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activities during water mouse survey programs and while caring for water mouse on Country.
    * Leading and participating in research programs to improve the long-term prospects for the water mouse.
Collaboration
The water mouse occurs in areas with multiple overlapping or adjacent parties that are responsible for, or have an interest in, long-term sustainable management of the land under their custodianship. The requirement within the Water Mouse Recovery Plan to develop and implement adaptive management and monitoring plans for all water mouse locations provides an additional platform for increasing management collaboration among land and sea managers and Custodians from multiple agencies and experiences.

5.5                  Ecological co-benefits
The sustainable management of water mouse habitat and areas that support recovery benefits coastal and subcoastal ecosystems that provide protection, and fish nurseries including intertidal mangroves and saltmarshes. It also supports the stabilisation and recovery of threatened ecological communities such as paperbark (Melaleuca) and she-oak (Casuarina) wetlands, and coastal heathland (or wallum) swamps. Protection and sustainable management of these ecosystems assists with ensuring the long-term viability of threatened plants and animals that also inhabit these areas for all or part of their life cycle, such as swamp orchids (Phaius spp.), wallum frogs, flying-foxes (Pteropus spp.), and migratory shorebirds.
Effective management of invasive predators, introduced feral pigs and large herbivores, weeds and fire in coastal wetlands for the water mouse will have co-benefits for species and ecosystems that are also impacted by these threats.

5.6                  Plan implementation and evaluation
This Recovery Plan will run for ten years from the time of adoption and its implementation will be managed by the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW). The Water Mouse Recovery Team will be supported by DCCEEW to oversee recovery actions, compile and distribute information, and disseminate updates among partners, to assist with implementing their adaptive management plans.
Mid-term review
There will be an external review of the recovery program in the fifth year from when it was endorsed and made publicly available. The review team will assess the performance of the plan against the performance criteria outlined for each action and determine:
    * If the plan continues unchanged, is varied to remove completed actions, or varied to include new conservation priorities
    * If a recovery plan is no longer necessary for the species because either a Conservation Advice will suffice, or the species is removed from the threatened species list.
The Water Mouse Recovery Plan will be considered to be progressing if by 2028:
    * > 95 % of coastal developments and their impact footprints within the modelled distribution of the water mouse are appropriately assessed and regulated to ensure impacts on the national water mouse population are effectively mitigated,