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Recovery plans open for public comment

Draft recovery plans open for public comment

Name Comment period closes
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) 11 February 2023
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Great Desert Skink (Liopholis kintorei) 11 February 2023
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Spiny Rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens subspecies spinescens) 11 February 2023
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) 21 April 2023

About the public comment process

You are invited to comment on these draft recovery plans in accordance with the provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

At the end of a comment period the plans will be revised, taking into consideration any comments received. The Minister will consider the revised plans as well as the comments received when deciding to make or adopt the plans.

Providing comments

If you wish to comment on a draft recovery plan, please send your comments, quoting the title of the plan, to:

Email: recoveryplans@environment.gov.au

Postal address:
Protected Species and Communities Branch
Biodiversity Conservation Division
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
(Attention: recoveryplans@environment.gov.au)
GPO Box 3090
Canberra ACT 2601

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Your views are being sought by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and/or authors of recovery plans for the purpose of informing the Minister for the Environment and Water on the adoption or making of recovery plans under the EPBC Act.

Personal information that you provide will only be used for this purpose. Personal information may be disclosed to employees of Australian Government agencies, the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, the Minister, state and territory agencies and persons (including contractors) assisting the Minister for the purpose outlined above. Contents of your submission may be included in subsequent publications of recovery plans.

The Department will deal with any personal information you provide in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), including the Australian Privacy Principles, and in accordance with the Department’s Privacy Policy. The Department’s Privacy Policy contains information about how to access or correct your personal information and about how to make a complaint about a breach of the Australian Privacy Principles.

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Plans closed for public comment

Draft recovery plans closed for public comment
Name Comments closed
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Forty-spotted Pardalote (Pardalotus quadragintus) 23 December 2022
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Water Mouse (Xeromys myoides) 30 September 2022
Draft Golden-shouldered Parrot Recovery Plan 13 May 2022
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Black-breasted Button-quail 25 February 2022
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Eastern Bristlebird 17 December 2021
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Koala (combined populations of Qld, NSW and the ACT) 24 September 2021
Draft National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels (2021) 27 August 2021
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Mainland Eastern Barred Bandicoot (Perameles gunnii (Victorian subspecies)) 27 August 2021
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Superb Parrot 30 July 2021
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Painted Honeyeater 16 April 2021
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Mahogany Glider (Petaurus gracilis) 28 August 2020
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Sandhill Dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila) 17 April 2020
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Australian Painted Snipe 17 April 2020
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Australasian Bittern 17 April 2020
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Australian Fairy Tern 17 April 2020
Draft Wildlife Conservation Plan for Seabirds 17 April 2020
Draft Recovery Plan for the Greater Bilby 12 July 2019
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Swift Parrot 7 June 2019
Draft Macadamia Species Recovery Plan 2019-2024 7 June 2019
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Murray Hardyhead Craterocephalus fluviatilis 19 January 2018
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Central Rock-rat Zyzomys pedunculatus 8 September 2017
Draft Recovery Plan for Clay pans of the Swan Coastal Plain ecological community 1 September 2017
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Macquarie Perch (Macquaria australasica) 1 September 2017
Draft Recovery plan for the Boggomoss snail (Adclarkia dawsonensis)
(notification of release for public comment by the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection)
28 May 2017
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri) 26 May 2017
Draft National Recovery Plan for the brush-tailed rabbit-rat (Conilurus penicillatus) 26 May 2017
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Littoral Rainforest and Coastal Vine Thickets of Eastern Australia Ecological Community 26 May 2017
Draft National Recovery Plan for the White-throated Snapping Turtle (Elesya albagula) 26 May 2017
Draft Recovery Plan for Marine Turtles in Australia 13 January 2017
Draft Recovery Plan for the Giant Freshwater Lobster (Astacopsis gouldi) 8 August 2016
Draft national recovery plan for Leadbeater's possum 20 May 2016
Draft recovery plan for the Myrmecobius fasciatus (numbat) 5 February 2016
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus) 18 December 2015
Draft National Recovery Plan for the Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phyrgia) 18 December 2015
Draft recovery plan for Sawfish and River Sharks: (Pristis pristis, Pristis zijsron, Pristis clavata, Glyphis glyphis and Glyphis garricki) 29 April 2015
Draft Recovery Plan for Three Handfish Species 24 April 2015
Draft Recovery Plan for the Alpine Sphagnum Bogs and Associated Fens ecological community 3 December 2014

Information about previous recovery plans is available in the National Library of Australia's:
Australian Government Web Archive

More information

For a comprehensive understanding of the provisions relating to nomination and listing, you should refer directly to the:

  • Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
  • Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000
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