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and emerging threats 33
    Strategy 8: Monitor Tjakura populations 34
    Strategy 9: Share information 38
Cost and Timeframe of the Recovery Plan 39
Research Priorities 42
Fire: 42
Predators: 42
References 43

 Figures

  Figure 1. The Great Desert Skink is recognised internationally as a Vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List. 7
  Figure 2. The indicative distribution of the Great Desert Skink 9
  Figure 3. Example of monitoring data, from Voyages Ayers Rock Resort (Desert Wildlife Services 2021). 19 Figure 4. How our strategies will help us meet our
  conservation objectives for Tjakura recovery. 21
  Figure 5. Tjakura drawing by Justin from
  Mutijulu School 23
  Figure 6. Priority survey areas to determine the distribution of Tjakura in Australia. 26
  Figure 7. Example of a data sheet used by Desert Rangers to monitor the Great Desert Skink. 36
  Figure 8. Example of a Fulcrum sequence for burrow monitoring (Desert Rangers use Fulcrum,
  a field data collection application to support better conservation efforts). 37

 Tables

  Table 1. Sites where the Great Desert Skink is known to occur as of 2022. 10
  Table 2. Summary of Tjakura monitoring
  programs 19
  Table 3. Cost of achieving the actions 40

 Photographs

  Photograph 1. Tjakura Recovery Plan workshop at Wiluna, October 2021. 4
  Photograph 2. On country fire planning to protect Tjakura workshop, Punmu, October 2015. 4
  Photograph 3. Kiwirrkurra Elder Walimpirri Tjapaltjari holding a tjulyulka (night skink) and a Tjalapa (Pintupi word for Great Desert Skink) to show the difference in size between the two closely related species.              5
  Photograph 4. A Tjakura at the entrance to
  its burrow 5
  Photograph 5. Wati Tjakura sculpture featured in Aralya Project catalogue. 6
  Photograph 6. Tjalapa painting by John
  Tjupurrula West 6
  Photograph 7. Steve McAlpin observing Tjakura 8
  Photograph 8. Sandplain habitat dominated by Hard Spinifex (Triodia basedowii) with mixed Acacias and other shrubs on the Kiwirrkurra IPA in WA.              11
  Photograph 9. Semi-saline Spinifex Sandplain habitat dominated by Soft Spinifex (Triodia pungens) and Tea Tree (Melaleuca glomerata) on Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in NT.              12
  Photograph 10. Open mulga woodland habitat with an understorey of Woolybutt grass (Eragrostis eriopoda) with scattered Eremophila gilesii on the
  Watarru IPA in SA. 12
  Photograph 11. Tjakura are one of the few reptile species in the world that care for their young. 14
  Photograph 12. A feral cat on caught on remote camera with a Tjakura in its mouth. 16
  Photograph 13. Payu West teaching her nieces and granddaughters about Tjalapa on the
  Kiwirrkurra IPA. 24
  Photograph 14. Mapping historical Tjakura locations from senior knowledge holders who grew up in
  pre-contact time. 25
  Photograph 15. Conducting burning to protect Tjakura sites on a cold winter night when fires are easiest