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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Endangered Ecological Community
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Commonwealth status:
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Not listed
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| NSW Final determination: |
27 April 2007 |
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
| Provide residents with the TEC on their property with information about how to identify TEC plant species as well as threats to the community such as clearing, grazing, firewood collection and weeds. This may be done through stakeholder engagement forums, information packages and other community engagement activities. | Area |
| Consult with landholders to protect areas of TEC on their property through a management agreement or in perpetuity covenants such as Conservation Agreement. Where landholders want to protect large areas of good condition TECs encourage participation through involvement in the BCT offset scheme. | Site |
| Encourage nurseries to collect seeds and grow seedlings from different locations and sources within the TECs distribution for one project and to keep records by providing a list of provenances to landholders buying seeds or seedlings for revegetation projects. | State |
| Promote revegetation by landholders to reconnect areas of TEC with surrounding vegetation using buffering, corridors or stepping stones. | Site, Area |
| Revegetate areas of the TEC with advice from Local Land Services/Landcare and use local revegetation guidelines where they are available.
| Area |
| Encourage land managers to regenerate and/or revegetate cleared areas of the TEC to improve connectivity and condition. Natural revegetation should be attempted where possible if native groundcover and some overstorey is still present. However, if replanting or direct seeding is required it should include not just canopy species but shrubs and forbs (where seed or seedlings are available). Plantings could be continuous, stepping-stone or buffering approach. | Site |
| Provide training to landholders on how to identify weed species, what to do about them and how to implement current best management practices. Weed species include invasive grasses such as Coolatai Grass, Green Panic, Tall Rhodes Grass and African Love grass; annual grasses such as Ryegrass; woody weeds such as African Box Thorn and herbaceous weeds such as Blue Heliotrope, Verbena spp, St John's Wort, Gazania and Paddy's Lucerne. Other problematic weeds include Tiger Pear. | Area |
| Stage removal of woody weeds as they often provide habitat for native fauna. Replace removed weeds with quick growing species such as Acacias that can provide suitable habitat. | Site |
| Develop hygiene protocols for use at all sites regarding pathogen control. | State |
| Develop protocols for vehicles (e.g. during roadside management) to avoid the spread of weeds.
| Area, Site |
| Allow grazing at strategic times to control annual grasses. | Site |
| Manage grazing pressure to facilitate natural regeneration, structural diversity and manage biomass to meet conservation management objectives. This may include grazing only at certain times of the year and/or keeping areas free from grazing for periods during the year. | Site |
| Protect areas to foster natural regeneration by excluding grazing at certain sites via exclosures. Exclosure fencing (wildlife friendly) should be done at an effective scale to include the majority of the extent of existing standing trees and to enclose the main area of soil type adequate to allow for effective regeneration & ultimately grazing management (i.e. this may require paddock or Travelling Stock Reserve subdivisions etc.). | Site |
| Place artificial watering holes for stock outside of the TEC. | Site |
| Protect hollow-bearing trees - dead and alive. In areas of new regeneration, consider the installation of nest boxes for fauna species to improve the ecological function. | Site |
| Encourage landholders to retain standing dead trees, fallen trees, coarse woody debris and logs in remnants. | Area |
| Assess the impact and density of herbivores. Control when and where necessary using a regional integrated pest management approach. | Site |
| Undertake planting of other species as spray drift barriers around the potentially affected TEC areas e.g. Belah, Myall.
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| Restore vegetation to provide adequate structural complexity to dissuade noisy miners from becoming overabundant. Consider ecological culling where habitat augmentation has already occurred and Noisy Miners are still having a measurable impact on small woodland birds and/or tree canopy health. | Site, Area |
| Ascertain an appropriate fire regime then review the regime used by the Rural Fire Service and work with the Rural Fire Service to align.
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| Conduct targeted surveys to determine true extent of Eucalyptus microcarpa in the northern part of the TECs range.
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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, no management sites have been identified for this ecological community.