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Managing and Monitoring Threats to Native Plants and Communities

Graphic symbol for leaf.The maintenance of Tasmania’s rich and unique plant biodiversity is dependant on maintaining the ecological processes that support our species, vegetation types and their distributions in Tasmania. Any significant changes to the environment, which reduces the chances of survival, can be considered a threatening process. Such threats to Tasmanian’s plant biodiversity come in many varied forms - from slow acting and widespread threats such as climate change and weed invasion through to fast acting and localised threats like minor earth works or firewood cutting. Threats may also be the result of direct human intervention such as from land clearing or as a result of indirect human intervention such as the incidental spread of plant pathogens on vehicles.

The Department addresses the management of threatening processes at a number of levels. Firstly, at the quarantine barrier where legislation and practical controls reduce the risk of new pests, weeds and diseases being introduced to the state. Should pests, weeds or diseases succeed in establishing in the state, DPIPWE has incursion response plans and processes in place.

Secondly, legislative controls, such as 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 management plans and environmental impact review processes control human actions that may threaten plant species and communities.

Lastly, the Department is engaged in research to identify and understand threatening process and provides practical management advice to land managers.

Managing Threats to Vegetation

FireEnvironmental WeedsPest and Diseases

Monitoring Vegetation


Protecting Vegetation

A range of measures is required to effectively protect vegetation including in-situ measures such as the creation of areas set aside for the protection of vegetation and ex-situ measures such as a seed bank for insurance against extinction in the wild.

On Site (In-Situ) Protection

To ensure the full range of vegetation and communities is protected requires that areas or publicly owned and privately owned land are set aside and protected and managed for conservation via a range of measures including perpetual reservation and land management agreements of various kinds.Legal Measures to Protect Vegetation Communities and SpeciesOff Site (Ex-Situ) Protection

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This page - http://www.dpipwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/PWOD-7PM7CH?open - was last published on 3 November 2009 by the Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment. Questions concerning its content can be sent to NatureConservation Enquiries by using the feedback form, by mail to GPO Box 44, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001, or by telephone to 03 6233 6556.

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