Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00555:body:0:p21
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00555
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 57546–60666

* The area and quality of refugial habitat of populations whose primary threat is climate change, and indirectly drought and heatwaves, has increased. Importantly, it is increasingly apparent that parts of the listed Koala's range will become climatically unsuitable for the species' persistence in the future (sections 19.1, 21.3). Evaluation against this objective will necessarily involve some allowance for strong effects that are unable to be mitigated thus requiring a 'shifting baseline'. Where such losses are unavoidable, conservation translocations may be considered to maintain adaptability of surviving populations to a changing climate (section 12.3, Action 6b).
1B. The area of occupancy and estimated size of populations that are suspected and predicted to be stable are maintained or increased
Performance Criteria: By 2032,
    * Indices of population size (abundance) of a representative sample of populations show that population size are maintained or increased.
    * The area of occupancy of a representative sample of populations is maintained or increased.
Performance Criteria (1A and 1B): By 2032,
    * Across all representative populations, there is a total net increase of habitat (excluding offset areas) five-yearly.
2. Metapopulation processes are maintained or improved
Performance Criteria: By 2032,
    * Indicators of population health (genetic and disease) are maintained or improved.
    * Indicators of ecosystem health are maintained or improved.
3. Partners, communities and individuals have a greater role and capability in listed Koala monitoring, conservation and management
Performance Criteria: By 2032,
    * There is an increase in the number, locations and activities of Indigenous Australians participating in recovery for the listed Koala, including leadership, agenda setting, citizen science, training and capacity building and on-ground works across the range of the listed Koala.
    * There is an increase in the number, locations and activities of the general community participating in recovery for the listed Koala, including leadership, agenda setting, citizen science, training and capacity building and on-ground works.
    * There is an increase in the number, locations and activities of the partners participating in recovery for the listed Koala, including leadership, agenda setting, citizen science, training and capacity building and on-ground works across the range of the listed Koala.

Indices and metrics for the performance criteria
The indices and metrics used to monitor progress for these objectives will be overseen by the Recovery Team, the Technical Advisory Committee and workshopped with experts and key partners. They will consider natural stochastic variability. These will be collectively informed by the National Koala Monitoring Program (section 9), the Koala Health Research Initiative and the Koala genomics projects initiated with key partners in 2021, as well as monitoring programs run by the jurisdictions.
It will not be practicable to frequently measure every population, thus a sample of populations which are representative