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* Engage with Indigenous land managers to help protect and rehabilitate Littoral Rainforest on country

       * Engage with the public and local land owners/managers to promote the values of Littoral Rainforest and drive community involvement in management, and

       * Assist with funding applications for management and rehabilitation activities.

Strategy 5: Improve knowledge on the distribution and condition of Littoral Rainforest, and monitor and report on the status of the ecological community
Relevant for: state and local governments, science organisations, Indigenous land managers, NRM bodies, community organisations.
Conduct the following:

       * Fine-scale mapping of Littoral Rainforest, across the extent of the ecological community, to establish distribution at local and regional management scales

       * Establish baseline conditions at local and regional scales and compare these against the condition thresholds (i.e. patch size, transformer weed cover, percent native species and percent rainforest species in canopy cover)
       * Monitor and evaluate patches at regular (maximum 5 yearly) intervals and report trends in extent and/or condition to the relevant management agencies

       * Improve understanding of fragmentation impacts on Littoral Rainforest and the contribution of small patches to the long-term viability of the ecological community

       * Monitor structural and compositional change at a sample of sites with varied levels of protection and exposure to threats
       * Develop effective restoration techniques tailored to specific species assemblages and threat contexts.

5.3      Performance criteria
The key performance criteria to indicate the success of the Recovery Plan will be:

      * The current known extent (area) of Littoral Rainforest has been maintained or extended and the condition of the ecological community has been maintained or improved.
High level performance criteria for measuring this success include:

      * No further decline in extent of Littoral Rainforest

      * No further declines of significant species of native plants associated with Littoral Rainforest

      * Reduced abundance and extent of infestation of transformer weeds

      * Increased representation of native biota in restored patches of vegetation, and

      * Increased resilience of patches, through the maintenance of climate adaptation features.

More specific performance criteria are listed under each strategy in Section 5.4.

5.4      Recovery actions
The recovery actions in the Recovery Plan are informed by current knowledge, threats and regulatory arrangements, and expert opinion. Using an adaptive management approach, these recovery actions will be refined where new information becomes available and/or circumstances change.
Individual recovery actions play a part in building the resilience and integrity of remnant patches of Littoral Rainforest. No one action will address all issues, but collectively they will increase the robustness, functionality and sustainability of the ecological community as a whole. Many of the actions listed are underway and have been for many years. However, the proposed actions include a number of new initiatives that