A total of 7 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 and implement education and awareness programs about bushfires (including how high-frequency fire can impact on biodiversity). | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| Develop protocols for minimising risk to fire-sensitive species and ecosystems when undertaking fuel-reduction burning. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Habitat management: Fire |
| Design burning prescriptions for purposes of maintaining ecological processes. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Monitoring |
| Establish monitoring sites to provide basis for long-term monitoring of impacts of fire regimes and fire events. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare Statement of Intent by 2009. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| Identify fire-sensitive species and ecological communities. | High |
| Support research examining the effects of different fire regimes on biodiversity. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies |
| Support implementation of the Bush Fire Environmental Assessment Code and provide information relevant to maintaining Threatened Species Hazard Reduction List. | High |
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