Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2007B00385:body:0:p12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2007B00385
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Character Range: 33154–36219

and foraging habitat.
    * Objective 7:  To determine threatening processes affecting the species.
    * Objective 8:  To develop and implement a community awareness program to assist in the location of previously undetected populations.

Performance Criteria
Performance Criteria listed below match the corresponding Objectives:
    * Criterion 1:  Taxonomic status of the Christmas Island Shrew resolved.
    * Criterion 2:  Current conservation status and distribution determined.
    * Criterion 3:  Abundance and spread of crazy ant is less than at 2002 levels, with all high-density supercolonies reduced by 99% of their original densities.
    * Criterion 4:  Captive breeding populations established with the aim of reintroduction once potential threat control has been achieved.
    * Criterion 5:  Any identified extant populations protected and population numbers increase.
    * Criterion 6:  Habitat critical to survival investigated and determined.
    * Criterion 7:  Threatening processes determined, and actions taken to control them.
    * Criterion 8:  Increased knowledge of the shrew amongst island residents, an enhanced ability amongst islanders to identify the species from other small mammals and guidelines on what to do if a shrew is found.

Evaluation of performance
The plan's performance to be reviewed by an Island Recovery Team as proposed for avifauna by Garnett & Crowley (2000). This recovery team to be established with the primary objective of developing and implementing island-wide conservation management and recovery plans, including for the Christmas Island Shrew. The Recovery Team to review and evaluate progress with respect to this Recovery Plan annually over the five-year period.  This recovery team should comprise:
    1. on-island representatives (including PAN staff, a Shire of Christmas Island representative, and other local members as deemed appropriate), and
    2. off-island representatives (including two or more members of the scientific community with first-hand knowledge of the island's ecology and endemic fauna).
In addition to annual review, implementation of the plan should be reviewed at the end of 5 years (as required under the EPBC Act). If the Christmas Island Shrew is not found during the life of this plan (see Action 2), the conservation status listing should also be reviewed, and if appropriate, the species nominated for listing as Extinct.

Actions
The Actions are to follow two distinct stages:

STAGE 1 – PRIOR TO LOCATION OF EXTANT POPULATIONS

This stage incorporates actions to be undertaken prior to the location of extant populations of the Christmas Island Shrew.

Action 1: Investigate the taxonomic status of the shrew (Obj. 1;  Perf. Crit. 1).
Genetic studies, using (dry or ethanol preserved) museum specimens can determine the phylogenetic relationship with closely related shrews in Java and other parts of southeast Asia. This can be achieved by analysing molecular sequence data, such as mitochondrial cytochrome b gene or the control region of D-loop. Taxonomic