You're welcome. I've also just found this on the web at
http://austlii.org/au/other/dfat/nia/2006/31.html, when amendments
were made to the CAMBA list last year:
Reasons for Australia to take the proposed treaty action...
9. Australia proposed the removal of the painted snipe from the Annex
to the CAMBA following a taxonomic study which revealed that the
painted snipe found in Australia are a different species to those
found in Asia. The species is therefore not a regular migrant between
Australia and China and should not be included in the Annex to the CAMBA.
10. As the painted snipe is already afforded protection as a matter
of National Environmental Significance by virtue of its listing as a
threatened species under the EPBC Act, its removal from the list of
migratory species will not lessen the protection afforded to the
species and its habitat.
Cheers, Dean
At 03:20 PM 14/08/2007, Colin Driscoll wrote:
Thanks Dean, you've answered my original query, that the change to an
Australian endemic meant that the bird would no longer qualify for listing
in the CAMBA appendix.
Colin Driscoll
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Painted Snipe conservation status (and surveys!)
Hi all,
A few points to follow up the discussion on Painted Snipe. One of my
colleagues has just written some text for the Federal government's
threatened species unit for the species, part of which involved checking the
listing in each state/territory:
Federal: Listed as Vulnerable under the Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 as Australian Painted Snipe Rostratula
australis.
Queensland: Listed as Vulnerable under the Nature Conservation (Wildlife)
Regulation 2006 as Rostratula benghalensis.
New South Wales: Listed as Endangered under the Threatened Species
Conservation Act 1995 as Rostratula benghalensis australis.
Victoria: Listed as Threatened under the Threatened List 2006 supplementing
the Flora and Fauna Guarantee (FFG) Act 1988 as Rostratula benghalensis.
South Australia: Listed as Rare under the National Parks and Wildlife Act
1972 (Schedule 9) as Rostratula benghalensis
Western Australia: Listed as Rare or Likely to Become Extinct on the
Wildlife Conservation (Specially Protected Fauna) Notice 2006(2) as
Rostratula benghalensis australis.
Northern Territory: Listed as Vulnerable under the Territory Parks and
Wildlife Conservation Act 2000 as Rostratula benghalensis australis.
Although this again highlights some discrepancies which exist in lists, the
good thing is that the Federal government listed the species as R.
australis following the nomination a few years ago based on a paper written
by several people involved with the Painted Snipe 'team'
coordinated by Birds Australia's Threatened Bird Network and the
Australasian Wader Studies Group. And (hoping I don't speak out of turn
here) there is about to be a paper published which supports it as a full
species (R.
australis) based on genetic work done by various people involved in the
project. And I've also heard a rumour it will be treated as such in the new
Christidis and Boles list based on this new paper.but don't quote me on this
as things can change unexpectedly. So even if it does drop off the CAMBA
appendix, it will still be well covered by the EPBC Act.
For those interested I can supply copies of papers published, and
newsletters which we have produced here at the TBN, on Australian Painted
Snipe. We are also running surveys again this year, with the first to occur
on the weekend of the 27-28 October. For more information please don't
hesitate to contact me.
Cheers, Dean Ingwersen
Threatened Bird Network coordinator
Birds Australia
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