Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00432:reg:2:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00432
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 15265–18301

a product of a four-day workshop in 2015, consisting of thirty-nine experts representing twenty-nine organisations involved in recovery of the Greater Bilby. This workshop reviewed the conservation activities that had been undertaken since the publication of the Recovery Plan for the Greater Bilby 2006–2011 (Pavey 2006).
    * What did we learn from the 2016 Ninu Festival? prepared by Rachel Paltridge. This report was informed by a three-day workshop in 2016, of 125 Indigenous rangers from 10 Indigenous land management organisations and 22 other experts representing 18 partner organisations. A second complementary report, Bilby is part of this country and for everybody, cultural report about bilbies and the Ninu Festival, Kiwirrkura, 2016 was produced by Fiona Walsh and Custodians of the Greater Bilby and focused on more of the cultural aspects of the Ninu Festival and explored the significance of bilbies to Traditional Owners.
Photo: Sally Napurula Butler with a bilby at the Alice Springs Desert Park, 2016 © Kiwirrkurra IPA.

2.2                 What is different about this plan?
This plan reflects changes in social, economic, and environmental context within which it was developed that have occurred since the previous recovery plan was adopted in 2007 (Pavey 2006).
Both the Conservation Measures Partnership and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Conservation Planning Specialist Group (CPSG) have progressively developed conservation planning systems focussed on achieving conservation outcomes through collaborative processes. Increasing collaboration was identified as the solution to poor plan uptake, and to increase the cohesion and effectiveness of conservation effort. Such planning systems place equal weight on having a structured and scientifically sound foundation, and on reflecting the aspirations, constraints and capacity of the conservation partners. Combined, this results in a plan that 'belongs' to the collaborative partners and is therefore more likely to be implemented.
Development of this plan was commenced at a collaborative workshop (the Greater Bilby National Summit, 2015) facilitated by the CPSG, initiated by the Save the Bilby Fund, and supported by many partners. In addition to the many existing partners, the recognition of the significant role of Indigenous people required a new approach to collaborative planning that provided an opportunity for all those involved in conserving the Greater Bilby to influence the content of the plan.
Indigenous ranger projects were first funded in 2007 through the Working on Country Program and created meaningful employment, training and career pathways for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in land and sea management. There are now more than 2100 full-time, part-time and casual Indigenous rangers, many of whose country is (or was) home to bilbies. The plan includes the actions and strategies that rangers and their communities identified as important for keeping country healthy for both bilbies and