Threat abatement plans
The Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 (TSC Act) requires the preparation and adoption a Priorities Action Statement that:
- sets out the recovery and threat abatement strategies to be adopted for each threatened species and key threatening process
- establishes relative priorities to implement these strategies
- establishes performance indicators to report achievements in implementing recovery and threat abatement strategies and their effectiveness
- contains a status report on each threatened species (where information is available)
- sets out clear timetables for recovery and threat abatement planning and achievement.
Find out more about the Priorities Action Statement (PAS)
Threat abatement plans
A variety of strategies is outlined in the PAS that can be used to manage a threatening process. One of these strategies is the preparation of a detailed threat abatement plan (TAP) which presents a strategic framework for a targeted threat abatement program.
A TAP is a statutory document prepared and approved in accordance with Part 5 of the TSC Act, and Ministers and public authorities are required to take any appropriate action available to them to implement the measures in the plan. A threat abatement plan:
- outlines actions to manage the threatening process
- explains how the success of these actions will be measured
- identifies the authorities that will be responsible for carrying out those actions
- gives a cost estimate and timetable, if possible, for carrying out the plan.
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Page last updated: 05 September 2012
