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Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 96/276)
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and incentives for best practice in domestic cat ownership.
    * Explore community values and aspirations for the future environment and biodiversity of the islands, including attitudes to potential conservation interventions and priority locations for action.
    * Support the community to manage native vegetation and promote the restoration of native vegetation through the development of field guides, planting guides for threatened plant species, educational material (including the importance of preventing garden escapees), and field days.
    * Provide financial incentives for private landholders to manage natural areas for conservation (for example, by weeding, fencing native vegetation from livestock, and/or undertaking revegetation).
    * Provide financial support for commercial and private fruit growers to protect their crops from increasing Norfolk Island green parrot numbers.
    * Determine if carbon-offsetting programs to support restoration of native vegetation are appropriate for Norfolk Island and undertake community consultation on potential programs.
    * Create a platform for data, knowledge and information sharing and collaboration amongst managers, local community members, researchers and other experts. Utilise (and if possible, expand upon) existing platforms for knowledge sharing.

4.6         Adaptive management
Adaptive management is an iterative decision-making process which, in simple terms, can be described as learning by doing and adapting based on what is learned. This process acknowledges that uncertainty often exists in conservation management and seeks to progressively reduce that uncertainty and improve decision making through a continuous cycle of planning, action, monitoring, research (including experimental management), evaluation and adjustment (Figure 6). There are multiple possible 'loops' of adjustment that can be made depending on the results of evaluation, from refining management actions and survey design to wholesale reassessment of conceptual plans.
Figure 6 Illustration of the major steps of the adaptive management cycle and its links to the Norfolk Island Region Threatened Species Recovery Plan
In the development of any actions to recover Norfolk Island's threatened species, stakeholders and specialists should undertake planning sessions to understand the system in which they work and assess the problems they are seeking to address. Conceptual models and associated results chains are tools that can support this process and inform the development of robust management programs, threatened species recovery targets and key performance indicators.
Effective monitoring and evaluation of the management actions in this plan will be fundamental to achieving the targets. Clear and timely reporting will help to ensure that the recommendations resulting from evaluation can be used to inform future delivery of actions.
As part of the adaptive management approach, research will be closely integrated with delivery of management. Experimental research is needed to test the effectiveness of different management approaches. Research is also needed to improve our understanding of Norfolk Island's ecosystems and biodiversity in general and to determine the status