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Threatened Species Strategy Acknowledgement of Country threatened species strategy acknowledgement of country Photo: Kerry Cameron The Department of the Environment and Energy acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures and to their elders both past and present. We are committed to working respectfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and give particular acknowledgement to their use, knowledge and custodianship of Australia’s native plants and animals over countless generations. The Department supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their aspirations to maintain, protect and manage their culture, language, land and sea country and heritage. For more information please see the Reconciliation Action Plan. threatened species strategy year three report page 1 page 2 threatened species strategy year three report commissioner,s message As the mid-point of a five year The year three targets are ambitious. this year three Action Plan, this Report provides an Recovery can take time and the opportunity to report on progress and immediate threats to our threatened report marks an adapt approaches to achieve the best species can be difficult to combat. outcomes for Australia’s threatened and Improvements require utilising important milestone unique species. the most up-to-date science to inform management actions and for the threatened It captures the actions and highlights in depend on the contributions of threatened species protection since my many partners, including state and species strategy. last report 12 months ago, and reports territory governments, business, on progress against the targets in the non-government organisations, Threatened Species Strategy. communities and Indigenous groups. Under the Strategy, the Australian I am pleased to report that of the Government outlined four key action 21 targets for year three, 11 have been areas to focus efforts to achieve met and four partially met. Six of our significant, positive outcomes for our targets were not achieved but, in many threatened species: tackling feral cats cases, good progress was still made. and their impacts, safe havens for species most at risk, improving habitat Feral cat control is estimated to be and undertaking emergency occurring across 18 million hectares interventions to avert extinctions. of the Australian landscape, which is reducing the impact on our birds To measure progress against these and mammals such as the Western action areas, the Strategy includes Ground Parrot, Central Rock-rat and the ambitious targets to decrease the Woylie. Action to eradicate feral cats impacts of feral cats on our threatened on five islands is well underway - on species, increase the number of fenced Christmas Island, feral cat eradication areas and feral-free islands as safe is being rolled out across the National havens, improve the trajectories of Park and township, while the Western 20 birds, 20 mammals and 30 threatened Australian Government’s work on plant species and improve recovery Dirk Hartog Island has led to it being practices. These are split into one year, declared completely feral cat-free, three year and five year targets. paving the way for the reintroduction of ten mammal and one bird species that had disappeared from the island. Five remaining mainland feral-free fenced areas have been identified to add to the existing fenced areas, which will provide safe havens for some of our iconic species such as the Eastern Quoll and the Bilby so they can recover and even thrive. threatened species strategy year three report page 3 I am also delighted that the targets to Actions over the past three years are Looking forward, this report will protect Australia’s plants have been likely to lead to further improvements help to inform the next steps, as we met. More than 50 per cent of Australia’s in the future, as activities such as tree focus on the task of achieving the known threatened plant species are planting increase the quantity and even more ambitious targets in year now stored in conservation seed quality of habitat available over time. five. During this time, the Australian banks. In addition, recovery actions are Government’s Regional Land underway for many of our threatened There is still considerable work to do Partnerships program will provide plants and threatened ecological to meet the target of all priority birds, an important boost to achieving communities, funded by the Australian mammals and plants improving their outcomes for threatened species. Government and our many partners. trajectory by 2020, and this will need sustained effort to protect and recover I would like to acknowledge the Improving the trajectory of ten their populations. contribution from our many partners priority birds and ten priority mammals who have helped prepare this within the space of three years was Australia is home to many unique report, including scientists from the always going to be a challenge. species, but awareness of this incredible National Environmental Science The assessment of these targets has diversity is not high. A really important Program’s Threatened Species also been demanding, requiring a and rewarding part of my role has Recovery Hub, the Royal Melbourne robust, scientific approach which been to meet the communities and Institute of Technology, state and acknowledges the lack of data in organisations working to improve the territory governments and other some areas, but utilises a wealth of outcomes of our threatened species organisations such as Australian Wildlife expertise to provide the best available and to share these endeavours through Conservancy, Bush Heritage Australia, assessment of population trends. social media to an ever increasing Birdlife Australia, recovery teams and Australian audience. My Facebook Indigenous ranger groups. I’m pleased to see that the trajectories page now has 31,300 followers, of six birds and eight mammals are while Twitter has 9,900 and Instagram improving at this mid-way point. 1,400. The Threatened Species Bake While we have not met the target, Off in September 2018 also reached there is ample evidence that the a new audience of families and collective and sustained effort communities, united in baking their of committed individuals and favourite threatened species-themed Dr Sally Box organisations across Australia and cakes and biscuits in tea rooms around Threatened Species Commissioner the contributions from Australian the country. By raising awareness Government programs such as the through social media and community Threatened Species Recovery Fund, engagements such as with schools the 20 Million Trees Program and the and other audiences, the community National Landcare Program has made can better understand their natural a real difference to species that are environment and this can lead to facing dire threats to their survival. taking greater action to protect it. Through encouraging partnerships and funding through innovative means such as the Threatened Species Prospectus, our collective efforts can achieve greater results. page 4 threatened species strategy year three report contents Acknowledgement of Country 1 Commissioner’s message 3 A YEAR IN REVIEW 6 Year three highlights 14 REPORTING AGAINST THE YEAR THREE TARGETS 15 Threatened Species Strategy targets 16 Tackling feral cats and their impacts 18 20 Mammals by 2020 21 20 Birds by 2020 23 Protecting Australia’s plants 25 Improving Recovery Practices 27 TARGETS IN FOCUS 29 Targets in Focus – Tackling feral cats on islands 30 Targets in Focus – Establishing feral cat-free safe havens 33 Targets in Focus – Feral cat control across 5 million hectares 37 Targets in Focus – Feral cat control across Commonwealth lands 39 Targets in Focus – 1 million cats culled at the national level 41 Targets in Focus – Measuring actions and trajectories for mammals and birds 43 Targets in Focus – Action underway for mammals 45 Targets in Focus – Improving the trajectories of 20 mammals 46 Targets in Focus – Action underway for birds 67 Targets in Focus – Improving the trajectories of 20 birds 68 Targets in Focus – Project evaluation and adaptive management 90 Targets in Focus – Action underway for plants 92 Targets in Focus – Action underway for Threatened Ecological Communities 94 Targets in Focus – Seed banking 96 Targets in Focus – Aligning threatened species listings 98 Targets in Focus – Maintaining current conservation plans 99 Targets in Focus – Enhancing governance and reporting 101 Targets in Focus – Linking funding with planning 104 Links to other information 106 threatened species strategy year three report page 5 a year in review Photo: Dean Ingwersen, BirdLife Australia , UTILISING SCIENCE Other research highlights that australias are directly contributing to the Knowledge is key. By engaging with implementation of the Threatened scientists, using evidence-based collective and Species Strategy include the publication decision-making and incorporating of updated plant translocation Indigenous Australians’ unique sustained recovery guidelines, an assessment of the knowledge of the environment, we can adequacy of threatened species be confident we are choosing the efforts have monitoring in Australia, working actions most likely to succeed. achieved some with local partners to develop The Australian Government has better monitoring methods for the important outcomes committed $145 million over six years Kangaroo Island Dunnart, and scientific
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