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where required, through updated national documents (Action 2g).

13. Schedule and costs
The conservation of the listed Koala across a large geographic range will require considerable investment from partners, interest groups, volunteers, in-kind contributions (such as regular government business or volunteer revegetation contributions) and funds to undertake the actions.
Implementing this recovery plan is subject to budgetary and other resource opportunities and constraints affecting partners. The cost of implementing this recovery plan should, where possible, be incorporated into the core business expenditure of partner organisations and through additional funds obtained for the explicit purpose of implementation. A key action upon formation of a governance structure to steer implementation of the recovery plan will be to prioritise and assign relative budgets against these under the National Implementation Pathway (section 12.1).
The majority of actions have draft prioritisation against each (categories 1–2) to the extent practicable, while most costings are estimates for the following reasons:
    * Actions cross-cut across multiple threat management actions and supporting actions.
    * The risk presented by each threat varies across the distribution of the Koala, hence the priority for actions varies by location.
    * Action priorities at specific locations are likely to change within the life of the plan, and the complexity of threat management actions preclude prescribing priorities.
    * Threat management is adaptive, and therefore effort will need to change in space and time.
    * Knowledge of the effectiveness of threat management actions is incomplete, and therefore new knowledge informed by research may alter management approaches.
    * Many actions cannot be accurately costed, or are weather and bushfire dependent, or are part of existing core business and resourcing.
    * Some actions are predicated on outcomes of other actions (e.g. mapping) or research.
    * Planning legislation, regulations and policies, and how they influence local threat management actions, varies widely at the state and local government level.
    * Many actions are underway by state and local governments and conservation groups.
Total costings for the actions of the recovery plan are presented by priority and year in Appendix 1.

14. Current recovery actions
Many actions, or parts of actions in this plan, are underway through Australian Government and state-led investment programs, plans or other conservation efforts for the listed Koala. In addition many non-government organisations, Friends' groups, community groups and individuals are contributing outside government funded projects.
Sequencing the Koala genome. Image: © University of Sydney.

14.1 Australian Government
Since 2019, the Australian Government has committed $74.3 million over six years to the conservation of the listed Koala. This includes $12 million to establish and implement a National Koala Monitoring Program (including Victoria and South Australia) (section 9), which will build on and complement existing monitoring led by state