Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747:reg:4:p71
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 71/80)
Character Range: 265471–272107

groups                                                                                                                                                  Starting immediately
                                                                                                                                                                * Manage fire to avoid extensive, severe fire events that simplify the structure of the ground layer over large areas.
                                                                                                                                                                * Consider the likely interactions of fire with cats (their density, activity, impacts) in fire management plans.
                                                                                                                                                                * After extensive and/or severe fire, consider the need for post-fire feral cat control (such as baiting, shooting).
                                                                                                                                                                * When post-fire feral cat baiting occurs, monitor the effect on feral cats and their impacts.
                                                                                                                                                                * Monitor the effects of fire management on cats, and native species, at representative sites.
                                                                                                                                                           Where possible, management should include priority areas identified in Action 2.5.
8.3                                                                                                                                                        Manage grazing pressure to retain habitat complexity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            High       Low (modification of existing grazing management funding and practice)  Commonwealth, state and territory governments; NGOs, Traditional Owners and First Nations ranger groups; pastoralists                                                                                                                                    Starting in the period 2024-2029.
                                                                                                                                                                * Manage grazing (from livestock and feral herbivores) to maintain structural complexity of the ground layer, particularly in likely refuge areas such as drainage lines, riparian areas, and patches of denser vegetation.
                                                                                                                                                                * Monitor the effects of grazing management on cats, and native species, at representative sites.
                                                                                                                                                           Where possible, management should include priority areas identified in Action 2.5.
Support management
8.4                                                                                                                                                        Habitat complexity: Develop habitat-specific recommendations for fire patterns to aim for during prescribed burning, and thresholds of introduced herbivore grazing, that will minimise cat impacts. This will be informed by research (Objective 3) including:                                                                                                                                                  Very High  Medium                                                                  Researchers; state and territory governments; state and national farm organisations; applicable rural research and development corporations (e.g. Meat and Livestock Australia); pastoralists; NGOs; Traditional Owners and First Nations ranger groups  Starting immediately
                                                                                                                                                                * Population-level and individual-level studies of how fire patterns and grazing influences vulnerability to cats, and impacts of cats, in different biomes, especially those where there has been less research on this issue (e.g. deserts, wetter/more complex vegetation types such as wet forests).
                                                                                                                                                                * How increasing fire size and severity, and fire frequency, affects the relative mortality of cats and their prey, and the impacts of predation.
                                                                                                                                                                * How cat behaviour and impacts are affected by First Nations cultural fire practices.
                                                                                                                                                                * Whether baiting/shooting soon after fire is an effective way to dampen feral cat impacts and support native species to recover.
Enhance knowledge
8.5                                                                                                                                                        Further refine understanding of apex predator management - dingoes: Carry out further research to evaluate if / how dingo management affects feral cat abundance and impacts, and the potential consequences of such effects on threatened species and ecosystem resilience, and, where relevant, develop costed options for landholders at regional scale.                                                      Very High  Very High                                                               Researchers; state and territory governments; applicable rural research and development corporations (e.g. Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA)); state and national farm organisations; pastoralists, NGOs;