Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00287:reg:3:p10
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Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 10/276)
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profiles for each of the threatened species, including a summary of the actions outlined in this plan to guide their management. Profiles are also included for some of the region's most significant seabirds, some of which are listed as marine and/or migratory under the EPBC Act.
Part 7 provides additional information in Appendices.

Part 1—Context

1.1         Introduction

1.1.1        Purpose and scope
The Norfolk Island Group contains many threatened species in a relatively small and isolated geographic area. Many of the threatened species in the Norfolk Island Group are affected by common pressures and have overlapping requirements. To take a more strategic and integrated approach to threatened species recovery and threat abatement for the Norfolk Island Group, a regional recovery plan is more appropriate than separate plans for individual species. This allows for more integration of regional scale threat abatement activities, and many of the management actions proposed have been devised to deliver benefit to multiple species.
The recovery plan replaces the previous Norfolk Island Region Threatened Species Recovery Plan (Director of National Parks 2010). The overall objective of the previous recovery plan was to secure and improve the conservation status of Norfolk Island threatened species through an integrated program of habitat protection and improvement, threat abatement, and public awareness and involvement. The previous plan covered 58 threatened species, serving as a formal recovery plan for 53 of these. The plan also provided conservation actions for five endemic snails that are listed under the EPBC Act, but which do not require a recovery plan (there is an additional conservation advice in place for each of the five species).
The purpose of this recovery plan is to outline the management and recovery actions necessary to stop the decline and support the recovery of terrestrial threatened species on Norfolk Island. This plan aims to maximise the likelihood of threatened species surviving long term in the wild and is intended as the next phase of a longer pathway towards the conservation of biodiversity on Norfolk Island. By taking a regional approach, this plan seeks to identify and support integrated solutions for the group of threatened species, ecosystems, and general biodiversity in the Norfolk Island Group. However, within that broad scope it is essential to identify and address the management and recovery requirements of the individual species and to identify the priority actions to be delivered in different places. This balance is reflected in the targets that have been established.
The plan covers all land tenures across the Norfolk Island Group including Norfolk Island, Phillip Island, Nepean Island and surrounding rock stacks (Map 1) but does not address the Norfolk Marine Park (which is managed under the Temperate East Marine Parks Network Management Plan 2018