Unsuccessful key threatening process nominations
The following nominations for listing as a key threatening process were assessed by the Threatened Species Scientific Committee. The date that the Minister decided these nominations did not meet the requirements for listing is provided next to the item. The advice provided to the Minister by the Threatened Species Scientific Committee is linked to each unsuccessful nomination.
- Changes to plant-pollinator associations caused by bumblebees, Bombus spp. – 21 July 2003
- Cinnamomum camphora (Camphor Laurel) most toxic chemotypes – 7 July 2003
- Clearing and degradation due to sugar cane farming – Clearing and degradation of lowland forest, feather palm swamps, freshwater wetlands, grassland ecosystems, littoral rainforest and other ecosystems, along the eastern seaboard (coastal lowlands) bioregions of Queensland due to sugar cane farming and expansion – 9 March 2001
- Continued net loss of native hollow-bearing trees and coarse woody debris due to firewood harvesting practices. (Original nomination was for ‘Loss of hollow-bearing trees in native forests and woodlands due to ecologically unsustainable firewood harvesting practices’) – 17 November 2005
- Death or injury to marine species following capture in beach meshing (nets) and drumlines used in Shark Control Programs – 21 March 2005
- Introduction in Australian inland waters of native or non-native fish that are outside their natural geographic distribution – 11 November 2011
- Loss of hollow-bearing trees in native forests and woodlands due to ecologically unsustainable forestry practices – 9 March 2001
- Six key threatening processes of rivers and streams – 15 September 2001
- The alteration to the natural flow regimes of rivers and streams
- The alteration to the natural temperature regime of rivers and streams
- Increased sediment input into rivers and streams due to human activities
- The introduction of live fish to waters outside their natural range within a river catchment after 1770
- The removal of large woody debris from rivers and streams
- The prevention of passage of aquatic biota as a result of the presence of instream structures
- The introduction of marine pests into the Australian marine environment via shipping including the discharge of ballast water and/or hull fouling – 4 August 2003
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