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Recovery team:
Recovery teams provide advice and assist in coordinating actions described in recovery plans. They include representatives from organisations with a direct interest in the recovery of the species, including those involved in funding and those participating in actions that support the recovery of the species. The Crayfish Recovery Team (CRT) has the responsibility of providing advice on the implementation of the recovery actions outlined in this recovery plan. The membership of the CRT may include individuals with relevant responsibility and expertise from Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) and DPIPWE, as well as experts from research institutions and consultancies, and private researchers; membership may change over time.

Recovery strategies:

The strategies to achieve the plans' objectives are to:

        * Conduct population trend monitoring and research to assess the current status of the species and evaluate the effectiveness of recovery actions.
        * Mitigate key threats impacting upon giant freshwater crayfish habitat.
        * Increase the reservation status and improve the quality of identified key locations for the giant freshwater crayfish.
        * Reduce the pressures of illegal fishing on the giant freshwater crayfish.
        * Engage with the general public, local government and non-government organisations (NGOs) in developing and delivering conservation measures.

Criteria for success:

This recovery plan will be deemed successful if, within 10 years, all the following have been achieved:

        * Population densities are increasing and have a healthy demographic structure.
        * Key locations are identified and monitored annually, and population trends are assessed.
        * Illegal fishing has been reduced to a point that it no longer threatens the species' survival.
        * Appropriate measures have been put in place to manage key threats affecting habitat.
        * Habitat quality has been maintained or improved in key locations.
        * Reservation status has been improved, or habitat protections increased, in key locations.
        * Community awareness of, and participation in, giant freshwater crayfish conservation has increased.

Criteria for failure:

This recovery plan will be deemed to have failed if; within 10 years any of the following have occurred:

        * Regular monitoring has not been conducted and population trends have not been assessed.
        * The species has become locally extinct from key locations in the wild, or populations at these locations do not display a healthy demographic structure.
        * Recruitment of juveniles has not been recorded, and a healthy demographic structure is lacking, at locations identified as key to the survival of the giant freshwater crayfish.
        * Illegal fishing pressure has not been reduced across the species' range.
        * Actions have not been undertaken to address key threats limiting population growth and recovery.
        * Habitat quality has declined in key locations.

2 Introduction

This document constitutes the 'National Recovery Plan for the Giant