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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2026 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2025

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This instrument designates the 2026 conservation theme to be prioritised in EPBC Act nomination assessments: protection and recovery of species and ecological communities at risk from the harmful algal bloom off the coast of South Australia (s4). It takes effect the day after registration (s2) and is made under s194D (s3). The Minister (Murray Watt) set the theme; the change shifts assessment priority, so nominators and the agencies that assess nominations must reallocate attention and resources for the 1 October 2026 assessment period.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2026 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2025

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2026 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2025

I, Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

Dated 20 / 10 / 25

Murray Watt

Minister for the Environment and Water

1 Name

This instrument is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (2026 Conservation Theme for Prioritising Nominations of Threatened Species, Threatened Ecological Communities and Key Threatening Processes) Determination 2025.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under section 194D of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

4 Determination

‘Nominations that support the protection and recovery of species and ecological communities at risk from the impacts of the harmful algal bloom off the coast of South Australia.’ is a conservation theme that should be given priority in relation to the assessment period commencing 1 October 2026.

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I, Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water, make the following instrument.

Dated 20 / 10 / 25

Murray Watt

Minister for the Environment and Water

1 Name

2 Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under section 194D of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

4 Determination