The Threatened Species Legislation Amendment Act 2004 established a requirement to prepare a Priorities Action Statement (PAS). The PAS will set out the strategies (recovery and threat abatement strategies) to be adopted for promoting the recovery of each threatened species, population and ecological community to a position of viability in nature. The PAS will also establish relative priorities for implementation of these strategies and establish performance indicators to enable reporting on the achievements and their effectiveness.
The PAS will also contain a status report on each threatened species, where information is available, and set out timetables for recovery and threat abatement planning. The PAS will work in conjunction with recovery plans and programs already approved and in progress. It will not supersede or replace existing programs, rather provide a broader context for the actions of those programs.
The PAS must be placed on public exhibition prior to adoption and will be reviewed every 3 years. The first PAS will be completed in March 2006 this year.
When produced, this site will be upgraded to include a searchable version of the PAS. Users will be able to identify Priority Actions for particular areas such as Catchment Management Authorities, Local Government Areas and National Parks.
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