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the species across its range, and identifies the actions needed to ensure the species' long-term viability in nature and the parties that will undertake those actions.

The first Recovery Plan for the species was prepared under the Commonwealth's Endangered Species Program in 1991 (Bryant 1991). This Recovery Plan supersedes the previous Recovery Plan (TSS 2006) that was adopted under the EPBC Act in November 2006. A summary of the key achievements gained for the species over this thirty-year period is provided in Appendix A.

The second Forty-spotted Pardalote Recovery Plan (TSS 2006) was reviewed in February 2021 by the Forty-spotted Pardalote Recovery Team. The review noted that since the adoption of the Recovery Plan in 2006, a notable amount of progress had been made in facilitating the conservation of the species. Most effort was directed towards: securing perpetual covenants within the species' known and potential range, deploying nest boxes to support breeding, planting white gum to expand potential habitat, increasing public awareness of the species, and conducting research to test techniques to manage the ectoparasitic fly (Passeromyia longicornis) (Edworthy et al. 2019; Alves et al. 2020).

Many of the actions identified in the second Recovery Plan were still deemed relevant in recovering the species, though previously viable breeding subpopulations have now gone from locations at Taroona, Lime Bay State Reserve, Peter Murrell Reserve, and Coningham Peninsula. The review noted that there was a lack of coordinated response to threatening activities even though primary and secondary threats were quite well understood. It also noted the lack of funding to support recovery actions at the landscape scale. The review identified the following current threats in 2021: climate change, impact of ectoparasitic fly on nesting success, development expansion (including private land clearing and housing sub-divisions), and competitor species. Future actions deemed high priority were: developing and implementing fire management plans, nest box design and installation, and assessing the feasibility of translocation strategies.

The review of the second Recovery Plan determined that the actions required to conserve and promote recovery of the species include short- and long-term activities that need to be coordinated at a landscape/regional level with a range of stakeholder groups. These actions need to be informed by long-term monitoring to determine their success and status of the species. The review concluded that a new Recovery Plan should be developed for the forty-spotted pardalote.

Accompanying Species Profile and Threats Database (SPRAT) pages provide background information on the biology, population status and threats to the species.

2.1 Conservation status
The forty-spotted pardalote is a listed threatened species under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The species was eligible for listing under the EPBC Act as on 16 July 2000