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Healthy Country plans) developed by First Nations land managers.

Objective 4 acknowledges the critical role of First Nations peoples and Country in the conservation of Malleefowl at many locations.

6 Strategies
This recovery plan identifies eight strategies which set out the management actions and research necessary to support the recovery of the Malleefowl. Each strategy describes how a threat, or set of related threats, will be mitigated in order to meet the objectives of this recovery plan. The four 'on ground strategies' directly address biological threats to the Malleefowl, while the four 'supporting strategies' establish the systems needed to ensure effective on-ground action. These strategies are:

On-ground Strategies

    1. Enhance protection and improve or maintain quality, connectivity and extent of habitat for Malleefowl

2. Manage fire

3. Manage impacts of herbivore grazing and habitat destruction by feral animals

4. Manage and monitor impacts of introduced predators on Malleefowl

Supporting Strategies

5. Govern the Malleefowl recovery process

6. Engage the community

    7. Conduct research to determine distribution, habitat requirements and population dynamics

    8. Monitor the impacts of management interventions across sites, and use the information to adapt management

Where possible, the effectiveness of management strategies will be evaluated in an adaptive management framework so that learning may be obtained while management continues. This is especially important where there is uncertainty about the benefits of a management strategy to Malleefowl populations and where the costs of the management are high or may have unintended consequences (e.g., fox control may benefit cats). In practice, for sites outside the adaptive management experiment, this means that management actions should be recorded and reported wherever Malleefowl monitoring occurs, so that the outcomes of management can be evaluated, and that Malleefowl populations should be monitored where the outcomes of management are uncertain.

Malleefowl occur, or may occur, on lands traditionally owned by many Indigenous groups (see Section 2.2). Interests and opportunities for Indigenous peoples must be addressed when implementing actions outlined in this recovery plan (Thompson et al. 2020), including consultation and engagement protocols that are relevant to each organisation. There are significant opportunities for Indigenous peoples to lead recovery actions outlined in this plan.

Actions identified for the recovery of the Malleefowl are outlined below. The recovery actions describe what will be done and by whom.

7 Priority setting and costs

A prioritised table of actions has been established under this Recovery Plan, which provides for targeted actions aligned to regional priorities, and is subject to periodic review by the National Malleefowl Recovery Team. The risk presented by each threat varies across the distribution of the Malleefowl and between locations where Malleefowl persist, hence the priority for actions varies for each location.

Priorities at some locations