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Threatened Species Recovery Plans What are threatened Secondly, Regional Biodiversity Plans are 14 prepared which combine multi-species recovery species? planning and actions for groups or assemblages The Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 of threatened species, populations or ecological (TSC Act) protects all threatened plants and communities, providing both regional and site animals native to NSW (with the exception level management actions and threat abatement of fish and marine plants which are covered priorities (e.g. Border Ranges Hotspot Rainforest by the threatened species provisions of the Multi-species Recovery Plan). NOTE Fisheries Management Act 1994). It provides for Thirdly, recovery plans are prepared for the identification, conservation and recovery individual threatened species of plants and of threatened species and their populations and animals, providing detailed species specific communities. It also aims to reduce the threats recovery management actions and priorities. faced by those species. Species specific recovery plans are only prepared The Act contains lists of threatened species, for those species that require more details which are divided into several categories: recovery actions. • species presumed extinct There are three stages to the completion of a • endangered species Recovery Plan. • endangered populations • Research and plan preparation • endangered ecological communities • Draft Public Exhibition of Plan • vulnerable species • Plan approval by the Minister • vulnerable ecological communities. Recovery Plans identify the biological and For more information on threatened species ecological needs of a species by looking at its refer to Private Native Forestry Advisory Note habitat requirements, distribution and threats. Number 13. Plans aim to assess the threatening processes acting on the plant or animal and provide management actions such as pest control What does ‘recovery’ mean? (including feral animals and/or weed control), Recovery of a threatened species, population or habitat restoration and enhancement, fencing ecological community occurs when the decline is and site protection and management and arrested or reversed, and threats to survival are monitoring. reduced or eliminated, so that long-term survival of the species in nature can be assured. How is a plan put into action? What is a Recovery Plan? Recovery actions identified in the PAS and In NSW, recovery planning is faced with the individual plans will assist Public Authorities task of planning and implementing recovery in prioritizing works to recover species. actions and management of threats for over 900 Additionally, land owners are encouraged to threatened native plants and animals. implement recovery actions on their land. This is achieved through a stepped approach where firstly, at a state level, integrated planning What you can do Private Native Forestry - Advisory Forestry Native Private for recovery of threatened species is undertaken The support of community groups and in accordance with actions in the Threatened landowners is vital for the successful Species Priorities Action Statement (PAS). The recovery of threatened species. Landowners PAS combines strategic reform with specialist are encouraged to become involved in the recovery and threat abatement actions based on recovery of threatened species by helping in the 25 recovery and 12 threat abatement strategies. implementation of Recovery Plan actions on Under each strategy, actions are listed which aim private lands. Recovery Plans available for NSW to recover each threatened species and abate are listed below. each threat. Examples of Recovery Plans Endangered species - final plans Pseudomys oralis Kurri Sand Swamp Woodland Allocasuarina portuensis (a shrub) Pterostylis gibbosa (an orchid) Olearia flocktoniae (a bush) Angiopteris evecta (a fern) Pterostylis sp. Botany Bay (an orchid) Persoonia nutans (a shrub) Bathurst copper butterfly Pultenaea parrisiae subsp. elusa & Pimelea spicata Black-eared miner other ‘lost’ threatened flora of south- Plains-wanderer Blue Mountains water skink east NSW Prasophyllum affine (a terrestrial Quassia sp. Mooney Bolam’s mouse herb) Brush-tailed rock-wallaby Randia moorei Prasophyllum petilum (endangered Warrumbungles Rapanea species A Richmond River Prostanthera askania (a shrub) population) Red goshawk Quassia species B (a shrub) Bush Stone Curlew Senecio squarrosus & other ‘lost’ Randia moorei Caladenia arenaria (a flower) threatened flora of south-east NSW Southern bell frog Silky mouse Caladenia rosella and other ‘lost’ Triplarina nowraensis Southern Brown Bandicoot threatened flora of south-east NSW Uromyrtus australis (a shrub) Carex raleighii (a herb) and other Southern corroboree frog Wollemia nobilis (the Wollemi pine) threatened alpine flora Spotted tree frog Zieria ingramii (a shrub) Centralian Ranges rock skink Thick-billed grasswren Zieria involucrata (a shrub) Daphnandra sp. C Illawarra (a tree) Uromyrtus australis Davidsonia jerseyana (a tree) Viola cleistogamoides & other ‘lost’ Zieria obcordata (a shrub) Davidsonia johnsonii threatened flora of south-east NSW Vulnerable species – draft plans Diploglottis campbellii Western pygmy possum Acacia constablei & other flora of rocky outcrops in south-east NSW Double-eyed fig parrot Yellow-spotted bell frog Acacia georgensis & other flora of Eastern Suburbs banksia scrub Zieria adenophora (a shrub) rocky outcrops in south-east NSW Eidothea sp. ‘Nightcap Range’ (a tree) Zieria buxijugum (a shrub) Barking owl Elaeocarpus sp. Rocky Creek Zieria formosa (a shrub) Koala Eleocharis tetraquetra (a sedge) Zieria granulata (a shrub) Leionema ralstonii & other flora of Endiandra floydii Zieria lasiocaulis (a shrub) rocky outcrops in south-east NSW Endiandra hayesii Zieria parrisiae (a shrub) Westringia davidii & other flora of rocky outcrops in south-east NSW Endiandra muelleri subsp. bracteata Zieria prostrata (a shrub) Epacris hamiltonii (a shrub) Vulnerable species - final plans Eriocaulon carsonii (a shrub) Acacia pubescens Euphrasia collina subsp. muelleri & Bellinger River emydura other ‘lost’ threatened flora of south- Bertya sp. A Cobar-Coolabah east NSW Boronia granitica Genoplesium plumosum (a terrestrial orchid) Darwinia biflora (a shrub) Gentiana baeuerlenii & other ‘lost’ Euchiton nitidulus and other alpine threatened flora of south-east NSW flora Gould’s Petrel Forrest’s mouse Grevillea beadleana (a shrub) Genoplesium vernale (a orchid) Grevillea caleyi (a shrub) Grevillea kennedyana (a shrub) Grevillea obtusiflora (a shrub) Large Forest Owls Grevillea wilkinsonii (a shrub) Peppered frog Hakea pulvinifera (a shrub) Ranunculus anemoneus and other threatened alpine flora Hastings River Mouse Rytidosperma pumilum & other Irenepharsus magicus & other ‘lost’ threatened alpine flora threatened flora of south-east NSW Sandy inland mouse Irenepharsus trypherus (a herb) Yellow-bellied glider Koala population at Hawks Nest and Tea Gardens Endangered species – draft plans Kultarr Black-throated finch Leionema lachnaeoides (a shrub) Brush-tailed rock-wallaby Further Reading Caladenia concolor (a terrestrial Lepidium pseudopapillosum & other • See the DECC website for approved/ ‘lost’ threatened flora of south-east orchid) NSW Calotis moorei (a herb) draft Recovery Plans and other Little penguin population, Manly Corchorus cunninghamii threatened species information Point Davidsonia johnsonii http://www.nationalparks. Little tern Diploglottis campbellii nsw.gov.au/npws.nsf/Content/ Long-footed potoroo Elaeocarpus williamsianus Recovery+plans Lord Howe Island woodhen Endiandra floydii • http://www.threatenedspecies. Mitchell’s rainforest snail Endiandra muelleri subsp. bracteata environment.nsw.gov.au/index.aspx Mountain pygmy-possum and Endiandra hayesii Painted burrowing frog Eucalyptus recurva (a mallee) • Community Access to Natural Persoonia mollis subsp. maxima (shrub) Fontainea oraria (a tree) Resource Information: www.canri. Placostylus bivaricosus (a land snail) Genoplesium rhyoliticum & other flora nsw.gov.au Prostanthera junonis (a shrub) of rocky outcrops in south-east NSW Green and golden bell frog Department of Environment and Climate Change 1300 361 367 | www.environment.nsw.gov.au [email protected] | August 2007 ISBN 978 1 74122 526 6 DECC 2007/366.