Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00270:body:0:p77
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L00270
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for this species and those for people and community safety as much as possible.  Urgent             DEECA, AG, Uni                     $50          $50          $50          $50          –            $200
2.3 Continue to refine and update occupancy and other relevant distributional and population viability modelling, in all land tenures across the full range of the species.                                                                                                                                            Urgent             DEECA, Uni                         $800         $800         –            –            –            $1600
2.4 Undertake landscape scale land-use planning that provides options for conservation of suitable habitat now and in the future.                                                                                                                                                                                      Urgent             DEECA, AG, Uni                     –            $100         $100         –            –            $200
2.5 Expand the dedicated reserve system to incorporate sufficient areas of current and future suitable habitat to ensure that it is adequate to maintain and enhance the long-term population viability of Leadbeater's possum.                                                                                        Urgent             DEECA, AG, PV,                     –            TBD          TBD          TBD          –            –
2.6 Assess the feasibility, risks and cost-effectiveness of fire management options that seek to deliver long-term, strategic and landscape scale enhancement of the extent, and quality of current and future suitable habitat.                                                                                       Urgent             DEECA, PV, Melb Water, Uni         $200         $200         $50          $50          $50          $550
2.7 Develop a suite of priority post-fire responses, and implement these following any extensive bushfire.                                                                                                                                                                                                             Essential          DEECA, PV, Zoos Vic                $50          $50          –            –            –            $100
2.8 Undertake strategic habitat augmentation (nest boxes, artificially excavated hollows, manipulation of understorey).                                                                                                                                                                                                Essential          DEECA, AG, PV, Zoos Vic, Uni, CC   $300         $300         $300         $300         $300         $1500
2.9 Protect and buffer all large (over 150 cm DBH) and hollow-bearing trees (where over 80 cm DBH).                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Urgent             DEECA, Uni                         $400         –            –            –            –            $400
2.10 Enhance current and future habitat suitability and extent for lowland swamp forest habitat.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Urgent             DEECA, AG, PV, Zoos Vic, CC        $2000        $1100        $100         $100         $100         $3400
3.1 Identify priority areas within the known range to which translocations may provide benefit and develop translocation protocols.                                                                                                                                                                                    Highly beneficial  DEECA, PV, Zoos Vic                $100         $100         –            –            –            $200
3.2 Continue with genetic sequencing to help inform analyses and assess the risks, benefits, practicality, cost-effectiveness and consequences of 'gene pool mixing' to increase the viability of the lowland subpopulation.                                                                                           Highly beneficial  DEECA, Uni, PV, Zoos Vic           $50          –            –            –            –            $50
3.3 Where likely benefit, undertake carefully monitored trial translocations.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Urgent             DEECA, PV, Zoos Vic                $500         $500         $500         $500         $500         $2500
3.4 Apply ex situ strategies where appropriate, including trials with highland animals, to aid the management options for the lowland swamp forest subpopulation.                                                                                                                                                      Essential          Zoos Vic                           $225         $225         $225         $225         $225         $1125
4.1 Using recently developed survey approaches, survey potentially suitable areas outside the known range.                                                                                                                                                                                                             Urgent             DEECA, PV, Zoos Vic                $500         $500         $500         –            –            $1500
4.2 If such surveys locate 'new' populations, assess their status and management requirements and implement management.                                                                                                                                                                                                Urgent             DEECA,