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Recovery Planning process is a new approach the Australian Government is using to make Recovery Plans for Threatened Species especially for those species of cultural significance.

 How we made this plan
 This Recovery Plan is the culmination of many meetings and discussions held between 2011 and 2021.

 Steve McAlpin wrote a lot of the background ecology information, which has been updated with the results of more recent surveys and research projects.

 Many people contributed to the Conservation Advice and IUCN review in 2016 and 2017.

 Following the compilation of a local Recovery Plan for Tjakura in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankuytjatjara Lands (Partridge 2008), other groups conducted local consultations to produce their own regional plans for Great Desert Skink work in their areas (e.g. Tjakura Rangers on the Katiti Petermann Indigenous Protected Area (IPA)).

 The idea to write an Indigenous-led Recovery Plan was sparked at a meeting of Tjakura experts from Punmu, Nyirripi and Kiwirrkurra at Australian Wildlife Conservancy's Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in April 2018 where groups shared knowledge about Tjakura cultural information, monitoring and management. This meeting instigated discussions about sustainable hunting of Tjakura, and the groups made a statement that as Rangers they don't endorse eating Tjakura anymore.
 Tjakura knowledge sharing sessions were held at the annual IDA conferences in both 2018 and 2019.
 The 2019 conference also included a mapping session with the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) to update the known distribution across the desert, and a field trip to demonstrate burrow monitoring surveys on the Katiti Petermann IPA near Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park (UKTNP).

 Support staff from multiple Indigenous land management groups in NT, WA and SA and Australian Wildlife Conservancy, had several phone meetings in 2020 and 2021 with DAWE to further develop the idea of creating an Indigenous-led Recovery Plan, as well as organising collaborative activities to conduct surveys together, and to learn from and inspire each other.

 In September 2021 DCCEEW contracted the IDA to lead the writing of the new Recovery Plan. Between October and December 2021 the IDA held Tjakura workshops in Fitzroy Crossing, Wiluna, Yulara and Alice Springs to give Ranger groups and other land management organisations involved with Tjakura work the opportunity to share knowledge and ideas and to set priorities for the new Recovery Plan.

 The Fitzroy Crossing meeting was a short information session attended by Ranger teams from Kiwirrkurra, Ngururrpa, Paruku, Ngurra Kayanta, Gooniyandi, Ngururra, Nyangumarta, Karajarri, Yawaru, and Nyamal.

 The Wiluna workshop was attended by Rangers representing Punmu, Birriliburu IPA, Matuwa Kurara IPA, Wakamurru and Gingirana.

 The Yulara workshop was attended by UKTNP Rangers, Central Land Council (CLC) Rangers from Docker River, Angas Downs and Mutijulu, and staff and Indigenous