The point that Andrew makes is not strictly true. The population of Emu on
the North Coast has been considered by the NSW Scientific Committee as an
endangered population (see link listed below) and so has to be at least
considered as part of an envirionmental assessment.
However, many people tend to question the legitimacy of these endangered
populations (including to a point myself) and they are probably the least
biologically rigorous. However, the population is considered to have
declined and so should at least be monitored. How you define a "genuinely
threatened species" is I guess the question.
Cheers,
Peter
http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/content/emu+population+in+the+nsw+north+coast+bioregion+and+port+stephens+local+government+area+endangered+population++listing
From: Andrew Taylor <>
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Subject: [birding-aus] Pacific Highway vs Eastern Coastal Emu
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:07:15 +1000
> Please sign our online petition to save the Eastern Coastal Emu,
> symbolic of the 80+ other threatened species in this undeveloped area,
> from fragmentation and destruction.
This is quite misleading. The "Eastern Coastal Emu" is not a threatened
species. The area's remnant Emu population has some conservation value,
but inflated claims like this will in the end harm other conservation
efforts by creating skepticism when habitat needs to be protected for
genuinely threatened species like Regent Honeyeaters.
There may be more significant conservation issues with these roadworks
than the Emu population but you couldn't have much confidence in other
claims by the group.
Andrew
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