Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00287:reg:3:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2025L00287
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 3 (pt 8/276)
Character Range: 27528–30667

of potential new invasive species

a See risk assessment at Section 2.2

Summary of recommended management and monitoring
A coordinated suite of management programs will be required to achieve the objectives of the plan, including:
    * biosecurity
    * integrated invasive animal control:
         * control of rodents
         * control of feral chickens
         * control of free-roaming cats
         * control of crimson rosellas
         * control of swamphens
         * eradication of Argentine ants
    * control of Phytophthora cinnamomi
    * restoration of native vegetation
    * fire management
    * provision of nest sites for native threatened birds
    * population management.
See Table 3 for a summary and Table 29 for full details of these management programs.
Direct management must be supported by a range of supporting actions, including coordination, policy and legislation, and community engagement and communication.
It is essential that management is informed by a comprehensive and integrated program of monitoring and evaluation. Section 4.6 (Adaptive management) provides a framework for developing a monitoring plan with the ability to track results across chains of linked indicators, representing a sequence of results towards a final goal, specifically regarding: (1) investment of resources, (2) delivered management actions, (3) state of pressures (relating to management targets) and (4) populations of threatened species (relating to species targets). Regular evaluation across these chains of indicators will enable progress to be tracked and appropriate adaptive adjustments to be made to management, ecological monitoring, and research elements of the recovery plan.

    Summary of the costing framework
The plan applies a systematic costing framework to estimate the budget that would be required to achieve the targets of the plan and help secure the long-term future of the unique biodiversity of the Norfolk Island Group. Costs were estimated for all core and contingency management programs. For each program, the underlying activities required to achieve the management target over a five-year period were identified, using a standardised framework of categories of activity and different cost components. Structured models were used to estimate the costs of each management program, including simulating a range of cost estimates to account for uncertain variables such as travel and labour costs. Contingency costs for eradicating invasive species from Phillip Island if those species arrived on the island from Norfolk Island were estimated by considering the per eradication event cost and the probability of occurrence over the five years.
Costs were estimated separately for three management areas: Norfolk Island National Park, public reserves, and other land. Table 33 summarises the management programs and locations to which they apply.
Estimates of total costs over five years (best estimates with ranges to incorporate uncertainty in cost predictions) are:
    * Norfolk Island National Park: $54,217,963 (range: $39,235,600 to $82,376,763)
    * public reserves: $16,551,581