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range of pressures impact threatened species in the Norfolk Island Group. These pressures often interact with one another and may cause cascading and compounding effects that impact multiple threatened species. One such major pressure confirmed by these models is the reduction in the extent and condition of Norfolk Island's forests and Phillip Island's native vegetation, which is driven by a variety of factors (such as past clearing and grazing, species loss, and weed invasion) and interacts with other significant pressures including the effects of feral animals and a changing climate. These models highlight the importance of restoration of native vegetation as a central component of future conservation efforts, but also the necessity of managing other pressures such as controlling feral animal species like rats, which exert a pressure on many threatened flora and fauna.

4.1.2        Hierarchy of outcomes
A hierarchy of outcomes (see also Figure 5) provides long-term reference points for the plan as well as outcomes to be achieved during the life of the plan:
 1.         A Vision for restoration of the island's biodiversity and ecosystems provides the broad context:
   By 2050, the Norfolk Island Group will have resilient ecosystems that hold self-sustaining populations of all native species.
   While achieving that vision is beyond both the timespan and scope of this ten-year species recovery plan (it will require more than a decade and conservation efforts that go beyond recovery of terrestrial threatened species), it provides a broad reference point for the plan.
 1.         Contributing to the realisation of that vision is a series of more specific long-term goals:
   Native species
          By 2045, populations of all native species are secure and self-sustaining, and species currently restricted to Phillip Island (that previously occurred on Norfolk Island) are back in the wild on Norfolk Island.
   Plant communities
          By 2045, native vegetation has been re-established across the islands with a range and area of coverage sufficient for all 14 native plant communities on Norfolk Island (Table 13) and all six native plant communities on Phillip Island (Table 15) to be well represented, self-sustaining, and present in sufficient amounts and appropriate locations and configurations to provide habitat to support native species.
   Invasive species
          By 2040, all invasive species in the Norfolk Island Group have been eradicated or controlled to sustainable levels required to achieve other goals.
   These long-term goals align closely with the scope of this recovery plan, but their achievement is likely beyond the ten-year timespan of the current plan. They represent the outcomes to which subsequent recovery plans should aspire, provide specific reference points for the current plan, and highlight that the next decade is a step in a longer journey.
   With the two higher levels of the hierarchy