A total of 11 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: Community and land-holder liaison/ awareness and/or education |
| Deliver a targeted education campaign to the landscaping and gardening industries regarding the biodiversity impacts of bushrock removal. | Medium |
| Prepare and distribute education and extension material to promote general community awareness of the impacts of bushrock removal on biodiversity. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Coordinate the recovery and/or threat abatement program |
| Coordinate the effective implementation of the threat abatement program. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| In consultation with industry groups and other public authorities, investigate options for reducing the impact of bushrock removal on biodiversity through incentive schemes, regulation and/or the development of codes of practice. | Medium |
| Prepare a National Parks & Wildlife policy directive on the use of bushrock in national parks. | Medium |
| Prepare and distribute environmental impact assessment guidelines for activities that involve bushrock removal. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Measure response to control |
| Monitor the effectiveness of control actions at key sites. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Other Action |
| Encourage the development of alternatives to the use of bushrock in landscaping. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare a Statement of Intent by 2007. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare TAP |
| Prepare a NSW Threat Abatement Plan by 2010. . | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prioritise control actions |
| Identify and prioritise sites for control actions. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies |
| Review provisions of local environment plans with a view to incorporating consideration of the biodiversity impacts of bushrock removal. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Determine where and how much bushrock is being collected in NSW, and which species are being impacted by this. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Undertake control actions |
| Implement control actions at priority sites. | High |
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