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 Acknowledgements
 This Recovery Plan was compiled by Rachel Paltridge on behalf of Indigenous Desert Alliance under contract to the Australian Government through the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.
 We sincerely thank the Traditional Custodians and Rangers who have contributed their extensive knowledge, data and ideas for saving the Great Desert Skink to the new Recovery Plan. We thank them for their efforts in managing the country on which it occurs and keeping both the skinks and their Tjukurrpa alive.
 We would like to make special acknowledgement of the efforts of Steve McAlpin who conducted much of the foundational research on Great Desert Skinks and wrote the initial Recovery Plan and other documents which have been heavily drawn upon for the new Plan.
 We would also like to thank the many other partners from Commonwealth and State environment departments, researchers, Aboriginal Corporations, Natural Resource Management bodies, community group representatives, private land managers/ custodians, and ecological consultants who have provided support, information and ideas for the Plan.

 Front Cover Image credits
 Tjalapa Painting by John Tjupurrula West, Kiwirrkurra IPA, 2019.

Summary
  The Great Desert Skink (Liopholis kintorei) is a large orange skink. It lives in a communal family burrow system where young lizards are raised by their parents for the first two years of life. The Great Desert Skink is a species of cultural significance for Aboriginal people, both as an important Tjukurrpa species and a food resource. It is known by various names in different Aboriginal languages but for the purposes of this document it is mainly referred to as Tjakura.

  Tjakura has disappeared from many places that it was known from in the pujiman (bushman) days (before Aboriginal people moved into settlements). It is
  now classified as Vulnerable to extinction under the Australian Government's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, because of its small population size, and inferred continuing decline in range and abundance.

  This Recovery Plan is a two-way science document. Its purpose is to bring together Indigenous Knowledge and scientific research about Tjakura into a single document that motivates and educates people about the most important management and research actions required to stop the decline, and support the recovery of, Tjakura over the next 10 years.

  To create this Recovery Plan the Indigenous Desert Alliance (IDA) held a series of workshops with many stakeholders across the range of Tjakura in