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increasing the area protected in formal reservations and other conservation zoning areas
                                Research / Information
                                    1. Identify key patches that make a major contribution to the biodiversity, structural integrity and ecosystem functioning of Littoral Rainforest, and would benefit from the implementation of formal conservation arrangements, increased reservation status or conservation zoning.

                                    2. Identify patches that have the potential to be linked to other patches through the establishment of wildlife corridors.

Action 3.1                          3. Prioritise patches for conservation activities or incorporation into new reserves.
High priority
                                On-ground
                                   d.    Increase protection of Littoral Rainforest through the incorporation of key patches into formal reserve networks or conservation zones.

                                   e.    Increase protection of patches that have a key role in landscape connectivity.

                                   f.      Support local councils to include Littoral Rainforest in conservation zones.

                                     Develop and implement stewardship mechanisms for private land tenures
                                     Research / Information
                                         1. Identify key patches that could benefit from the implementation of stewardship mechanisms, including patches that have the potential to form wildlife corridors, to increase protection and/or management of Littoral Rainforest on private land.
Action 3.2
High priority                        On-ground
                                        b.    Implement mechanisms, such as conservation covenants, for the long term protection and management of identified high quality patches and the restoration of lower quality patches.

                                        c.    Identify and implement alternative stewardship-style management agreements, like trust funds provided from offsetting arrangements with industry or development organisations.
                                     Develop and implement best practice guidelines for restoration
                                     Research / Information
                                         1. Develop Best Practice Guidelines, based on the the Australian Standard for Ecological Restoration (McDonald et al. 2016) and informed by the outcomes of Actions 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, that provide a methodology for the rehabilitation/restoration of Littoral Rainforest, including strategies to:
                                                  + plant appropriate vegetation
                                                  + improve condition and complexity
                                                  + restore degraded patches
                                                  + extend existing patches
                                                  + establish natural buffers
Action 3.3                                        + improve connectivity
Medium priority                                   + manage and/or reduce threats
                                                  + prioritise investment at both a local and national scale.

                                     On-ground
                                         1. Implement strategies from the Best Practice Guidelines to restore patches of Littoral Rainforest, and enhance degraded patches so that they meet the condition criteria for the ecological community, or create buffer zones to protect and extend existing patches.

                                         2. Collect and store seeds in appropriate regional seedbanks to ensure the long term conservation of key species.

                                         3. Propagate seeds of key species for use in restoration plantings.
                                           * The amount of Littoral Rainforest formally protected in reservation systems is increased and/or protection measures within existing reservations are improved.

                                           * The amount of Littoral Rainforest protected on private land through conservation covenants, zoning or other stewardship mechanisms, is increased.

                                           * Best practice guidelines for the restoration of Littoral Rainforest are being implemented across the range of the