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Management and Investment Framework in 2014 (Project Dieback, 2014). As part of the framework an indicative top 100 priority protection areas were identified to assist in prioritising investment and management.

           This framework can be applied nationally, with the value of assets at risk determining the number of priority protection areas. Prioritising the most important areas which offer the greatest chance of successful disease control or mitigation will maximise current and future Phytophthora dieback investment.

           Table 1: Objective 1 actions

Action                                                                                                                               Responsibility                                              Priority             Time frame    Outcomes                                                                                                                                              Estimate of resources required
Action 1.1                                                                                                                           Australian Government and state and territory governments   High priority        Medium term   Identification and prioritisation of flora, fauna and ecological communities at risk.                                                                 $75,000 for a 3–6 month project to review recovery plans and conservation advices to develop a report providing a prioritised list of species and communities in need of protection.

Identify impacts and prioritise flora, fauna and communities at risk to inform Phytophthora dieback management.                                                                                                                     Reviews of Commonwealth recovery plans and conservation advices consider the threat of Phytophthora dieback.
Action 1.2                                                                                                                           Australian Government and state and territory governments   Very high priority   Short term    Spatial identification of areas at risk of infection and communication of these areas to the community through preparation of:                        $150,000 plus in kind support for provision of data for a 6–12 month project to design a model that can draw on mapping layers to create risk maps for Phytophthora species.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          This may be done best in association with state departments using finer detailed mapping (e.g. soil and vegetation types) to enable maps to be produced that are of a finer resolution than current mapping.
Identify areas at risk of infection spatially to generate lists                                                                                                                                                                      •    maps of potential national distribution of Phytophthora species
of biodiversity assets vulnerable to Phytophthora dieback— develop or use existing prioritisation frameworks.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     •    maps of priority biodiversity assets.
Action 1.3                                                                                                                           Australian Government and state, territory                  Very high priority   Medium term   Revision and production of local-scale maps of priority biodiversity assets and protection areas.                                                     $30,000 for a 2–3 month project to develop methodology.
                                                                                                                                     and local governments
Identify priority biodiversity assets and areas for protection at a local scale—develop or use existing prioritisation frameworks.                                                                                                  Use of the Department's mapping tools to identify areas that are matters of national environmental significance requiring protection or management.   $300,000 shared between jurisdictions for 3–12 months per jurisdiction, depending on the number of priority areas. Work would be best done in conjunction with the mapping above.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Note that this is not the detailed mapping requiring on-ground surveying.

Action                                                                                                                                                                      Responsibility                                                                                               Priority             Time frame   Outcomes                                                                                                                                                   Estimate of resources required
Action 1.4                                                                                                                                                                  Australian Government and state, territory and local governments; natural resource management (NRM) bodies   Very high priority   Ongoing      Annual monitoring