Otway Ranges Environment Network

 

 

Print This Page

Myrtle Wilt and the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act


Human activity which results in artificially elevated levels of myrtle wilt within Nothofagus dominated cool temperate rainforest (nomination 453) was put forward for listing in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act in July 1997. This nomination was gazetted into the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act on the 22nd December 2000.

All threatened species and threatening process listed under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988 must have an Action Statement completed 'as soon as possible' after listing. An Action Statement would set out management prescriptions to protect rainforest from logging practices.

For instance, scientific research in Tasmania indicates that buffers around Cool Temperate Rainforest should be increased from the current 60 metres stipulated in the Code of Forest Practices to between 250 - 350 metres.

In April 2001 the department advised that an Action Statement for Human activity which results in artificially elevated levels of myrtle wilt within Nothofagus dominated cool temperate rainforest would be completed by late 2001. This was never done.

Correspondence from the department

The Myrtle Wilt Gazette can be found at www.gazette.vic.gov.au G51, 21 December 2000, Page 3017-3019. Copies of the Myrtle Wilt Nomination 453 can be obtained from Martin O'Brien from Flora and Fauna on 9412 4567

 
   
 
 

Don't know the meaning of a word? Check the glossary.

  Copyright