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5-year assessment of progress will be reviewed by the Australian Minister for the Environment.
A comprehensive review of the implementation and success of the plan will be undertaken in Year 10 of the Plan as a foundation for the development of a revised 10-year plan. This review will consider, inter alia, trends in the status of the species and its habitat, effectiveness of actions described in this plan, new research findings and emerging issues, policy context, management capability and resourcing, and stakeholder satisfaction with governance and other matters.

8.2.2             Variation and adaptation
This plan recognises a need for some flexibility and adaptation, due to some substantial uncertainties in knowledge of aspects of the species' biology, and about the likelihood of success of some management actions, as well as the likelihood of somewhat unpredictable episodes of acute and severe threat. The 2009 bushfires had a severe impact on the conservation outlook for Leadbeater's possum. Should a comparable extensive bushfire occur over the life of this plan, there may be need for rapid responses in the conservation management of this species. Such response may include adaptation within this Recovery Plan, to re-prioritise some actions, or to establish new actions. Adaptation within the plan should be guided by the regular reporting described above, and should generally fit within the broad framework described in this plan. Any such needed adaptation in this plan should be overseen by the recovery team or other coordinating group.

8.3                 Potential benefits and impacts associated with implementation

8.3.1             Broader biodiversity benefits
Actions taken for the recovery of Leadbeater's possum are likely to provide substantial benefits to many other native species and to the ecological communities with which it is associated – montane ash forests, snow gum woodlands and lowland swamp forests.
Management actions, plans and policies that seek to reduce the decline in (and eventually increase) the abundance of hollow-bearing trees across the range of Leadbeater's possum are likely to provide benefits to many other hollow-nesting species, including other possums, gliders, bats, owls, parrots, cockatoos, treecreepers, owlet-nightjars and kookaburras, for which available hollows may be limiting (Lindenmayer and Sato 2018).
Management actions, plans and policies that seek to reduce the incidence of extensive, high intensity bushfires in montane ash forests, and other habitats used by Leadbeater's possum, will benefit many species that are associated with older-aged forest stands or are likely to suffer substantial mortality due to severe fire and its associated factors (for example, increased predation impacts post-fire). Examples include superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), Bassian thrush (Zoothera lunulata), sooty owl, yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis) and greater glider (southern and central) (Loyn 1985; Macfarlane 1988; Milledge et al. 1991). Two threatened plants (the shiny nematolepis (Nematolepis wilsonii) and the