Threatened Tasmanian Orchids Flora Recovery Plan.

The Threatened Tasmanian Orchids Flora Recovery Plan (2017) is a revision of the Flora Recovery Plan: Threatened Tasmanian Orchids 2006–2010 (TTOFRP; TSS 2006) and provides a framework for the continued recovery of threatened orchid species, and for orchid conservation more generally in Tasmania. This revised Plan covers 77 species listed on the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995, and 40 that are also listed on the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. This Plan will be adopted for 36 of the 40 EPBC listed species.
The long-term objectives of recovery are to minimise the risk of extinction in the wild to threatened orchids in Tasmania and to increase the likelihood of each species becoming self-maintaining through the staged implementation of recovery actions. Specific recovery objectives for the threatened orchids enlisted in this Plan are: 1) to maintain and/or increase the number of known subpopulations of each species; 2) to maintain and/or increase the number of individuals within subpopulations of each species; 3) to maintain and/or increase the extent, condition and security of habitat critical to survival of each species; 4) improve the management and prioritisation of recovery actions through a better understanding and resolution of Tasmanian orchid taxonomy; 5) conduct research into the life history, and biological and ecological requirements of threatened orchids in Tasmania to improve habitat management and mitigate intrinsic threats to orchid subpopulations; 6) better understand the impacts of disturbance on threatened orchids to improve habitat management and mitigate extrinsic threats to orchid subpopulations; 7) to establish and maintain a genetically representative ex situ collection of seed and mycorrhizal fungi of all species; 8) to successfully trial orchid translocation projects; and 9) to raise public awareness of orchid conservation issues, and develop mechanisms to encourage and coordinate community participation in orchid recovery programs. The level and type of threat faced by individual species and subpopulations varies widely, as does the quality of distributional and site specific information. Consequently not all actions are necessary or possible for each species or subpopulation, and the significance of required actions will differ between subpopulations.
To achieve each recovery objective, recovery strategies have been developed for the species in this Recovery Plan. Each strategy contains a description and justification of recovery actions necessary to meet the objective. Each recovery action may contribute to achieving more than one recovery objective.