A total of 9 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 |
| Undertake a community education and awareness program to increase understanding of the environmental impacts of feral cats and the need for their control. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| Develop best practice guidelines for managing feral cats. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare statement of intent in 2007 explaining how feral cats will be managed. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare TAP |
| Prepare a NSW TAP. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prioritise control actions |
| Prioritise feral cat control based on a review of the evidence of cat impacts. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| Develop and trial a cat-specific bait that will ensure non-target species are not impacted. | High |
| Develop cost-effective methods for broad-scale control of feral cats. | High |
| Undertake research in regard to better understanding predator interactions. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies |
| List predation by the feral cat as a key threatening process under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Identify the biodiversity most at risk from predation by feral cats. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Undertake control actions |
| Trial Western Australian cat bait at selected priority sites. | High |
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