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: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| Assist proponents assess the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from project proposals. | Medium |
| Foster relationships with relevant authorities, research institutes and other States to improve understanding of impacts of climate change and potential management. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Monitoring |
| Design and implement indicator programs to detect changes in biodiversity. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Other Action |
| Identify and promote ways to increase landscape permeability for species range shifts. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare Statement of Intent by 2007. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| Evaluate the adequacy of the reserve system to retain biodiversity and to support changing species and ecosystems. | High |
| Strengthen the resilience and connectivity of existing protected areas by identifying strategic future habitats and corridors. | High |
| Support research into the effects of climate change on disturbance regimes (e.g.. invasives, bushfires, pathogens). | High |
| Review the adequacy of environmental water allocations to support inland aquatic ecosystems over the long-term. | Medium |
| Identify the need for ex-situ conservation of species most at risk. | Low |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review and amend or adopt existing legislation and policies |
| Develop conservation planning tools to model scenarios and effects of climate change on biodiversity. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Improve understanding of climate change impacts on biodiversity including identification of species and ecosystem most at risk. | High |
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