Actions for Objective 2: Understand the scale of marine plastic and microplastic impact on key species, ecological communities and locations Action Priority/timeframe Output Outcome Responsibility 2.01 Update the list of marine Medium priority—ongoing for An annual review of relevant Better understanding of the EPBC TAP team, Department of debris impacted EPBC Act-listed the life of the plan published literature, as well as Act-listed threatened species the Environment and Energy vertebrate species as scientific data from state- or Northern most in need of action and evidence is published Territory- based stranding, protection in relation to marine ingestion and entanglement debris datasets, to maintain an list of EPBC Act-listed threatened species for which the impact of marine debris is clearly demonstrated 2.02 Monitor relevant ecological High priority—ongoing for the life TAP team, Department of the An annual literature review to Better understanding of the EPBC research to determine if further of the plan Environment and Energy maintain an up-to-date list of Act threatened ecological EPBC Act-listed ecological EPBC Act-listed threatened communities most in need of communities are threatened by ecological communities for which action and protection in relation marine debris the impact of marine debris is to marine debris clearly demonstrated
Actions for Objective 2: Understand the scale of marine plastic and microplastic impact on key species, ecological communities and locations Action Priority/timeframe Output Outcome Responsibility 2.01 Update the list of marine debris impacted EPBC Act-listed vertebrate species as scientific evidence is published Medium priority—ongoing for the life of the plan An annual review of relevant published literature, as well as data from state- or Northern Territory- based stranding, ingestion and entanglement datasets, to maintain an list of EPBC Act-listed threatened species for which the impact of marine debris is clearly demonstrated Better understanding of the EPBC Act-listed threatened species most in need of action and protection in relation to marine debris TAP team, Department of the Environment and Energy 2.02 Monitor relevant ecological research to determine if further EPBC Act-listed ecological communities are threatened by marine debris High priority—ongoing for the life of the plan An annual literature review to maintain an up-to-date list of EPBC Act-listed threatened ecological communities for which the impact of marine debris is clearly demonstrated Better understanding of the EPBC Act threatened ecological communities most in need of action and protection in relation to marine debris TAP team, Department of the Environment and Energy
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