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made by the responsible organisations, in consultation with key partners and the recovery team, to ensure any changes are consistent with and progress the Recovery Plan objectives. Because actions are to be implemented adaptively, priority, timing and cost estimates may change during implementation. It is the responsibility of organisations implementing actions to report on implementation through the proposed governance and reporting structure.
Implementing this Plan is subject to budgetary and other resource opportunities and constraints affecting the key stakeholders. The cost of implementing this Plan should, where possible, be incorporated into the core business expenditure of the affected organisations and through additional funds obtained for the explicit purpose of implementing this Recovery Plan. Some actions, or parts of actions, are being implemented through other Leadbeater's possum conservation efforts (see Section 7.1 Context). Additional investment in this Recovery Plan will augment these and ensure coordination of effort to meet plan objectives. Other proposed actions are new and funding opportunities are yet to be secured.
The implementation costs in Table 9 are indicative only and are based on estimates from comparable actions undertaken or underway as part of the ongoing Leadbeater's possum conservation effort. Costs also draw upon the relative indicative costs identified by the LPAG (2014a). It is not practical at this point to provide meaningful costing figures for actions beyond year five. Significant investment in actions, particularly in the first three years is required to establish the foundation for ongoing conservation effort and will provide more realistic indications of ongoing implementation costs. Indicative costs for actions beyond the fifth year will therefore be developed as these initial actions are implemented and will inform the five year review.
Projected costs are not provided for Action 2.7 (expansion of the reserve system) because (1) such costs may be contingent on the extent of that expansion, (2) there is no narrowly-defined acquisition cost per se (given that the land is government owned), and (3) ongoing costs may relate to the intensity of reserved land management actions and the number of new reserve personnel required, Furthermore, for this action and some others (particularly relating to fire management), it is unrealistic to attribute all costs to the recovery of this single species, given that such actions are likely to benefit many more threatened species (see Section 8.3.1 Broader biodiversity benefits).
Projected costs are also not estimated for Action 7.3 (First Nations involvement), given that this will depend upon the extent to which First Nations groups seek to be and are engaged in the range of recovery actions.

8.1.1             Priorities
In some conservation scenarios elsewhere, the relative costs and benefits of candidate management actions can be readily compared, with priority then accorded to those actions that