Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00287:reg:3:p78
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00287
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 78/276)
Character Range: 310021–312999

threat. As a result, actions to address climate change impacts were not prioritised during implementation of the plan. As it is now a current threat, much more research, planning and management remains to be done.

Objective 8: To assess the appropriateness of reintroducing locally extinct fauna after rodents have been controlled or locally eradicated

Management actions

    * Information was collated on candidate species that could be considered.

Outcome

There has been little progress against this objective beyond collating information. Detailed assessments of feasibility and appropriateness remain to be completed. A strategy is also required to identify the role of Phillip Island in re-establishing populations. The objective in the 2010 plan focused on fauna, but flora must also be included when considering reintroductions and insurance populations.

3.1.2        Progress in delivering recovery actions
A review of individual actions listed in the 2010 plan revealed that 60% of actions had been initiated; most were part completed or underway and ongoing. A large proportion of actions (40%) had not been started (Table 22). The main reasons identified for actions not being achieved were that actions were too ambitious to be completed in the time available or had insufficient resources.
Table 22 Summary of actions completed
Status                Proportion
Completed             13.3%
Part completed        13.3%
Underway and ongoing  33.3%
Not started           40%

Some of the actions that had not been started related to provision of advice and incentives to the public. For example, advice and support in undertaking weed control had not been provided to landholders, and there had not been any financial incentives for private landholders to restore native vegetation. However, detailed guidance was provided on cultivation of native plants.
Another gap was in the delivery of actions relating to strategies and plans. Norfolk Island National Park had not developed or reviewed weed control strategies, there was a lack of a coordinated strategy behind the management of invasive birds, and a biosecurity plan for Phillip Island and Nepean Island was still to be finalised. Nevertheless, some important progress had been made in this area, notably the completion by NIRC of a pest management strategy and a strategic review and update of Plans of Management for public reserves. A climate change strategy was produced for Norfolk Island National Park and Botanic Garden in 2011 (Director of National Parks 2011).

3.1.3        Conclusions
The 2010 recovery plan was an important document that set a relevant direction for and helped to facilitate conservation on the islands, and a great deal was achieved during the decade that it was in force. It fell short of achieving some objectives simply because they were too ambitious to complete in one decade. There were also some additional contributing factors that limited effectiveness of delivery,