Recovery Plan actions

In a Recovery Plan, a range of operational activities, or actions, will often be identified as necessary to help improve the conservation status of a threatened plant, species or ecological community. These can include:

• improve knowledge of the species (eg distribution) and determine habitat requirements
• identify and quantify threatening processes
• reduce the risk of catastrophic events - such as fire - having an impact on populations
• reduce the risk of population size being limited by predation or grazing
• improve community awareness and involvement
• avoid human impact such as vehicle damage, trampling, weed spraying and rubbish dumping
• improve habitat quality, for example by:
  - controlling livestock
  - controlling weeds
  - fencing remnant vegetation
  - revegetating to increase habitat and restore habitat links
  - prescribed burning to enhance germination and seedling establishment, and provide habitats of different age class and structure after fire
• move threatened plants or animals if appropriate (eg boost the size of a population or reintroduce a species to an area that it once inhabited)
• monitor populations/habitat and evaluate the success of the actions.