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 |
| Develop community education and awareness material on impacts of removal of dead wood and dead trees (including the need for sustainable firewood collection). | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| Finalise policy on firewood collection on land reserved under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Establish management agreements with public authorities CMAs and land managers/owners |
| Examine the effectiveness and/or need for joint agreements with other State jurisdictions to specifically address the isue of commercial collection of firewood. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Other Action |
| Promote and support industry-based scheme certifying compliance by firewood suppliers to the Voluntary Code of Practice. | High |
| Investigate the practicality of promoting commercial firewood collection from post-harvest woody debris in State Forest and private plantations. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare Statement of Intent by 2007. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare TAP |
| Prepare a NSW TAP by 2010. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| Improve the efficiency of firewood use in wood heaters. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Determine the extent and intensity of impacts on biodiversity of firewood collection. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Survey/Mapping and Habitat assessment |
| Determine the locations, mechanisms and scale of firewood collection. | High |
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