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Management Actions

Without detailed knowledge of the species, specific management actions cannot be prescribed, however, generic actions which may aid the recovery of Lister's Gecko and the Christmas Island Blind Snake include:
    1. Increasing community awareness of native threatened species by emphasising their endemic significance and potential roles as indicators of ecosystem health in island-wide recovery processes.
    2. Integrating, to the maximum extent possible, the actions specified in this Recovery Plan in the Plan of Management for Christmas Island National Park (Environment Australia, 2002). This plan is in force until 2009.
    3. Establish an island-wide Biodiversity Recovery Team to advise PAN and the Australian Government on actions needed to modify and/or enhance and/or integrate existing biodiversity survey/monitoring programs across Christmas Island.

By incorporating recovery actions for all threatened species into an island-wide biodiversity enhancement and management plan overseen by a CI Biodiversity Recovery Team or its equivalent, costs will be minimised and benefits to Christmas Island biodiversity optimized. Such a team should be assigned the task of monitoring the status of all native biota, but with special emphasis on endemic and threatened taxa. The necessary links between such a Team and PANCI should be established to ensure that the Team's findings feed directly into PANCI's on-going management programs within Christmas Island National Park.

An action that would remove, modify or degrade habitat of these species and that could result in a significant impact on the species may require referral to the Commonwealth Environment Minister under the EPBC Act for a decision on whether assessment and approval of the action is required.

Monitoring, reporting and review

Progress should be monitored and evaluated by PAN, or members of any recovery team assigned responsibility for implementing this Recovery Plan. A review preparatory to implementing the autecological components of this Recovery Plan should be conducted whenever one or both species are rediscovered. There should be a review of the recovery program at the end of year two (i.e. early in year 3), including consideration of which (if any) actions should continue, based on whether the species have been found in the wild. If the recovery program continues until year 5 an external review should be conducted.

Performance Criteria

  1. Populations of both species are located within 2 years or surveys to locate both species continue (until species located) for the life of the Recovery Plan (5 years).
2. The possible role of the Wolf Snake, cats and black rats as threats, and potential for control programs, investigated.
  3. Existing control program for the crazy ant maintained and/or improved within 2 years.
4. Quarantine regulations and protocols reviewed, and modified as necessary within 2 years.
  5. Autecological studies are commissioned within 6 months of the