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Commonwealth of Australia

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Section 269A

Instrument Adopting Recovery Plans

I, PETER ROBERT GARRETT, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, hereby adopt, under subsection 269A(7) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), the Lord Howe Island Biodiversity Management Plan (2007) (as made by the New South Wales Government) as the recovery plan for the following listed threatened species located on Lord Howe Island:

• Calystegia affinis;
• Elymus multiflorus var. kingianus;
• Strepera graculina crissalis (Lord Howe Island Currawong);
• Dryococelus australis (Lord Howe Island Phasmid);
• Placostylus bivaricosus (Lord Howe Placostylus);
• Christinus guentheri (Lord Howe Island Gecko);
• Pseudemoia lichenigera (Lord Howe Island Skink);
• Pterodroma neglecta neglecta (Kermadec Petrel (western)); and
• Fregetta grallaria grallaria (White-bellied Storm-Petrel (Australasian)).

The adopted recovery plan will come into force on the date of signing of this instrument.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of May 2008.

PETER ROBERT GARRETT

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts