Action title
|
Scientific name
|
Common name
|
Type of species
|
Priority |
Implement the proposed Lord Howe Island rodent eradication plan. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Implement weed control program to remove or contain infestations where the species occurs, particularly of asparagus fern. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Continue to implement biosecurity strategies on Lord Howe Island to prevent the establishment of exotic pests or pathogens. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Implement program to control African big-headed ants on Lord Howe Island. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Animal >
Birds |
High
|
Ensure appropriate environmental assessment is undertaken when assessing development proposals. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Liaise with leaseholders and visitors regarding protection and management of remnant and significant vegetation in the settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Provide assistance for leaseholders to protect significant remnant vegetation in the settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage invertebrate and vertebrate habitat protection in the settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Minimise impacts of Kentia palm seed collecting. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Educate residents and visitors on the potential impacts of collection on the biodiversity value of fauna of the LHIG. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Conduct a review of legislation to ensure there is adequate legislative power, particularly in regard to invertebrates to prevent illegal collection. Lobby for changes to legislation. Amend Regulations where appropriate and possible. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Ensure that appropriate LHIB staff have statutory authority and training to undertake law enforcement activities. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
LHIB to enhance relationships with regulatory authorities concerned with the trade of biological materials. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Ensure appropriate licences are issued for persons undertaking collections for research purposes. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Establish a list of terrestrial invertebrates of the LHIG that may have commercial value. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate the feasibility of commercial captive breeding of terrestrial invertebrates in terms of a biodiversity benefit. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Restrict access to offshore islands that are significant for invertebrate species, particularly Balls Pyramid, Blackburn and Roach Islands. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Establish protocols to keep significant invertebrate localities secure. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Promote visitor awareness of the importance to stay on walking tracks. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish an appropriate hygiene protocols for access to Mount Gower. This would include options such as cleaning of footwear. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Investigate options for placement of composting toilet at the entrance to the Mount Gower walking track. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Ensure researchers are aware of sensitive areas prior to field work commencing. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage tourists, residents, researchers and management staff to adopt minimal impact bushwalking practices. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Protect threatened plant habitats from adverse impacts of visitation. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Monitor areas identified at risk from climate change. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish monitoring sites in as many "at risk" areas as possible, including Mangroves, Sallywood Swamp Forest, cloud forest, high parts of the northern hills. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish long-term monitoring sites of terrestrial invertebrates and selected flora (including non-vascular flora) along an altitudinal gradient in the southern mountains. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Develop and implement a monitoring program to assess the impacts of climate change on invertebrate lifecycles and ‘at risk’ flora e.g. Knicker Nut, Chamaesyce psammogeton, Geniostoma huttonii, Polystichum moorei, and Xylosma parvifolium. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish a climate monitoring station at higher altitudes. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate options for securing species identified as most at risk from climate change. Investigate propagation and ex-situ storage techniques for species restricted to cloud forests, including both seed banking and living collections. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Prepare nominations for species, populations, ecological communities or critical habitat as required. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Assess the appropriateness of nominating vegetation communities identified as being of conservation concern. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Assess the appropriateness of nominating identified invertebrates as threatened. This includes seven endemic ant species, 38 endemic beetles, and nine endemic spiders. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Habitat of Knicker Nut, Calystegia affinis, Chamaesyce psammogeton and Polystichum moorei in settlement area must be protected from clearing and fenced where possible to protect from trampling or grazing. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Grass invasion, specifically Kikuyu, is impacting the viability of the Calystegia affinis population at Old Settlement. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control the introduced Buffalo and Kikuyu grasses threatening the Caesalpinia bonduc population at Neds Beach. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Cherry Guava, Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily to be controlled in Carmichaelia exsul sites. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Weed control in Chamaesyce psammogeton sites will need to be opportunistically undertaken to new weed species incursion. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Coprosma inopinata habitat should be monitored for any weed incursions, and any weeds treated as a priority. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control Crofton weed and Tiger Lily in Polystichum moorei habitat in the southern mountains where sites are accessible. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Undertake monitoring of threatened flora populations. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Establish ex-situ populations of threatened flora. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control introduced invertebrates that are impacting upon threatened flora in settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Adverse impacts from tourism at the Calystegia affinis site to be minimised, and the boardwalk in the area to be maintained. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Impacts of visitation at Caesalpinia bonduc sites needs to be monitored and any adverse impacts need to be minimised, by either signage or fencing. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Access to the southern population of Coprosma inopinata should be restricted to essential research and management only and access permitted only with information on how to minimise adverse impacts on site. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct priority fauna species research. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Conduct research on the ecology of the LHI Currawong. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Design and implement monitoring programs to evaluate effectiveness of recovery actions on listed threatened fauna. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Zone all mapped Flesh-footed Shearwater nesting habitat as Environmental Protection or significant vegetation. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Rehabilitate areas within grazing leases where Flesh-footed Shearwaters are continuing to nest as well as additional areas where possible that are within the 1978 mapped distribution. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Protect and enhance habitat for the Lord Howe Island Silvereye. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Enhance and protect habitat for the LHI Wood-eating Cockroach. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Protect and enhance Lord Howe Island Earthworm habitat through minimising access to stream edges by visitors to Mount Gower. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Protect habitat of the White-bellied Storm-petrel and Kermadec Petrel breeding populations on Balls Pyramid through restricting access. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Protect and enhance Red-tailed Tropicbird habitat. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Protect and enhance Little Shearwater habitat. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Maintain existing rodent baiting program and review with regard to expanding the program to seasonally cover seasonal breeding areas for affected sea birds. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Ensure strict quarantine protocols are implemented for access to all offshore islands to prevent rodents from establishing on these islands. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Promote the re-establishment of White-bellied Storm-petrel and Kermadec Petrel breeding populations on the main Island through rodent eradication or control on Mount Gower. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Assess the impact of the introduced Masked Owl predation on threatened fauna. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Reduce the amount of plastic bags in use on LHIG and encourage their responsible disposal. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Provide support to efforts to reduce bycatch of sea birds by long-line fishing operations. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the Lord Howe Island Phasmid Interim Recovery Actions. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement the Lord Howe Placostylus recovery actions. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Protect habitat of the Lord Howe Island Gecko and Lord Howe Island Skink. Developments that would remove habitat for these two species would require assessment under the EP&A Act 1979 and the Commonwealth EPBC Act 1999. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Determine the distribution and status of the Lord Howe Island Gecko and Lord Howe Island Skink where the two species are likely but not known to occur (Admiralty Group, Gower Island and Muttonbird Island). |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Design and enforce quarantine protocols for residents and visitors travelling to offshore islands to minimise the risk that rodents, the introduced skink and frog, diseases and pathogens are not introduced to offshore islands. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
The biology and ecology of at least one population for the LHI Gecko and LHI skink should be studied. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate the impact of the Grass Skink and the Bleating Tree Frog on the main island on the Lord Howe Island Skink and Lord Howe Island Gecko. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the Lord Howe Island Woodhen Recovery Plan. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement the high priority components of the LHIB Quarantine Strategy on the Lord Howe Island Group and mainland departure points (managing threats and habitats). |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement the remaining components of the LHIB Quarantine Strategy (managing threats and habitats). |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the LHIB Plant Importation Policy (managing threats and habitat). |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Increase production of local native plants for use in the settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Develop a rapid response and detection protocol for new introductions of weeds and exotic fauna (managing threats and habitat). |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Regularly update mapping to reflect outcomes from implementation programs and review effectiveness of implementation programs on annual basis. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Complete Lord Howe Island Multi species management plan by 2006. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Develop and implement measures to minimise the impacts of introduced flora and fauna pathogens (managing threats and habitat). |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Develop and implement a set of phytosanitary guidelines for walkers to minimise the risk of introducing pests, weeds and disease to the LHIG. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Develop and implement a strategy to control the spread of Phytophthora cinnamomi in the settlement area (managing threats and habitat). |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct a detailed survey for the presence of Phytophthora cinnamomi. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Test LHIG native species potential to be susceptible to Phytophthora cinnamomi. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the high priority tasks in the LHIB Strategic Plan for Weed Management. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Implement other tasks of the LHI Strategic Plan for Weed Management. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Continue weed mapping programs to include problem species that have not been mapped, e.g. distribution of exotic grasses on offshore islands. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Continue inventory and monitoring of weed distribution and spread. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Develop a weed monitoring program. This program would identify key points to be monitored and include feedback loops. Monitoring outcomes should be mapped to provide data for future analyses. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate and implement funding incentive schemes for weed management on leases in settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Identify and implement safe techniques and training in remote and dangerous terrain. Target weed species include Bitou Bush, Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Monitor weed spread and distribution. Weed spread and distribution to be monitored on a regular basis to provide information on weed status in remote areas. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Establish a rapid response protocol to control any outbreaks of significant weeds such as Cherry Guava in the southern mountains. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Prepare promotional material and activity program to increase weed awareness for both islanders and visitors. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Run tours visiting weed management sites. Any profits made should be used for further weed management. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Continue regular weed inspections of leases in settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Ensure careful use of herbicide in invertebrate hotspot areas and threatened flora and fauna habitat. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Use a gradual approach to weed control in invertebrate hotspot areas so that invertebrates have an opportunity to move or recover in untreated or previously treated areas. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Ensure staff and volunteers are adequately trained in herbicide use and are using the most effective and target-specific chemical and application methods. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Support research into the control and biology of major weed species of Lord Howe Island, including research into weed control techniques. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate current research into the biological control of weed species, particularly Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily, which are problems in inaccessible areas. Initiate and support any funding proposals for research in this area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
LHIB staff to work with leaseholders to undertake weed control, in conjunction with revegetation in degraded Sallywood Swamp Forest sites 1, 2, 4 and 5 as identified in plan. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct bush regeneration sweeps, and control key weed species at Transit Hill. Key weeds to target include Cherry Guava, Cotoneaster, Pittosporum, Ground Asparagus and Climbing Asparagus. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Monitor for incursions by new weed species on Transit Hill. Any new outbreaks to be treated as a priority. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control Bitou Bush on the cliff lines of the northern hills of Malabar due to its predicted impact on sea birds. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control Bridal Creeper on Malabar, particularly Malabar Ridge. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct a Kikuyu control program on Dawson's Point, undertaken in conjunction with replacement by the native grass species Poa poiformis. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct a broad weed control program on Malabar, focus on Ground Asparagus and Climbing Asparagus, and also monitor and control any escaping weeds e.g. Privet ligustrum sinense, Cotoneaster, Grevillea robusta. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control exotic grasses on coastal dunes at Blinky Beach and Lagoon Foreshores particularly in the habitat of the endangered plant Chamaesyce psammogeton. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control exotic species e.g. Ipomea cairica and Euphorbia paralias where necessary, particularly in the habitat of the endangered plant Chamaesyce psammogeton. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Monitor for any new weed species on coastal dunes and remove as appropriate. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Exotic grass invasion to be controlled on offshore islands. Target weed species include Kikuyu and Rhodes Grass. Exotic species to be replaced with appropriate native species. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Monitor for any new weed species on offshore islands, particularly of exotic grasses. Any new weed species to be treated as a priority. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control weeds in remnant vegetation, and particularly significant vegetation communities in settlement area including Mangrove, Lowland Mixed Forest, Poa poiformis and Greybark-Blackbutt on calcarenite/coral sand. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control weeds in significant watercourses.
Significant watercourses include those at Old Settlement, Cobby's Creek, the Soldiers Creek basin of the southern settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Control weeds in selected priority sites in settlement area including from Neds Beach to Middle Beach and Blinky Beach,. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control exotic grasses at Lagoon foreshores, Lovers Bay, Old Settlement and Ned's Beach. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue the current procedure by the LHIB to remove Norfolk Island Pines that are less than 6m. Encourage the removal of larger Norfolk Island Pines outside of areas that have been identified as culturally significant for the Norfolk Island Pine. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Bush regeneration sweeps to be undertaken in the southern mountains chiefly to control Cherry Guava, Cotoneaster, Ochna and Ground Asparagus and to monitor and treat incursions of any new weed species. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control exotic grasses and replace with native grass at Muttonbird Point. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control Crofton Weed and Tiger Lily in the habitat of the endangered plant Carmichaelia exsul at Eddies Cave, Mt Gower. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control of Crofton Weed on southern mountains, where accessible, and in priority communities including Waterfall Cliff, Upland Freshwater Stream, Dracophyllum-Metrosideros and Mixed Fern and Herb communities. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control of other key weed species (Tiger Lily, Cherry Guava, Cotoneaster, Ochna, Ground Asparagus and Bitou Bush) in southern mountains where accessible. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
At Little Island undertake control of Tiger Lily, Castor Oil, Crofton Weed, Cherry Guava and Paspalum. Encourage regeneration of native species. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement the high priority actions from the Lord Howe Island Vegetation Rehabilitation Plan. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Undertake remaining components from the Lord Howe Island Vegetation Rehabilitation Plan. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Revegetate selected degraded high conservation priority sites in Settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of selected Sallywood Swamp Forest Sites. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of Mangrove communities. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of selected watercourse areas. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage revegetation of cleared areas where appropriate. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Use best-practice regeneration principles. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Establish a monitoring program for revegetation projects. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Establish monitoring programs measure the success of programs. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Establish a set of marked photo points in a range of sites to assist with the monitoring of revegetation projects. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Undertake quadrat or transect sampling to measure changes to vegetation including species composition, height and canopy cover. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control the impacts of trampling, browsing and grazing by domestic stock by fencing selected Sallywood Swamp Forest, Mangrove and watercourse communities in settlement area. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Encourage fencing of other patches of remnant vegetation from domestic stock. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement erosion control measures in fenced areas wherever necessary. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Plant a buffer of hardy species on the edges of significant remnant vegetation patches, particularly those suffering from dieback. Natural regeneration of native species should also be encouraged on the edges of remnant vegetation patches. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Control introduced rodents. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue introduced rodent current baiting program. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Review existing baiting program to include additional baiting sites for biodiversity based outcomes. Consider inclusion of additional areas identified above. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Design and implement a monitoring program to evaluate the effectiveness of the program on reducing the threat of rodent predation on target species and locations. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Eradicate introduced rodents. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue studies where necessary to investigate rodent eradication. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Prepare a Species Impact Statement (under the TSC Act) for the proposal to eradicate introduced rodents. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Continue to evaluate opportunities to use rodent specific toxins. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Conduct research into the impacts of introduced vertebrate fauna on the biodiversity of the LHIG and investigate techniques for control or eradication. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate degree of threat through competition and predation posed by: the Australian Kestrel, Backbird, Bleating Tree-frog, Buff-Banded Rail, Feral Pigeon, Grass Skink, Mask Owl and Song thrush. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate techniques and feasibility of control or eradication for each species, based on the level of threat each species poses to native species of the LHIG. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement control or eradication techniques where available, feasible and effective. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct research into the impacts of introduced invertebrate fauna on the biodiversity of the LHIG and, investigate techniques for control or eradication. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate the threat posed by introduced invertebrates through targeted monitoring sites and research. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate techniques and feasibility for control or eradication based on the level of threat each species poses to the native species of the LHIG. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Implement control or eradication techniques where available, feasible and effective. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Investigate control methods for the Arsipoda beetle on Calystegia affinis site on Max Nicholls track. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
If control methods for the Arsipoda beetle are found that are effective and that do not pose a risk to Calystegia affinis, undertake a control program. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Monitor water quality in identified creek lines. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Monitor waste pollution including from the waste generation plant, runoff or aerial dispersal of chemicals/fertilisers used on Golf Course and other grassed areas. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Conduct checks to ensure that septic systems are functioning appropriately. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Investigate options for relocating septic systems away from creek lines. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Investigate options for alternative sewerage management e.g. composting toilets or clean technologies for onsite water treatment. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
High
|
Enhance positive interaction and reduce negative interactions between humans and the LHI Woodhen. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Low
|
Promote awareness to residents of Lord Howe Island of the threat to native species posed by Feral Pigeons. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|
Control or eradicate the Feral Pigeon population. |
Puffinus assimilis |
Little Shearwater |
Multiple
|
Medium
|