1Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (List of Threatened Ecological Communities (EC186)) Instrument 20266

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (List of Threatened Ecological Communities (EC186)) Instrument 2026

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

Dated  4 March 2026

Murray Watt

Murray Watt

Minister for the Environment and Water

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Declaration under s178, s181, and s183 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - List of threatened species, List of threatened ecological communities and List of threatening processes

Schedule 2— Description of ecological community

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (List of Threatened Ecological Communities (EC186)) Instrument 20266

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after it is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 184 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in Schedule 1 to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in Schedule 1 to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Declaration under s178, s181, and s183 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 - List of threatened species, List of threatened ecological communities and List of threatening processes

1  In the appropriate position under the category heading “ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES THAT ARE CRITICALLY ENDANGERED”

Insert the following ecological community:

 (a) Illawarra-Shoalhaven shrublands on volcanic outcrops

Schedule 2— Description of ecological community

Illawarra-Shoalhaven shrublands on volcanic outcrops

 

The ecological community is the assemblage of plants, animals and other organisms associated with and dependent upon, a type of dense (at times patchy) shrubland typically dominated by Melaleuca armillaris (bracelet honey-myrtle) or Kunzea ambigua (tick bush). Acacia spp. (wattle) and Platysace lanceolata (shrubby platysace) can dominate or co-dominate the canopy in certain locations, particularly after disturbance events such as fire.