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cane toads are current and reflect the strategy developed in this TAP.           Medium priority, ongoing

Performance indicators
       * Webpage on the DSEWPaC website holds appropriate information and linkages within 12 months of the Minister making this TAP.
       * All co-funded or Australian Government funded cane toad projects include reporting of cane toad management actions, and monitoring of results, and are made available to the public within six months of the completion of the project.
       * Cane toad fact sheets and other communications material are revised and made available to the public within 12 months of the Minister making this TAP.
       * Threat abatement plan priorities are communicated directly to communities and stakeholders that have expressed concern and interest in cane toad control within three months of any request.

3. Duration, implementation and evaluation of the plan

3.1 Duration of the plan
This TAP reflects the fact that threat abatement will be ongoing, as there is no prospect for national eradication of cane toads.

This TAP must be reviewed by the Minister at intervals of not longer than five years. The Minister's scientific advisory committee, the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, will be provided with annual updates of actions taken under this TAP.

3.2 Cost of the plan
Funding for TAP actions, along with a range of other responsibilities under the EPBC Act, to be undertaken by the Australian Government, is provided to the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities via the Australian Government budget each year. At the time of writing this TAP (2010-11 financial year), this funding sits under Outcome 1 of the Department's budget:

    "The conservation and protection of Australia's terrestrial and marine biodiversity and ecosystems through supporting research, developing information, supporting natural resource management, regulating matters of national environmental significance and managing Commonwealth protected areas."

This budget outcome is allocated to a wide variety of actions including biodiversity conservation, the Caring for our Country initiative, the Australian Biological Resources Study Strategic Plan 2007–2011, assessment of Commonwealth-managed and all export fisheries, protection of cetaceans as well as development and implementation of individual TAPs.

Over the financial years 2008/2009 and 2009/2010, $2 million of funding under Caring for our Country was allocated to both the development of this TAP and a set of projects designed to meet the Caring for our Country business plan targets on cane toads. This TAP sets a new approach to the management of cane toads that focuses on the protection of high priority areas and high priority species which will be more effective, efficient and feasible than the broad-scale approaches used in the past.

Where possible, actions under this TAP will be facilitated through existing internal budget allocations where an existing responsibility for