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Scientific Advisory Committee (Threatened Species)

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Committee Members (May 2010)

The establishment of the Scientific Advisory Committee (threatened species) is provided for under section 8 of the Threatened Species Protection Act 1995You are now leaving our site. DPIPWE is not responsible for the content of the web site to which you are going. The link does not constitute any form of endorsement. This legislation also sets out the functions of the Committee which are to advise the Minister and Secretary of the Department of Primary Industries and Water on:
  1. the listing and de-listing of taxa of flora and fauna
  2. threatening processes
  3. the criteria to be followed in the determination of critical habitats
  4. other matters relating to the conservation of threatened native flora and fauna
  5. the review and approval of listing statements.
All members are to have special knowledge and experience in the sciences of flora or fauna conservation or ecology. Members must collectively have expertise in the following categories:
  1. vertebrate fauna
  2. invertebrate fauna
  3. vascular flora
  4. non-vascular flora
  5. taxonomy
  6. marine ecology
  7. freshwater ecology
  8. terrestrial ecology
  9. population ecology.
The Committee may consult with members of the broader scientific community as it considers appropriate.

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Contact: Scientific Advisory Committee
Secretary of the Scientific Advisory Committee
Threatened Species Section
GPO Box 44
Hobart TAS 7001
Phone: 03 6233 8759
Fax: 03 6233 3477
Email: louise.jerrim@dpipwe.tas.gov.auGo to top of page




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