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cultural and conservation significance and build its charisma and profile amongst the general public, government and scientists to ensure support for the species.

   ■  SURVEY NEW AREAS: Establish current status by conducting additional surveys and consultation (especially around the edge of the range and in key gaps) to determine current distribution and number of subpopulations and identify where management is required.

   ■  FIRE MANAGEMENT: Protect populations from fire by including specific targeted burns around main burrow areas in annual burning plans, and implementing these and broader scale burns in surrounding areas to reduce the chance of wildfire affecting burrows.

   ■  PREDATOR MANAGEMENT: Conduct strategic predator control at selected, accessible sites, particularly if sites get burnt.

   ■ PROTECT TJAKURA HABITAT FROM OTHER HUMAN DISTRUBANCES: Protect
   Tjakura habitat from the impacts of mining, tourism, other infrastructure development, pastoralism, poaching and over-harvesting.

   ■  ADDRESS NEW AND EMERGING THREATS: Investigate and address any additional threats to Tjakura populations including climate change, disease outbreaks and weeds.

   ■  MONITOR POPULATIONS: Establish monitoring at key populations across a geographical spread of sites in NT, WA and SA.

   ■  SHARE INFORMATION: Report successes and failures back to other stakeholders to continually refine management techniques and learn from and encourage each other.

  Each of the nine strategies have a specific aim, a list of actions required to achieve the aim, and a set of desired outputs, outcomes and measurable indicators.

Table of Contents

Summary 3
Background 3
Purpose of this Plan 3
How we made this plan 4
Species Description – what is Tjakura 5
Cultural Significance 6
Conservation Status 7
Where does Tjakura live? 7
Historical distribution 7
Current distribution 8
Habitat 11
Ecology 13
Ecosystem Function of Tjakura 14
Main Threats 15
Unmanaged Fire 15
Predation 15
Other Threats – Disturbance from Development 16
Other Threats - Weeds 17
Other threats – Feral Herbivores 17
Other Threats - Overharvesting 17
Other Threats – Climate Change 17
Other Threats – Loss of knowledge, capacity and motivation to manage country 17
Population Size and Trends 18
Population Size 18
  Population Trends 18
Recovery 20
Our Shared Vision: 20
Overall Goal 20
Conservation Objectives (and performance criteria) 20
Cultural Objective (and performance criteria) 20
Recovery Strategies 20
    Strategy 1: Document and support cultural knowledge and pracitces 22
    Strategy 2: Motivate and educate 23
    Strategy 3: Survey new areas 25
    Strategy 4: Fire Management 28
    Strategy 5: Project Management 30
    Strategy 6: Protect from other disturbances 32
    Strategy 7: Address new and emerging threats 33
    Strategy 8: Monitor Tjakura populations 34
    Strategy 9: Share information 38
Cost and Timeframe of the Recovery Plan 39
Research Priorities 42
Fire: 42
Predators: 42
References 43

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