Threatened species and ecological communities publications
Listed below are publications that relate specifically to the threatened species and ecological communties activities of the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Hard copies of some of these publications may be available free of charge from the Community Information Unit.
Other biodiversity publications are available from the biodiversity publications page of this web site.
EPBC Act policy statements
- About EPBC Act policy statements
- 3.2 Grey-headed flying fox - 2003
- 3.3 Spectacled flying fox - 2003
- 3.4 Tiger quoll - 2004
- 3.4 Spot-tailed quoll - draft - 2009
- 3.5 White box - yellow box - Blakely's red gum grassy woodlands and derived native grasslands - 2006
- 3.6 Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) - 2006
- 3.7 Peppermint box (Eucalyptus odorata) grassy woodland of South Australia and iron-grass natural temperate grassland of South Australia - 2007
- 3.8 Natural temperate grassland of the Victorian volcanic plain - 2008
- 3.9 Littoral rainforest and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia - 2009
- 3.10 Western ringtail possum in the southern Swan coastal plain, WA - 2009
- 3.11 Spiny rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens subsp. spinescens) - draft - 2009
- 3.12 Golden sun moth - draft - 2009
- 3.13 Black-throated finch (southern) (Poephila cincta cincta) - draft - 2009
- 3.14 Growling grass frog - draft - 2009
- 3.15 Endangered southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) Wet Tropics Population - draft - July 2009
- 3.16 Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens - September 2009 (order printed copy)
- 3.17 Weeping Myall Woodlands - September 2009
- 3.18 Lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - October 2009 (order printed copy)
- 3.20 Significant impact guidelines for the vulnerable water mouse Xeromys myoides - draft - 2009
- 3.21 Significant impact guidelines for 36 migratory shorebird species - draft - November 2009
Books and reports
- Annual reports - Threatened Species Scientific Committee
- Back from the brink: Refining the threatened species recovery process - conference proceedings - 1996
- Declines and Disappearances of Australian Frogs - workshop proceedings - 1999
- Description of Ecological Communities: Arid Eucalypt Woodlands - October 2004
- National Threatened Frog Workshop - Abstracts - November 1997
- Recent Surveys of the Cocos Buff-banded Rail (Gallirallus philippensis andrewsi) - October 2005
- A survey of the terrestrial reptiles of Norfolk Island - March 2005 - September 2006
Plans
Recovery plans
- Draft recovery plans open for public comment
- Recovery plans made or adopted - Common name order | Scientific name order
- Recovery plans in preparation
- Background information for the Abbott's Booby (Papsasula abbotti) Recovery Plan - 2001
- Recovery planning - Compliance checklist for legislative and process requirements to be provided with recovery plans for terrestrial threatened species and ecological communities - 2008
Threat abatement plans
- Approved threat abatement plans
- Draft threat abatement plans open for public comment
- Threat Abatement Plan For Competition and Land Degradation by Rabbits - 2008
- Threat Abatement Plan For Competition and Land Degradation by Unmanaged Goats - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Infection of Amphibians with Chytrid Fungus Resulting in Chytridiomycosis - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan For Predation by Feral Cats - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan For Predation by the European Red Fox - 2008 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Predation, Habitat Degradation, Competition and Disease Transmission by Feral Pigs - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease affecting Endangered Psittacine Species - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Reduction in Impacts of Tramp Ants on Biodiversity in Australia and its Territories - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan for Reduction in Impacts of Tramp Ants on Biodiversity in Australia and its Territories: Background Document - 2006 (order printed copy)
- Threat Abatement Plan to Reduce the Impacts of Exotic Rodents on Biodiversity on Australian Offshore Islands of Less Than 100 000 ectares - 2009 (order printed copy)
Brochures and fact sheets
Nationally threatened ecological community fact sheets and guides
- Black Gum-South Esk Pine Forest (Tasmania) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Blue Gum High Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion (fact sheet) - August 2005 (order printed copy)
- Brigalow (Acacia harpophylla dominant and co-dominant) (Qld) - December 2001
- Farming and nationally protected lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - fact sheet - 2009
- Farming and nationally protected grasslands and woodlands of the Victorian volcanic plain - fact sheet - 2009
- Listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes - EPBC Act fact sheet
- Mabi Forest - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet
- Swamp Tea-tree (Melaleuca irbyana) Forest of South-east Queensland - April 2005
- Swamps of the Fleurieu Peninsula - February 2003 (order printed copy)
- Temperate Highland Peat Swamp on Sandstone) - 2005
- Turpentine-Ironbark Forest of the Sydney Basin Bioregion - fact sheet - September 2005 (order printed copy)
- Upland Wetlands of the New England Tablelands and the Monaro Plateau - November 2005 (order printed copy)
- White Box - Yellow Box - Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands (NSW) - May 2006
Nationally threatened species fact sheets
- Australian Government and Northern Territory Government Species Information Partnership - September 2006 (order printed copy)
- Australian Government-South Australian Government Species Information Partnership - February 2007 (order printed copy)
- Australian Government and Western Australian Government Species Information Partnership - September 2006 (order printed copy)
- Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) - August 2003
- Australian Painted Snipe (Rostratula australis) - September 2003
- Listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes - EPBC Act fact sheet
- Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii) - July 2003
- Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet
- Round Island Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - North Keeling Island - English Version - July 2003
- Round Island Petrel (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - Burung Petrel Pulu Round (Pterodroma arminjoniana) - Pulu Keeling - Cocos Malay Version - July 2003
- Saving the Orange-bellied Parrot - September 2006 (order printed copy)
Key Threatening Processes fact sheets
- Listing threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes - EPBC Act fact sheet - 2007
- Recovery action for threatened species and ecological communities - EPBC Act fact sheet - 2007
- Harmful Marine Debris - 2003
Threatened Species Day fact sheets
- Angle-stemmed myrtle (Austromyrtus gonoclada) (Qld) - 2002
- Aquatic root mat communities of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge caves (WA) - 2002
- Australian frogs - 2003
- Australian frogs - an overview
- Australian sea-lion (Neophoca cinerea)
- Bead glasswort (Halosarcia flabelliformis) (SA) - 2002
- Bilby (Macrotis lagotis) (NT/QLD/WA)
- Border heath (Epacris limbata) (Tas) - 2002
- Boronia viridiflora - 2006
- Brigalow Belt Forests in Queensland (Qld)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby - 2008
- Bulloke woodlands - 2008
- Bush stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius - 2005
- Carnaby's black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris)- 2004 (order printed copy)
- Carnaby's black-cockatoo - 2008
- Cumberland Plain Ecological Communities - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Cumberland Plain Woodland (NSW/ACT)
- Darwin Palm (Ptychosperma bleeseri) (NT) - 2003
- Declining Frogs In Australia
- Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) - 2005
- Eastern Lined Earless Dragon (Tympanocryptis lineata pinguicolla) (NSW/ACT)
- Extinction is forever: five ways you can help save threatened species
- False water rat (Xeromys myoides) (2002) (Qld) - 2002
- False water rat (Xeromys myoides) (2003) (Qld) - 2003
- Finke goby (Chlamydogobius japalpa) (NT) - 2003
- Flatback turtle (Natator depressus) - 2005
- Flatback turtle - 2008
- Fleay’s barred frog (Mixophyes fleayi) - 2006
- Frogs of Australia - 2004
- Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) (NT) - 2002
- Gouldian finch - 2008
- Grampians pincushion lily (Borya mirabilis) (Vic)
- Grampians pincushion lily (Borya mirabilis) (2002) (Vic) - 2002
- Grassy white box woodlands (Vic/NSW/Qld)
- Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) - 2006
- Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) - 2004 (order printed copy)
- Great desert skink (Egernia kintorei) (2002) (SA) - 2002
- Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) - 2005
- Green consumer guide to threatened species: 45 ways you can help - March 2000
- Green kids guide to threatened species: 9 ways you can help - 2000
- Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) - 2006
- Grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) - 2004
- Hindmarsh correa Correa calycina - 2005 (order printed copy)
- Julia Creek Dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) - 2005
- Large-club spider-orchid (Caladenia macroclavia syn. Arachnorchis macroclavia) - 2004
- Lord Howe Island Phasmid (Dryococelus australis) (NSW) - 2002
- MacDonnell Ranges cycad (Macrozamia macdonnellii) (NT) - 2002
- Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) - 2005
- Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) - 2006
- McCutcheon's grevillea (Grevillea maccutcheonii) (WA)
- Miena cider gum Eucalyptus gunnii ssp. divaricata - 2006
- Monaro golden daisy (Rutidosis leiolepis) (NSW/ACT)
- Mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) (Vic) - 2002
- Mountain pygmy-possum (Burramys parvus) - 2005
- Mount lofty ranges southern emu-wren (Stipiturus malachurus intermedius) (SA) - 2003
- Nationally threatened birds of the Murray-Darling Basin
- Nationally threatened birds of the western wheatbelt
- Natural temperate grasslands (Southern Tablelands) (NSW)
- Nightcap oak (Eidothea sp. Nightcap Range) (NSW) - 2002
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat - 1998 (order printed copy)
- Northern hopping-mouse (Notomys aquilo) - 2007
- Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) - 2005
- Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
- Pilbara olive python (Liasis olivaceus barroni) (WA) - 2002
- Plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus) (Qld/Vic)
- Protecting Australia's Threatened Species (2002) - 2002
- Protecting Australia's Threatened Species (2003) - 2003
- Quolls of Australia (2003) - 2003
- Quolls of Australia (2004) (All States) - 2004
- Regent honeyeater (Xanthomyza phrygia) (NSW/Vic)
- Rose mallee (Eucalyptus rhodantha) (WA)
- Southern cassowary - 2004
- Southern corroboree frog (Pseudophryne corroboree) (ACT) - 2002
- Southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops) (WA/NT/SA)
- Spot-tailed quoll - 2008
- Spotted hand fish (Brachionichthys hirsutus) (Tas) - 2002
- Spotted tree frog (Litoria spenceri) (Vic) - 2003
- Superb parrot (Polytelis swainsonii) - 2005
- Tasmanian Forest Epacrids (Tas)
- Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster (Astacopsis gouldi) (Tas)
- Tasmania's Threatened Galaxiids (Tas) - 2003
- Threatened Australian Plants - 2004
- Threatened Orchids of the Mt Lofty and Southern Flinders Ranges (SA)
- Threatened Species and the Built Environment - 2004
- Threatened Species and Ecological Communities in Australia - 2004
- Tiger quoll, Spotted-tailed quoll or Spot-tailed quoll (Dasyurus maculatus) - 2004
- Toolibin lake - 2008
- Trout cod (Blue-nose or Rock cod) - 2003
- Tuggeranong Lignum (Muehlenbeckia tuggeranong) (ACT) - 2002
- Undoolya Wattle or Sickle-leaf Wattle (Acacia undoolyana) (NT)
- Watery Worlds - 2003
- Western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis) - 2007
- Western swamp tortoise (Pseudemydura umbrina) - 2003
- Yakka skink - 2008
Threatened Species Day Kit
- 2007 Threatened Species Day Kit (order printed copy)
Newsletters
- Communities for Communities - Threatened ecological communities newsletter
Posters and stickers (Only available within Australia, limit of 6)
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