Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00432:reg:6:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2023L00432
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 1/20)
Character Range: 80630–83600

6               Strategies and actions
The recovery of the Greater Bilby requires on-ground (or direct) strategies to minimise or compensate for the threats to the objectives (Section 5). Supporting strategies provide for governance to coordinate actions and make the best use of available resources, including assistance to Indigenous and other land managers such as graziers, pastoralists and mining companies. Supporting strategies also provide for research to improve the effectiveness of actions, monitoring and survey methods, data analysis and reporting, so that progress can be consistently measured and management actions adapted.
A strategy outlines the way a threat to the objectives, or set of related threats, will be eliminated, reduced, or compensated for. A strategy can also be considered a sub-plan that groups related actions together. Actions describe what will be done, and to the extent practicable, where it will be done and by whom.
Strategies and actions in this plan have been identified on the basis of:
    * Effect on objectives – it is believed that if an action is implemented, it will contribute to achieving the objectives either directly, or indirectly by reducing the effects of a threat to recovery.
    * Feasibility – it is believed that partners are willing to act, have the skills and experience to act, and have existing capacity or capacity that can be improved with additional resources.
Bilbies mainly persist in areas that have a sparse human population density where it is difficult and expensive to implement works without using the experience and capacity of local communities and local land managers. Local communities, landholders and land managers are likely to have the best understanding of local constraints, and can adapt activities to respond to local conditions. In particular, the skills, expertise, experience, connection to Country and capacity of Traditional Owners and Indigenous land managers are likely to be critical to the protection and recovery of the Greater Bilby.
For these reasons, on-ground actions are more feasible in the least-populated areas when targeted to local communities, using the locally effective techniques and practices most familiar to the community. It is further recognised that, given over 70 % of the distribution of bilbies occurring as wild populations occur on lands managed by Indigenous people and organisations, the continued survival of the species is likely to be intrinsically linked to healthy and resilient Indigenous communities managing and exercising their traditional custodianship of the land.
To allow local communities and land managers to influence how, where, and when actions are implemented, actions in this plan are framed to allow a flexible approach to implementation that will suit the local conditions, resources and skill base.
The relationship between supporting strategies, on-ground strategies, performance criteria and objectives can be found at