Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020

The proposed management intent for an animal that is least concern wildlife is—

to monitor and review the conservation status of the animal; and

to the extent practicable, to prepare and put into effect conservation plans or other instruments for the animal if—

the animal is of commercial, recreational, traditional or potential conservation interest; or

the chief executive considers the animal to be potentially vulnerable; and

to encourage scientific research and inventory programs likely to contribute to an understanding of the animal or the Australian biota; and

to incorporate into educational material and programs provided by the department, information about the animal’s contribution to Queensland’s and Australia’s biodiversity; and

for a special least concern animal—to ensure each person exercising a power or carrying out a function for a public sector unit has regard to the following when exercising the power or carrying out the function—

the special cultural significance of the animal;

the need to conserve existing populations of the animal.

In this section—

an echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus);

a platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus);

a least concern bird to which any of the following agreements apply—

the agreement called ‘Agreement Between the Government of Australia and the Government of Japan for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Birds in Danger of Extinction and their Environment’, signed at Tokyo on 6 February 1974;

the agreement called ‘Agreement Between the Government of Australia and the Government of the People’s Republic of China for the Protection of Migratory Birds and their Environment’, signed at Canberra on 20 October 1986;

the agreement called ‘Agreement Between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Korea on the Protection of Migratory Birds and Exchange of Notes’, signed at Canberra on 6 December 2006;

the convention called ‘Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals’, signed at Bonn on 23 June 1979.