Download Help save the Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)

Help save the Brush-tailed Phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa)
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
Commonwealth status: N/A
Saving our Species management stream: Landscape species
Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10613
Saving our Species aims to conserve as many threatened species as possible. Experts have identified the
distribution of the Brush-tailed Phascogale and the critical management actions required to conserve the species
in the long-term.
All conservation work being undertaken to conserve the Brush-tailed Phascogale around the state is vital to its
recovery. If you are carrying out critical management actions within the species’ habitat, please contact us at
www.environment.nsw.gov.au/savingourspecies/contactus.htm
Map of Brush-tailed Phascogale distribution
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Species distribution
Threats to this species are outlined at http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10613#threats .
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.
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Action toolbox
Action description
Scale
Conduct population monitoring at key locations subject to environmental disturbance (e.g. fire, habitat
degradation) to improve understanding of the species' response to different disturbances and inform
management.
Site
Design and implement ecological burns with the objective of maintaining suitable vegetation structure (open
forest with sparse groundcover) within habitat known to be used by the species (e.g. Dinner Creek, Demon
Nature Reserve).
Site
Negotiate agreements with relevant landholders, particularly in-perpetuity covenants or stewardship
agreements, that promote the retention and connectivity of suitable native vegetation, including forested areas
with stags, tree hollows and recruiting hollow-bearing trees.
Site
Encourage landholders to retain and protect hollow-bearing trees in suitable habitat. Ensure long-term hollow
availability by protecting recruit trees, that is, trees that will be able to provide hollows when current
hollow-bearing trees have died and fallen.
Area
Undertake a targeted community education program that raisies awareness about critical threats to the
species, particularly predation from domestic cats, including what individuals can do to reduce threats to
nearby populations (i.e. keeping cats indoors).
Area
Monitoring actions
Regular monitoring of the effectiveness of management and the trajectory of local populations is an important component of
landscape-managed species. The toolbox and any site-based management plans for landscape-managed species will be adapted,
added or removed over time in response to monitoring results.
Are you helping to save threatened species?
Tell us about the work you’re doing, and find out more about our program - visit
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/savingourspecies.
Published on 03-Dec-2015
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