Painted Snipe conservation status (and surveys!)

[Ian May <>]

Hi all

A proposal by the SA Government to shut off water flows to wetlands 
along the River Murray will impact on water birds across the region.   
Painted Snipe also inhabit rushes along the swampy margins of open ditch 
irrigation drains in many regions and recent water conservation policy 
recommends enclosing irrigation channels using pipes.
From implementing such policies, the adverse impacts to some rare, 
threatened and endangered species will not be insignificant.   The 
policies seem to challenge the legislation.   What do these conservation 
listings and treaties really mean?
Regards


Ian May





Dean Ingwersen wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
> >  On Behalf Of Dean Ingwersen
> > Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 2:59 PM
> > To: 
> > 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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