Recovery actions

Recovery actions are the things people can do to help threatened plants and animals survive: to bring them back from the brink of extinction. For example, this might involve:

• Research, to investigate the needs of a threatened species more closely, or to find out more about what's threatening it.
• Management of the species or its threats. This can take many forms, such as pest control, bush regeneration, fencing and site protection, fire management, and captive breeding programs.
• Communication and cooperation between the people and organisations who can help the species to recover - from landholders to community groups to government bodies.

• Recovery plans. These detailed documents are available for a large number of the state's threatened species, populations and ecological communities. They set out conservation requirements and recovery actions for the species, and outline the people and organisations who will carry out these actions. You can download them from the NPWS website.
• Threat abatement plans. These comprehensive plans are developed to tackle the state's 'key threatening processes' - from foxes and feral cats to land clearing and firewood collection. The plans outline actions to manage these threats, and explain how the actions can be put into effect. They are available on the NPWS website.
• NSW Priority Action Statement 2005. This document will be released on 30 November 2005. It will give an overview of recovery actions for all NSW threatened species, populations and ecological communities. It will also establish relative priorities and timetables for carrying out these recovery actions, and will establish performance indicators to monitor the progress of each species' recovery.