Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00287:reg:3:p89
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00287
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 89/276)
Character Range: 352407–361320

Develop and implement a comprehensive rodent control plan to deliver effective targeted control of rodents using appropriate methods, including trials of new methods.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * Explore the possibility of making rodent baits locally (solving issues surrounding bait importation).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * Introduce technologies such as thermal surveys to supplement existing monitoring methods.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * Establish experimental fenced areas excluding rats and cats.
Control of feral chickens                                                      * Develop and implement a comprehensive invasive bird control program that enables effective targeted control of chickens.
Control of free-roaming cats                                                   * Develop and implement a comprehensive island-wide cat management action plan, enabling effective targeted control of cats using appropriate methods, including trials of new techniques.
                                                                               * Coordinate development and delivery of cat and rodent control plans.
                                                                               * Identify and implement a strategy for improved domestic cat management which includes effecting legislative change regarding domestic cats.
                                                                               * Establish a domestic animal pound that charges to retrieve roaming cats that have been caught.
                                                                               * Establish an experimental fenced area excluding rats and cats.
Control of crimson rosellas                                                    * Develop and implement a comprehensive invasive bird control program that includes a strategic island-wide approach to rosella culling.
Control of swamphens                                                           * Develop and implement a comprehensive invasive bird control program that includes, at a minimum, maintaining the swamphen shooting regime on Phillip Island (at 2020–21 levels or higher) and monthly control works focused on the source population on Norfolk Island.
Eradication of Argentine ants                                                  * Continue to implement the Argentine ant Eradication Strategy Norfolk Island 2021–2026 (Hoffman 2020).
Pathogen control                                                           Control of Phytophthora cinnamomi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  * Maintain hygiene stations in the national park and educate people on importance of minimising the movement of soil and infected equipment.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * Research effects on native species.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * Develop and implement a comprehensive management plan for the island.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * Undertake surveys to confirm distribution of Phytophthora spp. if necessary.
Restoration of native vegetation                                           Restoration of native vegetation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               This management program addresses the need to conserve and enhance the habitat critical for survival of the threatened species under this plan. It includes specific actions to propagate and plant threatened plant species.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Actions to restore native plant communities:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * Develop and implement a strategic plan for restoration of native vegetation, following the principles of the National Restoration Standards (SERA 2017), with targets for different areas and communities. The strategic plan should aim for a comprehensive, adequate, functionally connected, resilient and representative network of sites, and provide information on species population viability and ecological thresholds.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              * The practical management required will include the following coordinated activities:
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Protection of all existing native vegetation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Seed collection
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Propagation (including expansion of nursery facilities on both Norfolk and Phillip Islands)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Revegetation (including through establishment of new areas of