Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00432:reg:6:p17
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00432
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 17/20)
Character Range: 162906–167911

potential for stewardship payments to reduce water points or water availability to compensate for associated stocking reductions.
5n      Develop guidelines for stocking levels based on stocking levels at grazed sites where the bilby has persisted.                                                                                                                          For sites proposed or under grazing. Currently sites identified by partners include Tanami Downs (NT), Yawinya (WA), Nyangumarta (WA).                                                                                                                                                                                                                               State and territory government conservation agencies.
5o      Trial reduction in stock grazing intensity in areas of potential habitat adjacent to bilby sites, to encourage bilby expansion. Include predator management in trials where appropriate.                                                Sites to be determined by land managers in consultation with recovery team science subcommittee.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     State and territory government conservation agencies in collaboration with pastoral land managers.
5p      Liaise with and provide information and advice to pastoral companies and other land managers about opportunities to support management to increase bilby population size and resilience on pastoral and other privately managed lands.  Survey and liaison areas in Western Queensland, Northern Territory, and Western Australia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           State and territory government conservation agencies, relevant NRM organisations, pastoral land managers.
5q      Define and promote tolerable grazing levels of introduced herbivores, relative to suitable habitat, fire, predators and water points.                                                                                                   Where applicable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Recovery team science subcommittee, state and territory government conservation agencies.
5r      Quantify the effect of grazing on bilby population size and persistence. Compare bilby abundance near and remote from grazing pressure under different grazing intensities (to determine thresholds of acceptable grazing).             Where applicable.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Recovery team science subcommittee.

6.3.6             On-ground Strategy: Metapopulation management
This strategy includes actions to manage the Greater Bilby metapopulation that maintains genetic diversity, maintains evolutionary potential, reintroduces the species to sites within its former range, and insures against extinction in the wild (Table 8). Significantly growing the size of the Greater Bilby population is likely to be required to effectively recover the Greater Bilby in the longer term. Accordingly, opportunities to grow the population size, whilst meeting other objectives should not be discounted on the basis of this plan.
The metapopulation will be managed at three levels with each playing a different role in achieving the metapopulation goals:
    * Captive management: receives and intensively manages genetically valuable individuals and amplifies them for distribution to fenced–wild and wild sites; engage in education and advocacy.
    * Fenced wild management: provides long-term of permanent sites supporting bilbies as part of the managed metapopulation; provides a source of individuals for dispersal to wild and to other fenced-wild sites.
    * Wild management: provides long-term or permanent sites supporting bilbies as part of the managed metapopulation; acts as a source of wild founders for the managed metapopulation; sites receive bilbies generated through the managed metapopulation to support viability.
While not specifically identified as an action, it is important that existing traditional