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existing plans to support the management of common pressures and the conservation of species, their habitats and the wider ecosystems of Norfolk Island. Such plans include the Norfolk Island Marine Park Plan, the Norfolk Island National Park and Norfolk Island Botanic Garden Management Plan, and the Wildlife Conservation Plan for Seabirds, among others. Interactions with other plans are discussed in more detail in Section 5.2.

1.1.2        Legislative and administrative context
Norfolk Island is an external Territory of Australia administered by the Australian Government through the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts (DITRDCA). The Australian Government is responsible for the delivery of national and state‑type services to Norfolk Island. Norfolk Island Regional Council is responsible for local government functions on Norfolk Island and may deliver some state-type functions under agreements with DITRDCA.
The EPBC Act has been in force on Norfolk Island since 1999. The Act is the Australian Government's central piece of environmental legislation. It provides a legal framework to protect and manage nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities, and heritage places—defined in the EPBC Act as Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES). MNES on Norfolk Island include:
    * World Heritage properties
    * nationally threatened species and ecological communities
    * migratory species
    * Commonwealth marine areas.
The EPBC Act requires that an action that will have, or is likely to have, a significant impact on MNES must be referred to the Minister for the Environment for a decision on whether assessment and approval is required under the EPBC Act. The EPBC act also requires that an approved Conservation Advice be in place for entities listed as threatened. The Minister for the Environment decides whether a Recovery Plan is also required for threatened species.
Management of threatened species on Norfolk Island requires the input, contribution and coordination of multiple organisations. The relevant organisations and their role and responsibilities in relation to terrestrial threatened species are described in Section 5.1.
The Australian Government's Threatened Species Action Plan 2022–2032 sets targets and objectives for threatened species recovery and conservation over ten years (DCCEEW 2022b). Under the Action Plan, Norfolk Island has been identified as one of 20 priority places and the Norfolk Island green parrot (Cyanoramphus cookii) as one of 110 priority species.

1.1.3        International obligations
There are 32 bird species that occur in the Norfolk Island Group that are subject to one or more of the bilateral migratory bird agreements with Japan (Japan Australia Migratory Bird Agreement [JAMBA]), China (China Australia Migratory Bird Agreement [CAMBA]) and the Republic of Korea (Republic of Korea Migratory Bird Agreement [ROKMBA]). Of those species, two are listed threatened species (Table 8). This plan provides recovery guidance for those two species,