Recovery plans and interim recovery plans for Western Australian fauna are either available on this Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) website or the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website.

Recovery plans and interim recovery plans published by DBCA are available in the Downloads section below. 

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Recovery plans for the following species and groups of species can be searched for on the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water website:

 
Albatrosses, Giant petrels

National recovery plan for ten species of seabirds

Antarctic tern [Indian Ocean] (Sterna vittata vittata)
Australian lesser noddy (Anous tenuirostris melanops)
Blue petrel (Halobaena caerulea)
Fairy prion [southern] (Pachyptila tutur subantarctica)
Herald petrel (Pterodroma heraldica)
Soft-plumaged petrel (Pterodroma mollis)

Australian sea-lion (Neophoca cinerea)
Baudin’s cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii)
Forest red-tailed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii naso)

Recovery plan for five species of rock wallabies

Black-footed rock wallaby (Petrogale lateralis)
Short-eared rock wallaby (Petrogale brachyotis)
Monjon (Petrogale burbidgei)
Nabarlek (Petrogale concinna)
Rothschild rock wallaby (Petrogale rothschildi)

Blue, fin and sei whale recovery plan

Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus)
Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

Butler’s dunnart (Sminthopsis butleri)

Cape Range remipede community (Bundera Sinkhole) and Cape Range remipede interim recovery plan

Cape Range Remipede (Kumonga exleyi (formerly Lasionectes exleyi))

Carnaby's cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris)

Camerons Cave troglobitic community, Camerons Cave millipede and Camerons Cave pseudoscorpion interim recovery plan

Camerons Cave Millipede (Stygiochiropus peculiaris)
Camerons Cave Pseudoscorpion (Indohya damocles (formerly Hyella sp.))

Chuditch (Dasyurus geoffroii)

National multi-species recovery plan for the partridge pigeon, crested shrike-tit and masked owl

Crested shrike-tit [northern (sub)species] (Falcunculus (frontatus) whitei)
Masked owl [north Australian mainland subspecies] (Tyto novaehollandiae kimberli)
Partridge pigeon [eastern subspecies] (Geophaps smithii smithii)

Recovery plan for marine turtles in Australia

Flatback turtle (Natator depressus)
Green turtle (Chelonia mydas)
Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)
Olive Ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)

Golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus)
Golden-backed tree-rat (Mesembriomys macrurus)
Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae)
Great desert skink (Liopholis kintorei (formerly Egernia kintorei))
Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)
Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis)
Grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus)
Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)
Northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus)
Northern marsupial mole (Notoryctes caurinus)
Southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops)
Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus
Plains rat, Palyoora (Pseudomys australis)
Red Goshawk (Erythrotriorchis radiatus)
Rufous Hare-wallaby, Mala (Bernier and Dorre Islands) (Lagorchestes hirsutus bernieri)
Rufous Hare-wallaby, Mala (central mainland) (Lagorchestes hirsutus spp. NTM U2430)
Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis)
Sub-Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis)
Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonine)
Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)

Western barred bandicoot, burrowing bettong and banded hare-wallaby recovery plan

Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville)
Burrowing bettong (Bettongia lesueur)
Banded hare-wallaby (Lagostrophus fasciatus)

South Coast Threatened Birds recovery plan

Western ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus flaviventris
Western bristlebird (Dasyornis longirostris)
Noisy scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus)
Western whipbird (western heath) (Psophodes nigrogularis nigrogularis)
Western whipbird (western mallee) (Psophodes nigrogularis oberon)
Rufous bristlebird (western) (Dasyornis broadbenti litoralis)

Western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis)
Western spiny-tailed skink (Egernia stokesii)
Western swamp tortoise (Pseudemydura umbrina)
Whale shark (Rhincodon typus)
Woylie (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi)

 

More information on recovery plans 

Department Corporate Policy Statement no. 35 Conserving Threatened Species and Ecological Communities. 

Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy's Recovery planning - Compliance checklist for legislative and process requirements to be provided with recovery plans for terrestrial threatened species and ecological communities (DoE 2014) 

The Department of the Environment and Energy's webpage for national recovery plans

List of National Recovery Plans for threatened species and ecological communities listed under the EPBC Act