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private land managers of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo feeding habitats.
    d)     Negotiate agreements with public land managers in South Australia to retain the majority of Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo stringybark feeding habitat as long-unburnt.
    e)      Liaise with Department for Environment and Heritage (SA) fire management officer on ecological burning.
    f)       Continue to support trials of 'cool' burns with reduced canopy scorch as a means of achieving both fire protection outcomes and improved food availability.
    g)     Use GIS data for both canopy scorch area and prescribed burns directed away from newly matured seed crops, supplied by DSE in Victoria annually, to determine the percentage change in seed availability.
    h)     Promote the desirability of increasing fire intervals, together with perimeter burns or reduced canopy scorch burns, on private land, as a means of improving food availability.

The aim is to retain the majority of stringybark feeding habitat as long-unburnt across all land tenures. Fire history mapping will inform managers and underpin monitoring. Seed crops should be assessed to ensure better quality buds, flowers and newly matured seed crops are not burnt, and prescribed burns are directed towards areas with older or poorer seed crops. Burns with reduced canopy scorch can achieve both fire protection outcomes and improve food availability.
ForestrySA have detailed records of burns in Native Forest Reserves that will inform production of age-since-fire maps.

Action 6. Reduce threats from weed invasion in feeding habitat
    a)      Enforce existing planning permit conditions that require plantation owners to control wildling pines.
    b)     Encourage and assist agencies to increase control of pine infestations in stringybark woodlands.

This includes agencies enforcing planning permit conditions, such as those in existence in Victoria since 1989 where plantation owners are required to control wildling pines, encouraging owners of older plantations to do likewise, and using agency staff and volunteers to control other pine infestations.

Action 7. Monitor the population, range and area of occupancy: conduct an annual count, expanded flock counts and analyses, and map location records
    a)      Conduct an annual count to determine minimum population size, range and area of occupancy.
    b)     Expand to the north the annual flock counts in autumn to determine the proportion of adult males and other birds in flocks as an index of recruitment.
    c)      Map annual location records showing separately (i) nesting season locations, (ii) post-fledging locations, and (iii) winter roost locations.
    d)     Analyse flock count data and compare results with food availability information.

The annual count determines minimum population size, helps estimate range, and area of occupancy, and should also be compared with food availability information. The expanded autumn flock counts provide an index of recruitment. Mapping annual locations will show nesting season, post-fledging and winter roost locations, to enable appropriate management.

Action 8.