Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747:reg:9:p7
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024L01747
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 7/20)
Character Range: 324560–332568

9.5. Maintain and increase broad public support for improved cat management near human habitation and infrastructure, for conservation, cat welfare, human health, and livestock production outcomes                                                Project 1: Improving community understanding and involvement
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 2: Social licence to support existing and novel control
Support management                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2. Improving existing management
Enhance use of existing control options
4.1. Improve the use of toxins                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Project 3: Economics of cat management and control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 4: Assessing and prioritising existing control strategies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 5: Refining lethal technologies, lures and deterrents
4.3. Continue to refine and adapt Felixer™ grooming traps; facilitate their availability in all states and territories; complete field trials and refinements and gain approval for using PAPP in the Felixer™ grooming traps, in addition to 1080  Project 3: Economics of cat management and control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 4: Assessing and prioritising existing control strategies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 5: Refining lethal technologies, lures and deterrents
4.4. Evaluate other euthanasia options for live-trapped feral cats that may increase overall humaneness                                                                                                                                             Project 3: Economics of cat management and control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 4: Assessing and prioritising existing control strategies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 5: Refining lethal technologies, lures and deterrents
4.5. Collaborate with a recreational shooting group to trial the value of sustained shooting programs to reduce feral cat impacts on native species                                                                                                 Project 3: Economics of cat management and control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 4: Assessing and prioritising existing control strategies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 5: Refining lethal technologies, lures and deterrents
4.6. Continue research to explore the potential of new attractants to draw cats to control or monitoring points                                                                                                                                     Project 3: Economics of cat management and control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 4: Assessing and prioritising existing control strategies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 5: Refining lethal technologies, lures and deterrents
4.7. Carry out trials to establish whether guardian dogs can effectively repel cats, and benefit native species                                                                                                                                     Project 3: Economics of cat management and control
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 4: Assessing and prioritising existing control strategies
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Project 5: Refining lethal technologies, lures and deterrents
8.5. Carry out research to evaluate if/ how dingo management affects feral cat abundance and impacts and could aid ecosystem resilience                                                                                                             Project 7: Integrated introduced predator control
8.6. Carry out research to evaluate if/ how devil management affects cat impacts and could aid ecosystem resilience                                                                                                                                 Project 7: Integrated introduced predator control
8.4. Develop habitat-specific recommendations for fire patterns to aim for during prescribed burning, and thresholds of introduced herbivore grazing, that will minimise cat impacts                                                                Project 6: Land management practices, including Indigenous knowledge
Develop novel control options                                                                                                                                                                                                                       4. Developing novel management
4.10. Develop a detailed plan for progressing gene drive, structured into stages with clear decision points and risk assessments                                                                                                                    Project 10: Gene editing: molecular studies on genes of interest
4.9. Continue research on immunocontraception to develop approaches with improved efficacy over sustained periods, and feasible