Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016

A recovery plan is a document that provides for the conservation, protection and management of —

one or more threatened species; or

one or more threatened ecological communities; or

a combination of such species and communities.

A recovery plan must provide for research and management actions to stop the decline of, and support the recovery of, each threatened species or threatened ecological community to which the plan relates so that its chances of long‑term survival in the wild are maximised.

In particular, a recovery plan must —

state the objectives to be achieved; and

state criteria against which achievement of those objectives is to be measured; and

specify actions to achieve those objectives; and

identify any habitat that is critical habitat, or that may be eligible for listing as critical habitat, for a threatened species or threatened ecological community to which the plan relates and actions to protect that habitat; and

identify any population of a threatened species to which the plan relates that is critical to the survival of that species and actions to protect that population; and

identify any occurrence of a threatened ecological community to which the plan relates that is critical to the survival of that community and actions to protect that occurrence; and

identify any key threatening process that is affecting or is likely to affect a threatened species or threatened ecological community to which the plan relates and specify the proposed means for preventing, eradicating, reducing or containing that process; and

state the estimated duration of the plan; and

identify —

land that will be materially affected by the plan’s implementation; and

persons or bodies who or which appear to the CEO to be likely to be involved in implementing the plan or evaluating its effectiveness.