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can be tackled first in their area – either land jurisdiction or area of expertise.

3.3  Planning links
This threat abatement plan will tie in with other complementary planning processes and strategies for threat abatement and threatened species recovery. These will include other threat abatement plans where there is a clear overlap in issues (for example the Threat abatement plan for predation by the European red fox (DEWHA 2008c), recovery plans and the Threatened Species Strategy. The intersection between recovery plans and threat abatement plans is where there are threats to a native species which need to be addressed on a broader scale than on an individual species level or group of species level (where there are regional recovery plans). An example of this is the development of broad-scale baits for feral cats.
This threat abatement plan can also provide the basis to develop targets or a source of justification for funding of scientific research or management actions.

3.4  Evaluating implementation of the plan
It may be difficult to assess directly the effectiveness of the plan in abating the impacts of feral cats on Australia's biodiversity. However, performance indicators have been provided against each of the objectives to provide an indication of the level of threat abatement that has been achieved.
Measurements in the improvement of threatened species populations or conditions can be monitored particularly where the primary threat is feral cat predation. However, in many situations, feral cat management is only an element of a complete recovery plan so being able to accurately assess impact of feral cat control may be difficult. Individual feral cat control programs with comprehensive monitoring may be able to see a recovery in the threatened species populations.

3.5  Threatened species adversely impacted by feral cats
Appendix A lists threatened species that are known to, or may, be adversely affected by predation by feral cats. The threatened species included are listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) or, in the case of mammals, identified as being threatened by feral cat predation in The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 (Woinarski et al. 2014). Information for species listed under the EPBC Act is available from the Species Profile and Threats Database: http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/sprat.pl.

Appendix A:  Species affected by feral cats
Table A1 outlines the various statuses of mammals which may be affected by feral cats and the relative risk of feral cat predation on those species. These species were determined from The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 (Woinarski et al. 2014) and from profiles which identified predation by feral cats as a threatening process in the Australian Government's Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) (Department of the Environment, 2015). The Action