54Protection of plants

54 Protection of plants

54 Protection of plants

(1) This section applies to land in the following regions that is a species protection zone for a species of plant within an environmentally significant area—

(a) Brigalow-Nandewar Region,

(b) South-Western Cypress Region.

(2) The land manager must not grant a permit to clear or disturb native vegetation unless the permit contains measures to ensure—

(a) individuals of the species of plant are not destroyed, disturbed or damaged, and

(b) individuals of a species of plant that belong to the ecological community constituting the relevant endangered ecological community are not destroyed, disturbed or damaged in the following areas—

(i) a species protection zone for Inland Grey Box Woodland EEC,

(ii) a species protection zone for Part 1 Box Gum Woodland EEC,

(iii) an environmentally significant area for Part 2 Box Gum Woodland EEC.

(3) In this section—

Inland Grey Box Woodland EEC means the endangered ecological community of Inland Grey Box Woodland in the Riverina, NSW South Western Slopes, Cobar Peneplain, Nandewar and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions, as described in the final determination of the Scientific Committee under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 published in the Government Gazette of 27 April 2007 at page 2453.

Part 1 Box Gum Woodland EEC means the endangered ecological community of White Box Yellow Box Blakely’s Red Gum Woodland, as described in the final determination of the Scientific Committee under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 published in the Government Gazette of 15 March 2002 at page 1648 and identified under the South-Western Cypress IFOA, Schedule 8, Part 1.

Part 2 Box Gum Woodland EEC means the endangered ecological community of White Box Yellow Box Blakely’s Red Gum Woodland, as described in the final determination of the Scientific Committee under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 published in the Government Gazette of 15 March 2002 at page 1648 and identified under the South-Western Cypress IFOA, Schedule 8, Part 2.

species protection zone means a zone for the protection of a threatened species as described in the Brigalow-Nandewar IFOA, Part 3.6, or the South-Western Cypress IFOA, Part 3.6.