DEC | NSW threatened species - Invasion of native plant communities by exotic perennial grasses

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.

For more general information about this key threatening process, see a detailed threat profile.

Description of priority action	Priority
Threat abatement strategy: Community and land-holder liaison/ awareness and/or education
Undertake community education and awareness program to increase understanding of the environmental impacts of perennial grasses and the need for their control.	Low
Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines
Develop best practice guidelines for managing exotic perennial grasses.	Medium
Threat abatement strategy: Establish management agreements with public authorities CMAs and land managers/owners
No detailed action specified at this stage.	Low
Threat abatement strategy: Measure response to control
No detailed action specified at this stage.	Low
Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent
Prepare statement of intent explaining how exotic grasses will be managed in 2007.	Low
Threat abatement strategy: Prioritise control actions
No detailed action specified at this stage.	Medium
Threat abatement strategy: Research
Undertake research on ecology and control of Coolatai grass.	Medium
Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies
List exotic perennial grasses as noxious weeds under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993 and as a key threatening process under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.	High
Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts
Identify biodiversity most at risk from Coolatai grass.	High
Identify biodiversity at risk from exotic grasses.	Medium
Threat abatement strategy: Survey/Mapping and Habitat assessment
Map distribution and abundance of priority exotic perennial grasses.	Low
Threat abatement strategy: Undertake control actions
Continue existing control programs on DEC lands.	High

Invasion of native plant communities by exotic perennial grasses - Priority actions