BIODIVERSITY: Finalised EPBC priority assessment list of threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes

The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts has released the finalised priority assessment list for the assessment period commencing 1 October 2008. The list contains the threatened species, ecological communities and key threatening processes nominated for inclusion under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, that will be assessed by the Threatened Species Scientific Committee during the period stated. The most recent list includes species such as the koala and ecological communities such as Western Sydney's Cumberland Plain Woodlands.