Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00195:reg:8:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L00195
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8 (pt 1/16)
Character Range: 128875–132134

8               Management practices and guidance for decision-makers

8.1                 Interaction with existing plans, policies and programs
This recovery plan is influenced by, responds to, complements and/or overlaps a range of other strategies and plans, operating from national to property level, and with contrasting specificity of focus. This plan refers to many of these directly or has the potential to interact with them and, in most instances, does not intend to restate relevant actions or information contained in them. This plan does, however, seek to identify common approaches and actions between these existing plans and programs to provide an integrated and efficient approach to the management of threatened species across the distribution of Mahogany Glider. Activities defined in this plan will be brought to the attention of planners responsible for the development of future plans of management (in general, or for specific management issues, such as fire) for affected areas and regions, such that they can be explicitly included, or encompassed within broader activities, in such plans.
Management practices (policies, plans, strategies) that have a complementary role in supporting recovery of the Mahogany Glider include, but aren't limited to, the following:
National
    * Approved Conservation Advice for Broad Leaf Tea-tree (Melaleuca viridiflora) Woodlands in High Rainfall Coastal North Queensland (2012)
    * Approved Conservation Advice for Myrmecodia beccarii (2008)
    * Far North Queensland, Local Government, Regional Pest Management Strategy, 2010–2015 (2010)
    * National recovery plan for the bare-rumped sheathtail bat Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus (2007)
    * National recovery plan for the southern cassowary Casuarius casuarius johnsonii (2007)
    * National Threatened Species Strategy (2015)
    * Threat abatement plan for disease in natural ecosystems caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi (2014).
State
    * Queensland Coastal Plan (2011)
    * State Policy for Vegetation Management: Version 3 (2013).
Regional and Local
    * Caring for Country and Culture - The Wet Tropics Aboriginal Cultural and Natural Resource Management Plan (2005)
    * Far North Queensland, Local Government, Regional Pest Management Strategy, 2010–2015
    * Girringun Region Indigenous Protected Areas Plan 2013–2023
    * Townsville, Hinchinbrook and Cassowary Coast Local Government Area Biosecurity Management Plans
    * Townsville, Hinchinbrook and Cassowary Coast local government planning schemes
    * Wet Tropics Conservation Strategy: the conservation, rehabilitation and transmission to future generations of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (2004)
    * Wet Tropics Plan for People and Country (2016).

8.2                 Guidance for decision-makers
The EPBC Act Significant Impact Guidelines 1.1 – Matters of National Environmental Significance (Department of the Environment, 2013) sets out criteria under which an action may have a significant impact on an endangered species, such as the Mahogany Glider. Under these criteria, a proponent should consider carefully any actions that may impact the Mahogany Glider, which include:
    * Clearing of vegetation, remnant or non-remnant, within any