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 |
| Prepare and implement an education and community awareness publicity campaign to increase knowledge on the impacts of clearing of native vegetation on biodiversity. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| Develop a Biodiversity Offsets and Banking Scheme (BioBanking), a market based instrument designed to ensure that where biodiversity offsets are used they are implemented consistently and strategically. | Medium |
| Develop a Private Native Forestry Code of Practice for industry as a regulation under the Native Vegetation Act 2003. | Medium |
| Prepare guidelines to address various environmental planning initiatives, including EPI preparation for biodiversity certification. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Establish management agreements with public authorities CMAs and land managers/owners |
| Work with CMAs to achieve objectives of the Native Vegetation Act 2003 and demonstrate contribution of CMA decisions to achieving the State and Catchment vegetation and biodiviersity related targets. | High |
| Investigate opportunities for management agreements (JMA/MOUs) with Public Authorities (e.g.. Utility providers). | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Measure response to control |
| Review and update PVP biodiversity tools to improve the protection of native vegetation. | High |
| Review progress of biodiversity tools which improve the protection of native vegetation. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare a statement of intent by 2009 to establish links between existing regulation of clearing of native vegetation and identifying strategies for the protection of biodiversity. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| Continue existing and facilitate new research in mapping, analysis and impacts of clearing of native vegetation in NSW, including population analysis and modelling, vegetation dynamics, vertebrate and woodland ecology. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies |
| Provide input to interagency and stakeholder discussion and review of policy settings to support the implementation Native Vegetation Act 2003. | High |
| Establish and maintain links between the techniques and policies implemented in vegetation management and those in NRM and strategic conservation planning. | Medium |
| Oversee interactions between TSC Act reforms and Native Vegetation and NRM reforms through biodiversity certification. | Medium |
| Provide custodianship and maintenance of databases which support the biodiversity tools in PVP developer (including undertaking periodic review of the data and databases). | Medium |
| Review NSW planning initiatives to encourage the protection of native vegetation in EPIs and planning documents. | Medium |
| Review the code and regulation of the Plantation and Reaforestation legislation in regards to biodiversity issues. | Medium |
| Review the Environmental Outcomes Assessment methodology for the biodiversity component. | Medium |
| Work with the Natural Resources Council and support CMAs to monitor implementation and effectiveness of the Minister for Environment biocertification requirements. are met. | Medium |
| Review, assess and implement Commonwealth and NSW threat abatement strategies identified in recovery plans, where practical. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Design and seek funding for research to improve understanding of the role of "invasive native scrub" in species persistence in landscapes with different levels of past clearing and habitat fragmentation. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Survey/Mapping and Habitat assessment |
| Identify gaps in vegetation mapping/classification and develop priorities for future survey, assessment and mapping in these areas. | High |
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