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* Strategy 2: Map water mouse habitat and locations at a fine scale to ensure relevant land managers and Custodians are identified and engaged in water mouse recovery.
    * Strategy 3: Develop clear and adaptive communications and implement tailored engagement processes to ensure relevant land managers and Custodians are effectively engaged in water mouse detection, management and monitoring.
    * Strategy 4: Implement targeted water mouse detection surveys in areas of potential habitat across the water mouse distribution.
    * At confirmed water mouse locations:
               Strategy 5: Support current and future land managers and Custodians to include the water mouse in adaptive land management plans that support persistence and recovery by identifying local threats to this species, and implementing actions to address them.
               Strategy 6: Ensure effective water mouse population monitoring occurs to enable local and national population trends, impacts of threats, and effectiveness of management actions to be assessed.
          Strategy 7: Investigate water mouse ecology and detectability, and the impact of threats to the national population.

5.2                  Actions
The water mouse occurs, or may occur, on Country of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Peoples (Table 1). Interests and opportunities for Indigenous Peoples must be incorporated into 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 and co-lead recovery actions outlined in this plan.

5.2.1             Strategy 1: Adequate regulation and management of coastal development
All developments with the potential to have a negative impact (i.e. a significant impact) on a known or undetected water mouse population must be appropriately assessed and regulated to ensure water mouse locations under pressure remain resilient, recovery of the national population is not impeded, and a sustainable coastal development approach is implemented.
Table 5: Actions to ensure activities and developments in coastal areas within the modelled distribution of the water mouse are adequately assessed and regulated (Strategy 1).
Action No.  Action Description                                                                                                                                               Action Details                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Performance criteria
1.1         Development proposals and actions within the modelled water mouse distribution and adjacent areas supporting recovery are appropriately assessed and regulated.  Commonwealth and State planning departments, and Local Councils to include current (Map 1) and future (Action 2.3) modelled distributions of the water mouse in all local and regional planning processes. All development proposals and activities within the current and future modelled water mouse distribution that may result in a decline in the national population (Sections 4.1, 4.6 and 4.7) – alone or in conjunction with other activities – must be referred to the Commonwealth for assessment and the assessment must be reviewed by a member of the Water Mouse Recovery Team with expertise in water