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the activity, proposed or current. However, the recovery plan will aid in determining what could be significant impacts on the Christmas Island Frigatebird (through defining habitat critical to survival and developing a management plan outside the national park).

Biodiversity Benefits
Protection of the habitat of the Christmas Island Frigatebird provides protection for numerous other listed species, including those in Table 1. Community education targeted at this species will promote awareness of all the endemic birds and their conservation needs.

Table 1: Native species listed under the EPBC Act which will benefit from recovery actions listed in this plan (after Environment Australia 2002)
Taxon                                                      National Status
Tectaria devexa var. minor                                 E
Carmona retusa                                             V
Christmas Island Pipistrelle (e) Pipistrellus murrayi      E
Christmas Island shrew (e) Crocidura attenuata trichura    E
Christmas Island Blind Snake (e) Ramphotyphlops exocoeti   V
Christmas Island Gecko Lepidodactylus listeri              V
Christmas Island Goshawk (e) Accipiter fasciatus natalis   E MF
Christmas Island Hawk-owl (e) Ninox natalis                VJ
Abbott's Booby (e) Papasula abbotti                        E M S J
Red-footed Booby Sula sula rubripes                        M S C J
Great Frigatebird Fregata minor minor                      M S C J

Notes: (e)=species or subspecies endemic to the island.
E Listed under the EPBC Act as Endangered S Listed Marine species under the EPBC Act.
V Listed under the EPBC Act as Vulnerable C Listed under CAMBA
M Listed under the EPBC Act as a Migratory species J Listed under JAMBA
MF Within a family listed under the EPBC Act as Migratory

Relationship to other plans
The National Park Management Plan is the strategic nature conservation document for Christmas Island. This recovery plan makes numerous recommendations in common with other recovery plans for Christmas Island threatened taxa. Opportunities for sharing resources and points shared in common with other recovery plans are identified in the implementation section of this plan.
Threats to the taxon

Habitat loss
Since early settlement, the nesting distribution of Christmas Island Frigatebirds has been fragmented by human development resulting in the three colonies that remain today. Early accounts suggest that the shore terrace of Flying Fish Cove may once have been their main breeding area (Andrews 1900, Gibson-Hill 1947, 1949, Stokes 1988) and they probably had an almost continuous nesting distribution along the north-eastern coast from Margaret Beaches to North East Point, and a separate colony in the sheltered area where the golf course colony is now situated (Figure 1). During the early years of human settlement, much of the habitat of Christmas Island Frigatebirds in Flying Fish Cove and Settlement was cleared. Stokes (1988) estimated that approximately 90ha of breeding habitat had been cleared since settlement.

Crazy Ants
The exotic invasive yellow crazy ant (Anoplolepis gracilipes) arrived on Christmas Island more than