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research into barriers for pig control                             $200,000 including community engagement.                                                                                                                             Estimated $200,000 over whole of TAP (nationally; 5 years).
Prioritisation of pig control areas                                       $100,000 for initial regional reviews of areas per state/territory.                                                                                                  Estimated $800,000 plus additional funding for finer scale prioritisation over whole of TAP (nationally; 5 years).
Development of coordinated reporting mechanisms                           $50,000 per state/territory.                                                                                                                                         Estimated $300,000 over whole of TAP (nationally; 5 years).
Development of management plans                                           $10,000 for each regional plan.                                                                                                                                      Estimated $200,000 for 20 regions.
Community education                                                       $200,000 per state/territory for general promotion per year.  This amount may decline as material can be reused and education levels rise.                           Estimated $1.2 million per state/territory over 5 years.
Training                                                                  $10,000 to $100,000 to develop different materials and programs.                                                                                                     Estimated $250,000 over whole of TAP (nationally; 5 years).
                                                                          $2,000 to $100,000 for delivery.                                                                                                                                     Estimated over $300,000 over whole of TAP (nationally; 5 years).

This threat abatement plan provides a framework for undertaking targeted priority actions. Budgetary and other constraints may affect the achievement of the objectives of this plan, and as knowledge changes, proposed actions may need to be modified over the life of the plan. Australian Government funds may be available to implement key national environmental priorities, such as relevant actions listed in this plan and actions identified in regional natural resource management plans.

3.3 Evaluating implementation of the plan
In many situations it may be difficult to assess directly the effectiveness of the plan in abating the impacts of feral pigs on Australia's biodiversity. However, performance indicators have been provided against each of the objectives to provide an indication of the level of threat abatement that has been achieved.

Measurements in the improvement of threatened species populations or conditions can be monitored, particularly where the primary threat is feral pig predation (e.g. percentage of marine turtle nests not preyed upon and hatching successfully). However, in many situations, feral pig management is only an element of a complete recovery plan, so being able to accurately assess impact of feral pig control may be difficult. Individual feral pig control programs with comprehensive monitoring may be able to record recoveries in threatened species populations.

Glossary
EPBC Act                         The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999,
                                 the Australian Government's environment legislation.
Key threatening process          A threatening process listed under the EPBC Act that meets any of the following criteria:

                                       * could cause a native species or an ecological community to become eligible for listing in any category, other than conservation dependent

                                       * could cause a listed threatened species or a listed threatened ecological community to become eligible to be listed in another category representing a higher degree of endangerment

                                       * adversely affects two or more listed threatened species (other than