Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00635:reg:1:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00635
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 1 (pt 2/23)
Character Range: 7012–10087

and trend have been established for the regent honeyeater, and the population is increasing.
    * There has been an increase in the area of regent honeyeater habitat protected and restored throughout the species' range.
    * The captive population, including its genetic diversity, has been effectively maintained and there have been successful releases into the wild population.
    * Understanding of the species' ecology has increased, in particular knowledge of movement patterns, habitat use and post-breeding dispersal.
    * There is participation by key stakeholders and the public in recovery efforts and monitoring.

Criteria for failure:
This recovery plan will be deemed to have failed if, within 10 years, the following have occurred:
    * Population estimates and trends have not been determined or are unreliable.
    * Regent honeyeaters have not increased in numbers.
    * Key regent honeyeater sites have not increased in quality and extent.
    * Understanding of the species' ecology, in particular knowledge of movement patterns, habitat use and post-breeding dispersal, has not improved.
    * The health and genetic diversity of the captive population have not been maintained, and releases into the wild population have been unsuccessful.

2 Introduction
This document constitutes the National Recovery Plan for the Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia). The plan considers the conservation requirements of the species across its range and identifies the actions that need to be taken to improve the species' long-term viability in nature. This recovery plan is a revision of the 1999-2003 Regent Honeyeater Recovery Plan (Menkhorst et al., 1999). The 1999-2003 Recovery Plan was reviewed by the Regent Honeyeater Recovery Team in 2012. The review concluded that the previous plan resulted in: 1) increased protection of regent honeyeater habitat; 2) extensive restoration plantings in key regent honeyeater breeding areas; 3) the establishment of a successful captive breeding program; and 4) increased knowledge of regent honeyeater ecology. However, despite the conservation gains made for the regent honeyeater as a result of the implementation of the 1999-2003 Recovery Plan, the review concluded that all key threats to regent honeyeaters remained and that there had been no improvement in the species conservation status (Regent Honeyeater Recovery Team, unpublished report). The review recommended that future recovery actions focus on a landscape approach to habitat protection and regeneration, coupled with ongoing releases of captive birds to bolster the wild population until such time as the wild population became self-sustaining (and while other threat mitigation such as habitat restoration took effect).
The regent honeyeater has recently been upgraded to Critically Endangered on the list of threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.    The species is believed to have undergone a population decline of > 80% within three generations (Garnett et al., 2011). The probable major