... There are currently 20 species, populations or communities of fish, aquatic invertebrates and marine vegetation listed on the threatened species schedules of the NSW Fisheries Management Act 1994. Two of these species are the eastern freshwater cod Maccullochella ikei , and the grey nurse...

... list was developed on the assumption that there was more conservation value in commercially breeding rare and endangered species as against abundant species. The list is not exhaustive and excludes several common species known to thrive as pets. ...

... insects have been placed on the endangered species schedule. However, experience has shown that there are difficulties in using the Act to protect invertebrates. Issues include: use of criteria in the Act; taxonomic and scientific impediments; the need to protect habitat rather than individual species...

... legislation, even though Matters of National Environmental Significance addressed by the Commonwealth legislation may be locally relevant. The protection of endangered species, ecological communities and populations on North Head at Manly is used to highlight some of these concerns as they relate to both...

... poorly explored and documented. Two of the last three species of Australian birds to be discovered, all within the last 30 years, are present in western New South Wales; and an isolated population of Red-lored Whistlers, a nationally endangered species, was not found in the Griffith-Nymagee mallee belt...

... Suggestions that Australia can advance the conservation of native fauna by encouraging people to keep native animals as pets and have pastoralists replace sheep and cattle with kangaroos are not revolutionary. As with the preoccupation of environmentalists with endangered species, national parks...

... of only the necessary number of hosts allows disturbance and stress levels to be minimised, as well as time and amount of field work, without negative impact on the data reliability. This is especially important while dealing with rare and endangered species. ...