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                        3.2 Establish current distribution of Tjakura across Australia by conducting surveys around edge of range                     Field surveys conducted at previously known sites or likely habitat outside currently known range in northwest, southwest, northeast and southeast   Baseline map of current distribution                                                                                      Refined map of current distribution completed by 2025
                        Contribute records to government databases with caveats on how the data can be used after discussion with community members
                        3.3 Determine number of known subpopulations by conducting surveys in gaps                                                    Targeted trackplot surveys conducted between known locations                                                                                         Improved knowledge of number of sub- populations for future status monitoring, and to identify key sites for management   # New sites detected

                                                                                                                                                      Survey data and opportunistic observations of new locations added to state and national databases                                                                                                                                                                              Map of all known sub-populations completed by 2025

 Aim: Each year effective fire management protects Tjakura burrows from being burnt

 Many monitoring programs have shown that Tjakura disappear from sites if their burrows are burnt. We think this is because it becomes too easy for predators to hunt them when the spinifex cover is removed.

 Fire management is the most important and achievable conservation action that can be conducted to protect Tjakura. Because populations tend to occur at relatively high densities in discrete areas, targeted burning
 can be planned to minimise the risk of fires affecting
 Tjakura habitat.

  "We don't want to make a fire next to the piti (burrow) where that Tjakura is, we want to burn long way from their ngurra (home), because they need protection too, you know. Don't destroy their ngurra"
  Annette Williams, Wiluna, October 2021

 At Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, intensive fire management has successfully kept fire out of the main Tjakura sites for the past 15 years. On the Kiwirrkurra IPA traditional burning has maintained a finescale
 fire regime where mean fire size over the past 40 years is 125 ha and the median fire size is only 5ha.
 The Tjakura Rangers conduct night burning to establish fire breaks to protect burrows on the Katiti Petermann IPA. At Punmu rangers use rake-hoes or drag car tyres around burrows to create narrow fire breaks within Tjakura habitat.

 Photograph 15. Conducting burning to protect Tjakura sites on a cold winter night when fires are easiest to control.

 Source: Katiti Petermann IPA
   Strategy 4: Fire Management

 Aim                                                                             Action                                                                                          Outputs                                                                                                                   Outcomes                                                                Measurable Indicator
 Each year effective fire management protects Tjakura burrows from being burnt   4.1 Incorporate burns to protect Tjakura sites in fire management plans each year               Annual fire management plans include targeted management for at least 8 Tjakura sub- populations                          Reduced threat of fire burning                                          # Fire management plans that include strategic burns to protect Tjakura sites
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           burrows in at least 8 subpopulations
                                                                                 4.2 Conduct strategic