220A   Objects of Part

The objects of this Part are as follows:

(a)  to conserve biological diversity of fish and marine vegetation and promote ecologically sustainable development and activities,

(b)  to prevent the extinction and promote the recovery of threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation,

(c)  to protect the critical habitat of those threatened species, populations and ecological communities that are endangered,

(d)  to eliminate or manage certain processes that threaten the survival or evolutionary development of threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation,

(e)  to ensure that the impact of any action affecting threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation is properly assessed,

(f)  to encourage the conservation of threatened species, populations and ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation by the adoption of measures involving co-operative management.

Note. In furtherance of the objects of this Part, the responsibilities of the Minister and the Director-General extend to biological diversity of fish and marine vegetation—see the other provisions of this Part and the provisions relating to the Biological Diversity Advisory Council and the Biological Diversity Strategy in relation to fish and marine vegetation under Part 9 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.