities and actions specified in the conservation advice and the existing management and other plans, a recovery plan for the ecological community is not recommended at this time (Department of Subtropical and Listed as vulnerable Pollution and litter There the Environment is not 2015) a temperate coastal from stormwater or recovery plan for this saltmarsh dumping of waste ecological (Effective 10 August can smother coastal community 2013) saltmarsh plants and introduce contaminants such as heavy metals or organic chemicals (Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2013). 45 / Threat Abatement Plan
Appendix B EPBC Act-listed threatened ecological communities adversely impacted by marine debris Community name Current status EPBC Act listing advice Recovery plan decision Posidonia australis seagrass meadows of the ecoregion (effective 07 May 2015) Listed as endangered Catchment disturbance and pollution. The ecological community is impacted by increased inputs from a range of pollutants associated with catchment disturbance including sediment, nutrients, metals, hydrocarbons, industrial compounds and litter to the associated estuary (Department of the Environment 2015). Recovery plan not required. While there is no state recovery plan across the full distribution of the ecological community there are existing catchment and estuary management plans and other planning documents relating to the recovery of ecological community. Taking into account the protection from EPBC Act listing, recovery and threat abatement priorities and actions specified in the conservation advice and the existing management and other plans, a recovery plan for the ecological community is not recommended at this time (Department of the Environment 2015) Subtropical and temperate coastal saltmarsh (Effective 10 August 2013) Listed as vulnerable Pollution and litter from stormwater or dumping of waste can smother coastal saltmarsh plants and introduce contaminants such as heavy metals or organic chemicals (Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, 2013). There is not a recovery plan for this ecological community 45 / Threat Abatement Plan
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