The Vertebrate Fauna of Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve: Final

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Management response Target areas or habitats Species affected Encourage cross-tenure implementation of cat control programs with neighbouring landholders. Human disturbance of roosts and nests (including noise and lighting) Continue to restrict access to identified important bat roost caves. For more detail see the cave-dwelling fauna section 9. Develop a management plan for Mammoth Cave that formalises the strategies that must be taken by cave guides and speleological groups to avoid impacting roosting bats, particularly during the cooler months. Educate the public about not approaching or touching native animals. Ensure noise and artificial lighting does not impact on roosting bats. For more details see cave-dwelling fauna section 9. Ensure noise and artificial lighting does not disturb nesting sooty owls. For more details see cave-dwelling fauna section 9. Avoid activities that might disrupt nesting barking owls, e.g. road maintenance. Road mortality Consider installing awareness road signs where brush-tailed rock-wallabies are regularly sighted. Consider installing speed humps to ensure speeds are kept low to minimise roadkill as well as ensure pedestrian safety. If road is widened, ensure speed limit is kept low. Road widening or increasing speed limits should only be done with a site assessment of potential impacts. Implement a program to record all roadkill reported by staff or visitors. Lodge roadkill records in Atlas of NSW Wildlife and use these to build a picture of problem locations. Consider installing further warning road signs on the basis of lodged records if patterns emerge. Off-target poisoning Promote fox and dog baiting protocols that minimise the take of non-target species. Avoid the use of rodenticides, especially when sooty owls are roosting around the tourist precinct. 100 All. All species predated upon or competing with the cat. Paradox Cave. Eastern bentwing-bat, eastern horseshoe bat Mammoth Cave. Eastern bentwing-bat, eastern horseshoe bat. Show caves. Cave-dwelling bats, brush-tailed rockwallabies. Show caves. Cave-dwelling bats. Devil’s Coach House and connected caves. Sooty owl. Known barking owl nest. Barking owl. Around the Grand Arch. Brush-tailed rockwallaby. Around the Grand Arch. Brush-tailed rockwallaby All roads in JKCR. Most priority species. All roads in JKCR. Most priority species. All roads in JKCR. Most priority species. All roads in JKCR. Most priority species. All roads in JKCR. Potentially spottedtailed quoll, swamp wallabies, echidnas. All. Spotted-tailed quoll, brush-tailed phascogale. Tourist precinct. Sooty owl, barking owl, powerful owl, spottedtailed quoll, brush-tailed phascogale, little eagle, water rat. Environmental degradation and competition by the goat Continue reactive control of goats in JKCR. Any karst areas. Cave-dwelling bats. The Vertebrate Fauna of Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve
Management response Target areas or habitats Species affected Environmental degradation by the deer Maintain current deer management strategies. Known or potential brush-tailed rock-wallaby sites. Around waterways upstream of the caves. Known or potential brush-tailed rock-wallaby sites. Environmental degradation and competition by the rabbit Maintain current rabbit management strategies. Areas with open grass cover around waterways upstream of the caves. Weed invasion Continue weed removal program of sycamore maple and consider expanding the program to other weeds, particularly those that may block cave entrances, such as ivy and periwinkle. Continue to ensure that weed removal is done with adequate erosion control and replacement with native plants. Consider targeted removal of periwinkle which may be limiting the expansion of the brush-tailed rock-wallaby population. Environmental degradation by the pig Maintain current pig management strategies. Sealing up or inappropriate gating of cave entrances Follow policy directives outlined in the OEH cave gating guidelines (DECCW 2010b) Brush-tailed rock-wallaby population. All karst areas, particularly upstream of the caves, including the Surveyors Creek catchment. Brush-tailed rockwallaby Cave-dwelling bats. Brush-tailed rockwallaby Cave-dwelling bats. Brush-tailed rockwallaby. All cave-dwelling species, flame robin, scarlet robin. Areas upstream of the caves. Cave-dwelling bats. Jenolan River downstream of the Grand Arch. Around waterways upstream of the caves. Brush-tailed rock-wallaby population. Brush-tailed rockwallaby. Cave-dwelling bats Brush-tailed rockwallaby. Streams and gullies. Spotted-tailed quoll, frogs. All caves where bats are known to occur. Avoid gating where bats are present All caves where bats are known to occur. Use copola or cage gates where possible to allow for bats that will not fly though vertical exits Position gates where they will not interfere with air flow or water regimes. Ensure new or upgraded gates are designed to minimise impacts on bats. Site assessment and consultation with a bat ecologist and monitoring is advised. Gate installation should not occur at critical points in the lifecycle of cave-dwelling fauna. Consider upgrading older gates that do not conform to known best-practice guidelines for minimising impacts on bats i.e. horizontal bars with width greater than 125 mm. All caves where bats are known to occur. All caves where vertebrate fauna occur. Any gated cave where bats are known to roost or have roosted in the past. All caves where vertebrate fauna occur. Potentially any gate with a gap width less than 125 mm (as per Slade and Law 2008). All cave-dwelling bats. All cave-dwelling bats. All cave-dwelling bats. All cave-dwelling fauna. All cave-dwelling bats. All cave-dwelling fauna All cave-dwelling bats. The Vertebrate Fauna of Jenolan Karst Conservation Reserve 101
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The Vertebrate Fauna of the Jenolan
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Published by: Office of Environment
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CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION............
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6.4.12 Inbreeding..................
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1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 PROJECT RATIONAL
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Map 1: Location and features of Jen
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Hydrology JKCR encompasses the uppe
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1.3.5 Vegetation Much of the vegeta
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wheel-driving and other motor sport
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Multiple banding trips undertaken b
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ground mammal surveys in all vegeta
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Bat Ultrasonic (‘Anabat’) Call
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undisturbed in situ. As agreed with
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Table 4: Statewide vegetation class
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Map 5: Location of OEH standard sys
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3 METHODS USED TO ASSESS AND PRIORI
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Table 5: Factors used to calculate
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Common name Scientific name Reason
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species occur in the southern Blue
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The proximity of the reserve to mor
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extinct. A remnant population there
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Table 8: Comparison of detection ra
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Map 7: Distribution of introduced b
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5.2 NATIVE SPECIES PROFILES This se
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STUTTERING FROG MIXOPHYES BALBUS EP
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FLAME ROBIN MELANODRYAS CUCULLATA C
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GLOSSY BLACK-COCKATOO CALYPTORHYNCH
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LITTLE EAGLE HIERAAETUS MORPHNOIDES
Page 59 and 60: REGENT HONEYEATER ANTHOCHAERA PHRYG
Page 61 and 62: SPECKLED WARBLER CHTHONICOLA SAGITT
Page 63 and 64: VARIED SITTELLA DAPHOENOSITTA CHRYS
Page 65 and 66: POWERFUL OWL NINOX STRENUA EPBC Act
Page 67 and 68: BETTONG SPECIES BETTONGIA SPP. EPBC
Page 69 and 70: BRUSH-TAILED PHASCOGALE PHASCOGALE
Page 71 and 72: Management Considerations Continue
Page 73 and 74: EASTERN QUOLL DASYURUS VIVERRINUS E
Page 75 and 76: KOALA PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS EPBC A
Page 77 and 78: NEW HOLLAND MOUSE PSEUDOMYS NOVAEHO
Page 79 and 80: PLATYPUS ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS E
Page 81 and 82: SMOKY MOUSE PSEUDOMYS FUMEUS EPBC A
Page 83 and 84: SPOTTED-TAILED QUOLL DASYURUS MACUL
Page 85 and 86: WHITE-FOOTED RABBIT-RAT CONILURUS A
Page 87 and 88: EASTERN BENTWING-BAT MINIOPTERUS SC
Page 89 and 90: EASTERN FALSE PIPISTRELLEFALSISTREL
Page 91 and 92: GREATER BROAD-NOSED BAT SCOTEANAX R
Page 93 and 94: LARGE-EARED PIED BAT CHALINOLOBUS D
Page 95 and 96: FERAL CAT FELIS CATUS Feral cat. Ph
Page 97 and 98: FERAL DOG CANIS LUPUS Feral dog. Ph
Page 99 and 100: FERAL PIG SUS SCROFA Occurrence in
Page 101 and 102: RABBIT ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS Occurr
Page 103 and 104: 6.3 RELATIVE PRIORITY OF THREATS In
Page 105 and 106: 6.4.6 Environmental degradation, co
Page 107 and 108: operations (particularly during mop
Page 109: 7 MANAGEMENT OF THREATS 7.1 RECOMME
Page 113 and 114: Management response Target areas or
Page 115 and 116: 8 FURTHER SURVEY AND MONITORING 8.1
Page 117 and 118: esolved and projects are rarely fun
Page 119 and 120: 8.3.3 Suggested monitoring programs
Page 121 and 122: OVERVIEW Limestone karst is a limit
Page 123 and 124: Cook visited after limited installa
Page 125 and 126: adept climbers and may predate on b
Page 127 and 128: Interference by the public Some ver
Page 129 and 130: Predation and competition by the fo
Page 131 and 132: can also alter the temperature and
Page 137 and 138: Much of this data is then available
Page 139 and 140: Spotted-tailed quoll The spotted-ta
Page 141 and 142: Overall, the current study shows th
Page 143 and 144: Common Name Morris et al. (1997) OE
Page 145 and 146: DECC (2007) Terrestrial vertebrate
Page 147 and 148: Keith, D.A. (2004) Ocean shores to
Page 149 and 150: Soderquist, T.R., Traill, B.J., Far
Page 151 and 152: Common name Scientific name NSW leg
Page 159: Cave Date inspected Mattagang Cave
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