When must new enrolments into AHC21016 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 24 December 2021 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in AHC21016?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

AHC21016 Certificate II in Conservation and Land Management

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

AHC21016Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Conservation and Land Management
equivalent
AHC21020Superseded — not equivalentCertificate II in Conservation and Ecosystem Management
not equivalent
AHC21024CurrentCertificate II in Conservation and Ecosystem Management

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

AHC21010AHC21016equivalent26 June 2016
This qualification is equivalent to AHC21010 Certificate II in Conservation and Land Management.
AHC21016AHC21020equivalent23 December 2020
Title changed. Unit description updated and packaging rules clarified. Unit codes updated. Units added to Group A and Group B electives

Is AHC21016 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether AHC21016 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What AHC21016 is made of

training.gov.au lists 65 units for AHC21016: 2 core and 63 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 2 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
AHCWHS201	Participate in work health and safety processes	not current
AHCWRK209	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	not current

Elective units 63 listed

Code	Unit	In this product
AHCBIO201	Inspect and clean machinery for plant, animal and soil material	not current
AHCCHM201	Apply chemicals under supervision	current
AHCFAU201	Recognise fauna	not current
AHCFIR201	Assist with prescribed burning	not current
AHCILM201	Maintain cultural places	not current
AHCILM202	Observe and report plants or animals	not current
AHCILM203	Record information about Country	not current
AHCINF201	Carry out basic electric fencing operations	not current
AHCINF202	Install, maintain and repair farm fencing	not current
AHCINF203	Maintain properties and structures	not current
AHCLSC201	Assist with landscape construction work	not current
AHCLSC203	Install aggregate paths	not current
AHCLSC205	Install tree protection devices	not current
AHCMOM201	Operate two wheel motorbikes	current
AHCMOM202	Operate tractors	current
AHCMOM203	Operate basic machinery and equipment	current
AHCMOM204	Undertake operational maintenance of machinery	current
AHCMOM205	Operate vehicles	current
AHCMOM206	Conduct grader operations	current
AHCMOM207	Conduct front-end loader operations	current
AHCMOM208	Conduct excavator operations	current
AHCMOM209	Conduct dozer operations	current
AHCMOM210	Conduct scraper operations	current
AHCMOM213	Operate and maintain chainsaws	current
AHCNAR201	Carry out natural area restoration works	not current
AHCNAR202	Maintain wildlife habitat refuges	not current
AHCNAR305	Collect native seed	not current
AHCNSY202	Care for nursery plants	not current
AHCNSY203	Undertake propagation activities	not current
AHCPCM201	Recognise plants	not current

Show the remaining 33 elective units

Code	Unit	In this product
AHCPCM202	Collect, prepare and preserve plant specimens	current
AHCPCM203	Fell small trees	not current
AHCPGD201	Plant trees and shrubs	not current
AHCPGD206	Conduct visual inspection of park facilities	not current
AHCPMG201	Treat weeds	current
AHCPMG202	Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders	current
AHCPMG304	Use firearms to humanely destroy animals	current
AHCPMG307	Apply animal trapping techniques	current
AHCSAW201	Conduct erosion and sediment control activities	not current
AHCSOL202	Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing	not current
AHCWRK201	Observe and report on weather	not current
AHCWRK202	Observe environmental work practices	not current
AHCWRK203	Operate in isolated and remote situations	not current
AHCWRK204	Work effectively in the industry	not current
AHCWRK205	Participate in workplace communications	not current
AHCWRK206	Observe enterprise quality assurance procedures	not current
AHCWRK207	Collect and record production data	not current
AHCWRK208	Provide information on products and services	not current
BSBINM201	Process and maintain workplace information	not current
BSBWOR204	Use business technology	not current
FWPCOT3259	Operate a four wheel drive on unsealed roads	not current
HLTAID002	Provide basic emergency life support	not current
HLTAID003	Provide first aid	not current
HLTAID005	Provide first aid in remote situations	not current
HLTAID010	Provide basic emergency life support	current
HLTAID011	Provide First Aid	current
HLTAID013	Provide First Aid in remote or isolated site	current
PUAFIR204B	Respond to wildfire	not current
PUAFIR215	Prevent injury	not current
PUALAW001B	Protect and preserve incident scene	not current
SITXCCS002	Provide visitor information	not current
TLID1001	Shift materials safely using manual handling methods	not current
TLILIC2001	Licence to operate a forklift truck	not current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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