Plan to Protect Environmental Assets from Lantana - Weeds Australia

Plan to Protect Environmental Assets from Lantana
Acronyms and abbreviations
Agvet Act:Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994 (Commonwealth)
APVMA: Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
ARMCANZ: Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand
BMAD: Bell Miner Associated Dieback
CMA: Catchment Management Authorities (NRM regions in NSW)
CCP: Commonwealth Coastal Policy
DEEDI: Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (QLD), which includes Biosecurity Queensland
formally part of Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries.
DECCW: Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (NSW), formerly the Department of Environment and Climate
Change and the Department of Environment and Conservation
DERM: Department of Environment and Resource Management (QLD), formally the Environmental Protection Agency, which
includes Queensland Parks and Wildlife
DII: Department of Industry and Investment NSW formerly Department of Primary Industries
EEC: Endangered Ecological Community under the TSC Act (NSW)
Environmental assets: Native species, populations, regional ecosystems and ecological communities
EPBC Act: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Commonwealth)
High-priority control sites: Sites where lantana control is urgent and where control is likely to lead to the protection of high-priority
environmental assets, with no other restoration beyond control needed
High-priority environmental asset: Environmental assets that are under immediate threatfrom lantana and are highly likely to
increase in threatened status unless lantana management occurs within their distribution
KTP: Key Threatening Process listed under either the EPBC Act or TSC Act
Lantana: Lantana camara L.
MER Strategy: Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Strategy
NC Act: Nature Conservation Act 1992 (QLD)
NPWS: NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, now part of DECCW
NRM regions: Natural Resource Management regions. In New South Wales, they are known as CMAs. The core infestations of
lantana can be found across 12 NRM regions, seven in Queensland and five in New South Wales.
NSW: New South Wales
PAS: Priorities Action Statement under the TSC Act (NSW)
QLD: Queensland
RE: Regional Ecosystem (QLD) (see Sattler and Williams 1999)
SoE: State of the Environment Report (NSW)
TAP: Threat Abatement Plan
TSC Act: Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (NSW)
VM Act: Vegetation Management Act 1999 (QLD)
WINS: Weed Impact to Native Species (see Downey 2006)
WoNS: Weed of National Significance (see Thorp and Lynch 2000)
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