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.
| Description of priority action | Priority |
|---|
| Threat abatement strategy: Community and land-holder liaison/ awareness and/or education |
| Prepare and implement a communication strategy that effectively delivers key messages regarding the pathogen through a range of media, and encourages the adoption of phytosanitary protocols at vulnerable sites across all tenures. | High |
| Conduct training for land managers and field staff in relation to the identification of disease symptoms and the implementation of phytosanitary protocols. | Medium |
| Establish and/or maintain networks with the Australian Government, other State agencies, Catchment Management Authorities, local government and research organisations in relation to the management of the pathogen. | Medium |
| Establish demonstration sites to promote the adoption and effective implementation of the phytosanitary protocols. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Coordinate the recovery and/or threat abatement program |
| Support the Phytophthora cinnamomi Threat Abatement Working Group in its role in coordinating the threat abatement program for the pathogen, and seeking funding for its implementation. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Develop and implement protocols and guidelines |
| With reference to the National Best Practice Guidelines, prepare phytosanitary protocols which document the practices and strategies that can be applied in NSW to reduce the risk of the pathogen being inadvertently spread. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Monitoring |
| Undertake monitoring of key sites to determine the effectiveness of measures to prevent the spread of the pathogen and to suppress its activity in infested areas, and to determine the long term impact of the pathogen on biodiversity. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare Statement of Intent |
| Prepare a Statement of Intent by 2007. . | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prepare TAP |
| Prepare a NSW TAP by 2009. . | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Prioritise control actions |
| Develop and apply criteria for prioritising sites for active management. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Research |
| Investigate the limitations and optimal methods for the control and eradication of the pathogen (including consideration of off-target impacts). | High |
| Test the susceptibility of species, populations and ecological communities (including key habitat for threatened fauna) that are at risk. | High |
| Develop landscape models that will predict spatial and temporal changes in pathogen distribution and/or disease expression under different development scenarios. | Medium |
| Identify reliable diagnostic species that will assist with the identification of areas where the pathogen is active. | Medium |
| Investigate the potential impact that climate change is likely to have on the distribution and virulence of the pathogen, and incorporate these into the risk assessment model where possible. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Review evidence of impacts |
| Adapt and apply the National Risk Assessment Model to assess the level of risk that the disease poses to species, populations and ecological communities in NSW. | High |
| Threat abatement strategy: Survey/Mapping and Habitat assessment |
| Conduct systematic and targeted surveys and soil sampling to determine which areas containing at risk species, populations and ecological communities are currently infested by the pathogen. | High |
| Maintain a database of sites where the pathogen has been identified, or is suspected of being present. | Medium |
| Threat abatement strategy: Undertake control actions |
| Encourage land managers to undertake on-ground management at priority sites outside the NPWS estate. | High |
| Undertake on-ground management at priority sites on the NPWS estate. | High |
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