Threat abatement plans

The Threatened Species Conservation Act (TSC Act) requires the Director General of DECCW to prepare and adopt 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 the above 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

DECCW may use a variety of strategies outlined in the PAS to tackle a threatening process. One of these strategies is the preparation of a detailed threat abatement plan (TAP) presenting 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.

More information

• See a list of threat abatement plans that have been prepared by DECCW
• Find out how a threat abatement plan is prepared and implemented