Comment on Listing Assessment
About the nomination and assessment
Each year on behalf of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water invites public nominations for items that merit listing as threatened under national environment law.
The “River Murray downstream of the Darling River, and associated aquatic and floodplain systems” (hereafter referred to as “River Murray—Darling to Sea”) was nominated for listing as a threatened ecological community and prioritised for assessment in 2023.
Proposed Conservation Status: Critically Endangered
Distribution: Murray-Darling Basin, New South Wales and South Australia
You are invited to provide your views on the assessment and draft Conservation Advice for the River Murray downstream of the Darling River, and associated aquatic and floodplain systems.
The ecological community is proposed for inclusion in the Critically Endangered category, on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) list of threatened ecological communities.
The Committee particularly seeks comments on whether the:
Any other relevant comments and information about the ecological community or draft Conservation Advice document is also invited.
The Committee welcomes the views of experts, land managers, First Nations peoples, other stakeholders and the general public on the draft Conservation Advice for the ecological community.
The public consultation period closes on 15 October 2024
You are welcome to forward this request to advise other relevant key people or groups in your networks about this opportunity for comment.
We would greatly appreciate your help to get input from other agencies and groups involved with biodiversity conservation, land management, primary industries and planning.
Questions to guide comments can be found within the draft Conservation Advice.
Please support your comments with information and data, preferably supported by published studies or observations. If some of that information is not published, would you be willing to be quoted as an expert or source (“personal communication”).
Responses are to be provided in writing via email:
EPBCNOM@dcceew.gov.au
or by mail to:
The Director
Ecological Communities section
Protected Species and Communities Branch
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
PO Box 3090
Canberra ACT 2601
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