Local Biodiversity Strategy: - Shire of Kalamunda

Table 4: Threatened Ecological Communities listed under the EPBC Act 1999 and endorsed
by the State Minister for Environment (Information provided by the Department of
Environment and Water Resources and the Department of Environment and Conservation)
Threatened Ecological Communities EPBC Act 1999 Status DEC Status
Corymbia calophylla - Kingia australis woodlands on Endangered
Critically endangered
heavy soils of the Swan Coastal Plain (DEC TEC -
SCP3a)
Shrublands and Woodlands of the eastern Swan Endangered
Critically endangered
Coastal Plain (DEC TEC - SCP3c)
Banksia attenuata woodland over species-rich
- Endangered
dense shrublands (DEC TEC SCP20a)
Southern Wet Shrublands, Swan Coastal Plain
Endangered
(DEC TEC – SCP02)
Priority Ecological Communities
DEC Status
Central Northern Darling Scarp Granite Shrubland
Communities
Priority 4(a)
These factors were therefore taken into consideration during the development of the
TEC target which is detailed in Box 3.
Box 3: Proposed target for Threatened Ecological Communities (Federal and State)
Retain and protect natural areas containing TECs and where there is
significant natural area remaining, protect buffers and the associated
vegetation that is contiguous with these communities. Where practicable,
enhance these natural areas to maintain and improve biodiversity values.
Further information regarding the EPBC Act 1999 can be found at
www.environment.gov.au/epbc/index.html.
8.1.2 Threatened Plants and Declared Rare Flora (DRF)
Threatened plants are plant species likely to become extinct or which are recognised
as being rare at a Federal or State level. These species will be protected and
managed in order to prevent extinctions and encourage recovery.
At a national level, the Shire is known to, or likely to, contain a number plant species
protected under the EPBC Act 1999. Those species known to occur in the Shire
correspond to species declared under the State’s Wildlife Conservation Act 1950. This
is likely to be due to the fact that before a species can be declared under this act it
must be adequately surveyed. DRF species were found and reported during
assessment of the Shire reserves undertaken in the 2005 and 2006 spring seasons.
This information is summarised in Table 5.
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