Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00346:reg:400:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00346
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 400 (pt 4/12)
Character Range: 321209–334106

* Wyndham City council manages Spiny Rice-flower population at Kirk's Bridge. In addition to prescribed burning, seed collection is targeted from this site.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 * The best measure of performance would be the quantity of sites reclassified to provide greater legal protection and the quality of the new level of legal protection offered. Once the State-wide database is complete, specific quantitative targets could be established.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Plant monitoring after unexpected longer burning in Southern Grampians Shire.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Management of sites in Moonee Valley, including new signage instalment and grasslands enrichment planting, prescribed burning.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Aus Eco Solutions conducted recruitment monitoring at Burns Rd Altona site and weed control at Deer Park Boral, Geggies Rd and Ballan Rd.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * ABZECO manages six reserves that contain Spiny Rice-flower for Brimbank Council.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Trust for Nature (TfN), working closely with DEWLP, is managing about $131,500 Threatened Species Recovery Fund (2020) that was allocated for the propagation of Spiny Rice-flower and Turnip Copperburr. Covenanted sites with these species are going to be targeted for augmentation.
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Burnside: at least 15 from 21 have survived the translocation (October 2017) and at least 13 from 20 have survived the previous one (May 2017).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Watergardens-Sydenham Park/Pioneer Park (The Sydenham Park): translocated plants has remained stable with no losses since November 2018 while the Pioneer Park population has lost three individuals. The Sydenham site has been mowed and a watering regime at both sites has continued throughout the 2017/2018 summer period)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Ballarat Railway upgrade: ABZECO was involved in the translocation of 369 individuals (November 2017) from the Ballarat line upgrade area to an area in the Western Grassland Reserve called Magpie. Currently the survival rate is about 62% after 2 years).
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Caroline Springs Railway Station: In June 2014, 23 plants were translocated, 61% of them have survived and in 2017, 3 were translocated 33% of them survive.
3.2         Protect populations on private property.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Initiate private land management agreements in consultation with private landowners Farm South of Echuca Sewerage Farm and farm in Patho, adjoining Murray Valley Hwy. under the Victorian Conservation Trust Act 1972, the Conservation, Forests and Lands Act 1987 and the Wildlife Act 1975                                                                                            * Neither of the private land populations listed in the first Recovery Plan have been legally protected. However, several Local Government Reserves have been established by councils on their private land.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 * Protection of sites on private land through a combination of TfN conservation covenants and strategic acquisition.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             * Improving the protection of sites is an ongoing priority action to be developed in collaboration between Trust for Nature (TfN), the Department of Primary Industries and the National Reserve System.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     * Further systematic searches, especially on potentially suitable