50 No. 26436 Act No. 10,2004 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7 KJNE 2004 NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: BIODIVERSITY ACT, 2004 result of humanintervention,althoughtheyarenot critically endangered ecosystems or endangered ecosystems; and (d) protected ecosystems, being ecosystemsthat are of high conservation value or of high national or provincial importance, although they arelisted not in terms of paragraphs (a), (b) or (c). 5 (3) ,4 list referred to in subsection ( 1) must describe in sufficient detail the locationof each ecosystem on the list. (4) The Minister and the MEC for environmental affairs in a relevant province, respectively, must at leastevery five yearsreviewanynational or provincial list published by the Minister or MECin terms of subsection (1). 10 (5) An MEC may publisho? amend a provincial list only with the concurrence of the Minister. Threatening processes in listed ecosystems 53. (1j The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, identify any process oractivity in a listed ecosystem process. threatening as a 15 (2) A threatening process identified in terms of subsection (1) must be regarded as a specified activity contemplatedinsection24(2)(b) of theNationalEnvironmental Management Act and a listed ecosystem must be regarded asan area identified for the purpose of that section. Certain plans to take into account in protection of listed ecosystems 20 54. Anorgan of state that mustprepareanenvironmentalimplementationor environmental management plan in terms of Chapter 3 of the National Environmental Management Act, and a municipality that must adopt an integrated development plan in terms of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act No. 32 of 2000), must take into account the need for the protection of listed ecosystems. 25 Amendment of notices 55. The Minister or the MEC for Environmental Affairsin any relevant provincemay, by notice in theGazette, amend or repeal any notice published by him or her in terms of section 52(1) or 53(1). Part 2 30 Protection of threatened or protectedspecies Listing of species that are threatened orin need of national protection 56. (1j The Minister may, by noticein the Gazette, publish a list of( a ) critically endangered species, beinganyindigenousspeciesfacing an extremelyhigh risk of extinctioninthewild in theimmediatefuture; 35 ( b ) endangeredspecies,beinganyindigenousspeciesfacing a high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future, although they are not a critically endangered species; ( c ) vulnerable species, being any indigenous species facing an extremelyhigh