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10,000

  We have used number of active burrows as a surrogate for number of mature individuals. Although burrows may be occupied by 1-10 individuals, each burrow normally only contains 1 or 2 mature animals (e.g., a male who has just established a new burrow, a female and her offspring who is visited by a male who roams between several burrows, or a stable breeding pair and their offspring). We have taken a conservative approach in suggesting that an estimate of 10,000 active burrows will indicate a population size of at least 10,000 mature individuals.

  Cultural Objective (and performance criteria)
■  Traditional Ecological Knowledge about Tjakura remains strong

    – PC5: In 2033 Tjakura cultural sites, stories and songs and ceremonies are known, documented and maintained across the three States where Tjakura occurs.
  Recovery Strategies
  The actions required to meet the conservation objectives are grouped into nine Strategies:

■  Document and support cultural knowledge and practices: Recognise culture is at the heart of conservation and support projects to record Traditional Ecological Knowledge and continue to engage in cultural practices.
■  Motivate and educate: Increase the motivation to manage Tjakura through activities that promote its cultural and conservation significance and build its charisma and profile amongst the general public, government and scientists to ensure support for the species.
■  Survey new areas: Establish current status by conducting additional surveys and consultation (especially around the edge of the range and in key gaps) to determine current distribution and number of subpopulations and identify where management is required.
■  Fire management: Protect populations from fire by including specific targeted burns around main burrow areas in annual burning plans and implementing these and broader scale burns in surrounding areas to reduce the chance of wildfire affecting burrows.
■  Predator management: Conduct strategic predator control at selected, accessible sites, particularly after a site has been burnt.
■  Protect Tjakura habitat from other human disturbances: Protect Tjakura habitat from the impacts of mining, tourism, other infrastructure development, pastoralism, poaching and over-harvesting.
■  Address new and emerging threats: Investigate and address any additional threats to Tjakura populations including climate change, disease outbreaks and weeds.
■  Monitor populations: Establish monitoring at key subpopulations across a geographical spread in NT, WA and SA.
■  Share information: Report successes and failures back to other stakeholders to continually refine management techniques and learn from and encourage each other.

  Each of the nine strategies has a specific aim, a list of actions required to achieve the aim, and a set of
  desired outputs, outcomes and measurable indicators.
  *Indicators in bold are considered to be the highest priority measures to assess the success of the Recovery Program.

 Figure 4. How our strategies will help us