This ecological community has been assigned to the Ecological community (widespread) management stream under the Saving our Species (SoS) program.
Justification for allocation to this management stream
This is a threatened ecological community.
Conservation status
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Status in NSW:
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Critically Endangered Ecological Community
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Commonwealth status:
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Not listed
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| NSW Final determination: |
17 July 2020 |
Management objectives
The SoS strategy aims to secure the species in the wild for 100 years and maintain its conservation status under the BC Act.
The SoS strategy aims to secure the species in the wild in NSW for 100 years and maintain its conservation status under the BC Act. The SoS strategy also aims to engage local communities in the species' conservation and to encourage the NSW community to identify with it as a flagship for threatened species conservation.
This SoS strategy aims to secure this population in the long-term and maintain its conservation status under the
BC Act.
This SoS strategy aims to ensure the security of this species in the long-term and maintain its conservation status under the
BC Act.
This SoS strategy aims to ensure that the species is secure in the wild in NSW and that its NSW geographic range is extended or maintained and maintain its conservation status under the
BC Act.
This SoS strategy aims to secure critical populations of this species in NSW in the long-term and maintain its conservation status under the
BC Act.
The SoS strategy aims to secure this population in the long-term.
The SoS strategy aims to maximise the viability of the ecological community and maintain its conservation status under the
BC Act.
The SoS strategy aims to minimise current and future impacts of the key threatening process on priority biodiversity values, including threatened species and ecological integrity. This objective aligns with the
BC Act legislation.
Management areas and sites across NSW
Your search returned one or more sites that are restricted due to the sensitive nature of either the species or the site. Individuals involved in management on these sites can access detailed information via the database.
Critical actions for this ecological community
The key threats to the viability of landscape-managed ecological communities are loss, fragmentation and degradation
of habitat, and widespread pervasive factors such as impacts of climate change. Many of these threats are
addressed by NSW planning, native vegetation, and biodiversity legislation, policy and programs including the
offsets program (BioBanking, NSW Biodiversity Offsets Policy for Major Projects), Biodiversity Certification,
management of environmental water and reservation under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974.
Threats to this ecological community are outlined
here.
The actions listed in the action toolbox are supplementary to NSW legislation, policy and programs and can be used by stakeholders, where applicable to guide management at a site, regional or state scale.
Action toolbox
| Identify and map derived native groundcover remnants to inform future restoration and management. | Site |
| Supplement lost timber with other woody debris, such as debris from approved clearing impacts. | Site |
| Control perennial exotic grasses and forbs. Undertake staged removal of exotic woody weeds and replace with appropriate native species as required. | Site |
| Where appropriate, increase woodland patch sizes and condition, and reconnect fragmented patches using appropriate landscape configurations, plant species and provenances. Enhance structural complexity and remnant size/configuration. Encourage restoration projects to use genetic material of appropriate provenance in plantings. Undertake connectivity and restoration planting to provide functional habitat to ensure predation of leaf eating insects by insectivores is occurring at a functional rate. Buffer prone areas with appropriate shrub/tree plantings of a sufficient density to mitigate the impacts of blown-on nutrients. Undertake fine scale intervention within remnants such as planting specific species to take up nutrients. | Site |
| Assist interested landholders to contribute to the recovery of the TEC.
| Site, Area, State |
| Provide landholders with information on appropriate plantings and direct seeding (spacing, provenance, design etc.). Define locally appropriate groundcover condition indices to inform decisions around appropriate grazing regimes. | Site, State, Area |
| Consult with landholders about long-term protection and/or restoration via mechanisms such as private land conservation agreements and other conservation mechanisms. | Site, State, Area |
| Undertake strategic, coordinated feral predator control of foxes and feral cats, particularly at sites with known key threatened fauna populations that are at risk of predation. Undertake coordinated management of feral pigs, goats, horses, deer and other feral herbivores in line with best management practice. | Site, Area |
| Install fencing and signage as required to reduce impacts and educate the public on damage associated with recreational activities, dumping and other anthropogenic activities such as firewood collection and 'cleaning up'. | Site |
| Manage total grazing pressure to enhance abundance/diversity of relevant indicator species. Where appropriate, exclude grazing stock from box-gum woodland remnants to allow improvement in ground cover diversity and structure. | Site |
| Quantify the prevalence of feral European Honeybee colonies in hollow-bearing trees in priority box-gum woodland remnants to determine if they pose a significant threat to the community and/or specific threatened species. Where European Honeybees are determined to be a critical threat, remove the colonies. | Site |
| Seek involvement with indigenous groups to provide the multiple benefit of cultural and ecological burning where appropriate. | Site, Area |
| Provide landholders with the TEC on their property with information about maintaining fallen timber and dead trees, early weed identification and management, the impacts of pest fauna species, the legal requirements for harvesting firewood and apiary management in areas containing box-gum woodland. | Site, Area, State |
| Provide landholders and community groups (e.g. Landcare) with information relating to avoidance of fertiliser application in certain areas near TEC remnants, avoiding collecting firewood from remnants and issues regarding seed collection and maintaining appropriate provenance records to guide restoration projects. | Site, Area, State |
| Conduct further research into the efficacy of large-scale Noisy Miner ecological culling, particularly at sites which are in close proximity to known populations of threatened woodland birds that will maximise the likelihood of these species returning to treatment sites. | Site |
| Fence off (using wildlife-friendly fencing) around senescent paddock trees, protect regeneration and undertake replacement plantings as required in areas where trees are being lost through attrition. | Site |
| Determine appropriate fire regimes across different examples of the TEC across its distribution. | State, Area |
| Increase protection of old growth living and dead trees from wildfire and management fires, including those in paddock tree situations. | Site |
| Conduct ecological burns in selected areas, in partnership with land managers and NSW Rural Fire Service. | Site, Area, State |
| Protect large trees and manage tree-hollows occupied by competing species such as feral bees, starlings and other exotic hollow users. Identify important hollow-dependant fauna and if or where appropriate, install custom designed nest-boxes and/or augment hollows. | Site |
How will this ecological community be managed?
Key management sites for this ecological community are being identified by the NSW Government
and other program partners, where feasible, cost-effective and beneficial management actions can be undertaken.
Currently, 10 management sites have been identified for this ecological community.
Management sites
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Cowra Maintenance
| Priority management site | Active |
Cowra
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Dananbilla - Illunie area
| Priority management site | Active |
Cowra, Hilltops, Weddin
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South West Slopes
| Priority management site | Active |
Hilltops, Upper Lachlan Shire, Yass Valley
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Southern Reserves
| Priority management site | Active |
Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional, Greater Hume Shire, Hilltops, Junee, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional, Snowy Valleys, Upper Lachlan Shire, Wagga Wagga
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Bungendore Region Travelling Stock Routes
| Priority management site | Active |
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional
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Tarcutta Hills
| Priority management site | Active |
Wagga Wagga
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Googong-Burra Region
| Priority management site | Active |
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional, Snowy Monaro Regional
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Scottsdale Reserve
| Priority management site | Proposed |
Snowy Monaro Regional
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Cowra Enhancement
| Priority management site | Active |
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Cowra Revegetation
| Priority management site | Active |
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