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the long-term, this information should be provided to the Water Mouse Recovery Team.
By implementing active search and/or remote camera methods, significant efficiencies may be achieved by adding targeted water mouse detection surveys to other activities in remote areas with the potential for habitat, and vice versa, such as:
    * Sea turtle and migratory shorebird monitoring.
    * Coastal habitat condition assessments.
    * Flora or biocultural surveys.
    * Coastline monitoring and clean-up.
    * Crocodile management and egg harvesting.
    * Feral animal management.
    * Food and timber harvesting.
    * Recreational and cultural activities such as fishing and boating.

5.2.5             Strategy 5: Incorporate water mouse into adaptive management plans to support persistence and recovery

The water mouse is an elusive species that can be easily overlooked during land management and conservation planning. To address this – in conjunction with the actions outlined for Strategy 3 (Develop communications material and implement effective partner engagement) – the water mouse is to be incorporated into an adaptive management plan or plans for every location where it is known to occur.
A water mouse adaptive management plan may be an independent plan or part of broader landscape management plans that specifically acknowledge and address potential and known local threats to the water mouse, e.g. Healthy Country Plans, Protected Area Management Plans, Catchment Management and Restoration Plans etc. Where it occurs in an area without a pre-existing or draft adaptive management plan, a short stand-alone water mouse adaptive management plan is to be developed and implemented based on a template developed by the Water Mouse Recovery Team.
For many water mouse locations, the development and implementation of an independent or broader landscape adaptive management plan for the water mouse will require the co-operation of multiple agencies with overlapping or adjacent management and/or custodianship responsibilities. It is the responsibility of these overlapping and neighbouring management and Custodianship groups to geographically define water mouse management and Custodianship areas and allocate management responsibilities appropriately to ensure effective water mouse adaptive management plans are developed and implemented.
All adaptive management plans and activities in areas with exclusive and joint Native Title determinations are to be developed and managed, or co-developed and co-managed, by the relevant Native Title holders (see Thompson et al. 2020).
The threat matrix and table in Section 4.11 and the following threat abatement and action plans provide guiding material to support the development of localised adaptive management plans for threats to the water mouse:
    * Threat abatement plan for predation by European red fox – 2008.
    * Threat abatement plan for predation, habitat degradation, competition and disease transmission by feral pigs (Sus scrofa) – 2017.
    * National feral pig action plan 2021–2031.
    * Threat abatement plan for predation by