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and its supporting background information document are intended as a key resource for park management agencies, to guide and assist actions that support the recovery of the ecological community. Ideally, the priority actions identified in the plan will be incorporated into future versions of park management plans, as well as other key management plans, such as those for State Forests and those dealing specifically with key threats to the ecological community, such as management of feral horses.

This Recovery Plan is also intended to guide project design, delivery and funding decisions. For example, projects consistent with a national recovery plan for a listed species or ecological community are excellent targets for funding under programmes such as the National Landcare Programme and the Green Army programme. Regional investment through such programmes is necessary to support the implementation of the recovery plan across the national range.

6.1 Projected funding needs and timing

Overall, implementation of all of the actions in this recovery plan are expected to cost around $10.79 million annually for ACT, NSW and Victoria combined, and to be implemented over five years with a total cost of about $53.95 million (Table 3).

The implementation of actions in Tasmania is expected to cost $3.6 million annually, with a total cost over five years of $18 million, assuming costs are the same annually (Table 4).

Indicative funding for ACT, NSW and Victoria for implementation of recovery plan actions is outlined in Table 3 below. These costings have been derived from the whole-of-Alps estimates provided to the Australian Government in the Caring for our Australian Alps Catchment report (Worboys et al., 2011) to implement six priority landscape-scale actions that are consistent with the actions in this recovery plan:
1)                   Halting catchment degradation
2)                   Investing in resilient ecosystems
3)                   Adapting to new climates
4)                   Investing in management innovation
5)                   Investing in people and communities, and
6)                   Researching for better catchments.

The report details cost-specific targets under each priority action. Where a target in the report is consistent with an action identified in the recovery plan, the cost of managing that target has been included in the cost against the recovery action in Tables 3 and 4. Where a target under a priority action in the catchment report does not have a corresponding action in the Recovery Plan, the cost for that target has been excluded.

The Caring for our Australian Alps Catchment report includes additional costs appropriate to 'whole-of Alps' catchment management and are not covered by the recovery plan. This does not exclude the need for establishment and follow-up activities to be undertaken under the recovery plan, just that they are not specifically identified and costed here. These additional costs are:
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