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Leadbeater's Possum Advisory Group
    * MNES Matters of National Environmental Significance
    * NFPS National Forest Policy Statement 1992
    * NGO Non-government organisation
    * PV  Parks Victoria
    * PVA Population viability analysis
    * RFA Regional Forest Agreement
    * SMZ Special Management Zone
    * SPZ Special Protection Zone
    * TSSC Threatened Species Scientific Committee (a statutory committee under the EPBC Act)

10.2           Definitions
The following definitions help explain or clarify some technical terms used in the body of this plan. Where appropriate, definition of some of these terms have been sourced from the Leadbeater's Possum Advisory Group Technical Report 2014 (LPAG 2014b).
Buffer area – a circumscribed distance or area around a particular feature, whose protection from a designated threat helps to protect the feature itself.
Bushfire – under the Victorian Code of Practice for Bushfire Management on Public Land, a bushfire is defined as a general term used to describe a fire in any vegetation. Within this plan, the term bushfire is used exclusively for wildfires (that is, those triggered through natural processes, lightning, accidental or deliberate human ignition) and does not encapsulate planned burning activities.
CAR reserve system – "The CAR (comprehensive, adequate and representative) reserve system comprises areas of both public and private land that are reserved specifically for conservation purposes, and where the tenure of the reserved areas is secured by legislation or other methods appropriate for the area concerned…… All reasonable effort should be made to provide for biodiversity and old-growth forest conservation and wilderness in the Dedicated Reserve system on public land. However, where it is demonstrated that it is not possible or practicable to meet the criteria in the Dedicated Reserve system, other approaches will be required" (Joint ANZECC/MCFFA National Forest Policy Statement Implementation Sub-committee 1997).
Central Highlands – the higher elevation forested area to the north-east of Melbourne broadly encapsulated by the Central Highlands RFA area. In this plan the Central Highlands population of Leadbeater's possum represents the montane ash and snow gum habitat and does not include the lowland population at Yellingbo. The recent findings of Leadbeater's possums to the east of the Central Highlands RFA area has extended the range outside of this area, however for simplicity in this plan and unless otherwise indicated the full range is still called the Central Highlands.
Clearfall / clear-felling – silvicultural method of harvesting a coupe whereby all merchantable trees, apart from those to be retained for wildlife habitat, are removed.
Colony – for Leadbeater's possum, a social group that dens together, comprising a breeding pair and associated non-breeding individuals.
Coupe – as defined in the Victorian Sustainable Forests (Timber) Act 2004 means a specific area of state forest identified for the purposes of a