Draft National Recovery Plan for Albatrosses and Petrels (2021)
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Draft National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels (2021) May 2021 The Species Profile and Threats Database pages linked to this recovery plan are obtainable from: http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl. © Copyright Commonwealth of Australia, 2021. The National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels is licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia for use under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence with the exception of the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia, the logo of the agency responsible for publishing the report, content supplied by third parties, and any images depicting people. For licence conditions see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This report should be attributed as 'National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels (2021), Commonwealth of Australia 2021'. 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Draft National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels (2021) National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels | i National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels | ii Contents List of Tables ................................................................................................................................................................. vi List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................................ viii Glossary .......................................................................................................................................................................... ix Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................... 15 2.1 Recovery plans ............................................................................................................................................ 17 2.2 Albatross and petrel species referred to in recovery plan ........................................................ 17 2.3 Review of previous recovery plan ....................................................................................................... 19 2.4 Legal framework ......................................................................................................................................... 20 2.5 Albatross and petrel ecology ................................................................................................................. 22 2.6 Habitats regarded as critical to the survival of the threatened species .............................. 22 2.7 Key Biodiversity Areas ............................................................................................................................. 24 Threats ................................................................................................................................................................................ 27 Threat prioritisation .................................................................................................................................................... 29 Overview of species profiles ..................................................................................................................................... 33 Recovery plan vison, objectives and strategies................................................................................................. 35 3.1 Long-term vision ........................................................................................................................................ 35 3.2 Recovery plan objective .......................................................................................................................... 35 3.3 Strategies to achieve the objective ...................................................................................................... 35 Actions to achieve the objective .............................................................................................................................. 36 4.1 Recovery targets ......................................................................................................................................... 36 Strategy 1 – Improve and maintain protection of breeding site habitats ..................................... 38 Strategy 2 – Improve the understanding of the size, structure and population trends for species breeding and foraging in Australian jurisdiction .................................................................... 39 Strategy 3 – Improve effectiveness of management measures that reduce land-based threats to breeding within Australian jurisdiction ................................................................................................. 41 Strategy 4 – Improve effectiveness of management measures that reduce marine based threats to species foraging in Australian jurisdiction............................................................................ 43 Strategy 5 – Improve understanding of generalised threats to species breeding and foraging within Australian jurisdiction ......................................................................................................................... 44 Strategy 6 – Improve community awareness of the conservation of albatrosses and petrels ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 45 Strategy 7 – Achieve substantial progress towards global conservation of albatrosses and petrels in international conservation and fishing forums ................................................................... 47 4.2 Performance of the recovery plan ....................................................................................................... 48 National Recovery Plan for albatrosses and petrels | iii Recovery team ................................................................................................................................................................ 49 Duration and cost of the recovery process ......................................................................................................... 50 Effects on other native species and biodiversity benefits ............................................................................ 51 Social and economic considerations ...................................................................................................................... 52 Affected interests ........................................................................................................................................................... 53 Consultation ..................................................................................................................................................................... 55 Organisations/persons involved in evaluating performance of the plan .............................................. 56 References ........................................................................................................................................................................ 58 APPENDIX A: Status under Commonwealth and state legislation of albatross and petrel species referred to in the recovery plan. ............................................................................................................................. 96 APPENDIX B: Habitats that are regarded as critical to the survival of threatened albatross and petrel species breeding within Australian jurisdiction ................................................................................. 99 APPENDIX C: Threats in detail ............................................................................................................................... 111 Terrestrial threats ..................................................................................................................................................... 111 Marine threats ........................................................................................................................................................... 117 APPENDIX D: Species Profiles ................................................................................................................................ 128 Albatrosses ................................................................................................................................................................. 128 Diomedea amsterdamensis Amsterdam Albatross (Roux et al. 1983) ................................................ 128 Diomedea dabbenena Tristan Albatross (Matthews 1929) ...................................................................