Wildlife Conservation Act 1950

The Wildlife Conservation Act 1950 is an act of the Western Australian Parliament that provides the statute relating to conservation and legal protection of flora and fauna.^[1] It was replaced by the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 on 3 December 2016,^[2] and finally repealed as of 1 January 2019 when the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and the Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2018 became current.^[1][3]

CitationNo. 77 of 1950

Royal assent5 January 1951

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Wildlife Conservation Act 1950
Parliament of Western Australia
Long title An Act to provide for the Conservation and Protection of Wildlife.
Citation	No. 77 of 1950
Royal assent	5 January 1951
Status: Repealed

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The act was supplemented periodically by notices, which are lists of species subject to protection under the act, for example the Wildlife Conservation (Specially Protected Fauna) Notice 2008. The lists are arranged in schedules according to level of vulnerability. Schedule 1 is "Fauna that is rare or is likely to become extinct" or "Extant [flora] taxa"; Schedule 2 is "Fauna presumed to be extinct" or [Flora] "Taxa presumed to be extinct".^{[citation needed]}