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Tiwi Islands endangered and endemic species

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Tiwi Islands endangered and endemic species – [not all of these occur in the forests currently being cleared by Sylvatech/Great Southern Plantations, but all could be impacted by the project]

The Tiwi Islands support about 20 endemic plant and vertebrate animal taxa, and about 44 taxa considered threatened at Territory or national level (including 14 taxa listed under the Commonwealth EPBC Act).

Eucalypt forests, which are being cleared for exotic plantations, are better developed in this bioregion than anywhere else in northern Australia and provide habitat for a number of declared species.

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Red goshawk – ‘vulnerable’: schedule 1, Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC)

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Partridge pigeon – ‘vulnerable’: schedule 1, EPBC Act

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Masked owl (endemic subspecies) – ‘vulnerable’, Sch 1, EPBC

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Butler’s dunnart – ‘vulnerable’, Sch 1, EPBC

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False water rat – ‘vulnerable’, Sch 1, EPBC

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14 rainforest plant species that occur nowhere else but the Tiwi Islands

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At least 15 endemic subspecies of birds and mammals

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Two rainforest types which are restricted to the Tiwi Islands

For these and other reasons, the Tiwi Islands have been designated as being of “International Significance” by the NT Government (2002, unpublished)

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