Bonn Convention Conservation List

Brief description

The Bonn Convention appendices identify migratory taxa at and below the species level, as well as some whole families in Appendix II. The convention definition of migratory species is ‘the entire population or any geographically separate part of the population of any species or lower taxon of wild animals, a significant proportion of whose members cyclically and predictably cross one or more national jurisdictional boundaries’. This definition has been adopted in the EPBC Act. The family listings in Appendix II of the Bonn Convention do not explicitly include all members of each family and, for the purposes of the EPBC Act, the family listings include only those species which are native to Australia and are known to be cyclical and predictable migrants into and out of Australia. The taxonomy of families used in the Bonn Convention appendices is not regularly updated. The following codes are used in the Bonn Convention appendices: A1: species listed explicitly in Appendix 1; A2S: species listed explicitly in Appendix 2; A2H: species is member of a family listed in Appendix 2; and A2S*: species listed as a result of a recent taxonomic revision of a species listed explicitly in Appendix 2. More information is available at https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicshowmigratory.pl

Notes

Includes: species list