A total of 5 threat abatement strategies have been identified to help tackle this key threatening process. Each of these strategies has a number of priority actions within it. The table below shows these strategies and priority actions. You can also see details of the broad geographic regions each priority action applies to in New South Wales.
| Description of priority action | Priority |
|---|
| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| Prepare guidelines outlining key factors that should be considered when assessing impacts of new longwall mines on biodiversity. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Monitoring |
| Develop recommendations for monitoring impacts of new longwall mines on biodiversity and mitigation methods. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare Statement of Intent by 2008. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies |
| Ensure rigorous assessment of new mines continues through existing approval processes including the preparation of subsidence management plans. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Examine the effects of subsudence from longwall mining on priority ecosystems including streams, wetlands and threatened species, populations and ecological communities. | High |
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