Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00635:reg:1:p18
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00635
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1 (pt 18/23)
Character Range: 80157–84289

3      Year 4  Year 5  Total
Construct a spatial prioritisation model to determine suitable sites for habitat protection and restoration   50      -           -       -       -      50
Protect high quality/priority regent honeyeater habitat                                                       115     115         115     115     115    575
Rehabilitate degraded areas that were previously used.                                                        40      40          40      40      40     200
Habitat patches or corridors are enhanced.                                                                    100     100         100     100     100    500
Noisy miner control actions undertaken.                                                                       50      50          10      40      40     190
Develop a Population Response Model for regent honeyeaters.                                                   50      5           5       5       5      70
Maintain captive population.                                                                                  40      190         40      190     40     500
Design a range-wide monitoring program.                                                                       100     -           -       -       -      100
Trend analysis performed on long-term monitoring data.                                                        50      -           -       -       -      50
Determine contemporary causes of breeding success/failure at key sites.                                       50      50          50      50      50     250
Update genetic information on regent honeyeater population                                                    75      -             -       -     -      75
Implement a range-wide monitoring program.                                                                    -       60          60      60      60     240
Implement a long term regent honeyeater monitoring program at key sites                                       30      30          30      30      30     150
Undertake intensive nest monitoring to evaluate breeding success at key sites.                                50      -           -       -       -      50
Maintain and support regent honeyeater operations groups.                                                     25      25          25      25      25     125
Total                                                                                                          825     665        475      655    505    3,125

9 Effects on other native species and biodiversity benefits
Through the efforts of the Recovery Team and the extensive efforts of individuals and community organisations, the regent honeyeater has become a "flagship" species for conservation issues in the box-ironbark forests and woodlands, spotted gum-ironbark forests and coastal swamp mahogany forests of south-east Australia.
Rehabilitation work undertaken as part of the 1999-2003 Recovery Plan of forest and woodland remnants has been shown to benefit other threatened and declining woodland species. Sightings of 15 threatened or declining bird species and two threatened mammals have been recorded at Lurg Hills, Victoria, a site replanted to provide habitat for regent honeyeaters (Thomas, 2009).
Threatened Ecological Communities listed under the EPBC Act that are of importance to regent honeyeaters include: White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grasslands; and the Grey Box Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of south-eastern Australia.

10 Social and economic considerations
The major economic impact of this recovery plan will be on those who require approval to remove or modify regent honeyeater habitat and are prevented from doing so, or are required to modify their proposal by a consent authority. This may include increased costs due to the requirement to provide offset funding for research, to secure or rehabilitate habitat, or for other threat mitigation work. Any further loss of forest and woodland habitat from areas known or likely to contain regent honeyeaters