Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747:reg:9:p13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 13/20)
Character Range: 362089–372837

2.1 Understand motivations and provide incentives for land managers to include feral cat management into standard land management for biodiversity outcomes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  1.7. Consider the opportunities of environmental markets for land managers who undertake feral cat control at sites of high biodiversity value
Action 2.2 Provide information, in various media and through training, on best practice methods and standard operating procedures for controlling and monitoring feral cats                                                                                                                                                                                                                         2.7. Maintain the national Feral Cat Taskforce as a primary mechanism to help coordinate the management of feral cats across jurisdictions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.8. Create a 'practitioner network', or regional networks, for First Nations groups, regional natural resource management organisations, community groups, individual landholders, agencies and researchers
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.9. Support land managers to plan for and implement effective feral cat control programs by improving guidance about which control option(s) are most appropriate
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.10. Support First Nations ranger groups to control feral cats
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.11. Maintain, enhance and update as required CoPs/SoPs, coordinated across jurisdictions
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.12. Improve monitoring attached to feral cat control programs
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.13. Establish and maintain national databases for collating details of feral cat control programs, monitoring data and outcomes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.14. Establish and maintain national databases on fundamental information about feral cats
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.15. Engage and communicate with the broader public
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.16. Maintain and increase broad public support for improved cat management for conservation, cat welfare, human and wildlife health, and livestock production outcomes
Action 2.3 Ensure areas prioritized for feral cat management across to Australia maximize benefits to biodiversity at a local, regional and national level                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          2.1. Prioritise cat-free islands on which surveillance monitoring for cat incursions should be established
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.2. Prioritise islands for feral cat eradication, to protect cat-susceptible species and potentially support island translocations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.3. Prioritise subregions (including islands) for new cat-free haven creation, to support translocations of extremely and highly cat-susceptible mammals and potentially species from other groups
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.4. Prioritise sites for intensive cat control to protect species of moderate to high cat-susceptibility that exist as remnant populations
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.5. Prioritise areas for intensive, holistic management of fire, grazing, and rabbits, to protect all native species
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    2.6. Prioritise areas for managing feral (and pet) cats living near human habitation and infrastructure
Action 2.4 Governments agree to consistent legislation that identifies feral cats as a pest, has requirements for control, and identifies control techniques that may be used                                                                                                                                                                                                                       1.1. Enhance harmonisation across government legislation that identifies feral cats as a pest, requires feral cats to be controlled, and identifies control techniques
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1.2. Enhance consistency across state and territory legislation for companion animals, including mandating the principles of responsible pet cat ownership
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1.3. Improve regulatory and policy settings to reduce pet cat impacts
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1.4. Harmonise relevant legislation or regulations across governments to prevent or reduce the likelihood