Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747:reg:4:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 4 (pt 4/80)
Character Range: 13171–17131

Actions..................................................40

Table 6 Objective 3. Performance Criteria........................................47

Table 7 Objective 3 Actions..................................................47

Table 8 Objective 4. Performance Criteria........................................54

Table 9 Objective 4. Actions..................................................54

Table 10 Objective 5. Performance Criteria........................................59

Table 11 Objective 5. Actions..................................................60

Table 12 Objective 6. Performance Criteria........................................67

Table 13 Objective 6. Actions..................................................68

Table 14 Objective 7. Performance Criteria........................................72

Table 15 Objective 7. Actions..................................................73

Table 16 Objective 8. Performance Criteria........................................78

Table 17 Objective 8. Actions..................................................79

Table 18 Objective 9. Performance Criteria........................................85

Table 19 Objective 9. Actions..................................................86

Table 20 Approximate national costs for each objective in the plan, and overall, based on the numbers of actions that are categorised as very high ($5 million over 5 years); high ($1 million over 5 years); medium ($500,000 over 5 years); and low ($50,000 over 5 years)              92

Table 21 Research-focused actions under the strategic themes........................100

Table 22 Relevant legislation relating to cats in Australian states and territories............104

Table 23 Summary of the availability of feral cat control options in each state and territory....106

Table 24 Indicative alignment of 2015 threat abatement plan actions to 2024 threat abatement plan actions              108

Table 25 Glossary.........................................................116

Table 26 List of acronyms....................................................118

     1 Summary

Predation by feral cats is listed as a key threatening process under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), in recognition of the significant detrimental impact feral cats have on many Australian threatened species. The national management of feral cats has been coordinated and implemented through a succession of threat abatement plans (established in 1999, 2008 and 2015). These plans have successively contributed to:

    * major gains in knowledge about cats and their impacts in Australia
    * important advances in the efficacy and range of options available to manage them
    * significant conservation outcomes, especially for species most susceptible to cat predation

    * broad stakeholder recognition of the threat posed by feral cats and the need for actions to reduce that threat.

This plan builds on the foundations established by, and progress made in implementing, these previous plans, and seeks to further advance the effectiveness and coordination of feral cat management across Australia, thereby reducing their impacts on Australian threatened species and other components of biodiversity.

In Australia, landholders and state and territory governments hold primary responsibility for on-ground management of established invasive species like feral cats, and the latter also make and administer legislation on companion animal management. Local governments can, to the extent relevant state / territory law permits, enact local bylaws to augment that legislation.

The Australian Government supports coordinated national efforts to control invasive species, including through the development of threat abatement plans, like this one, for listed key threatening processes.

These threat abatement plans provide the framework for coordinated and efficient national