Threat Abatement Plan for Infection of amphibians with chytrid fungus resulting in chytridiomycosis
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Action group 2.1 - Manage threatened amphibians to minimise the threat from chytridiomycosis
Action 2.1.1: Coordinate captive breeding, captive husbandry and restocking programs across states and territories to maximise effectiveness of activities and knowledge in producing high quality outcomes (Category 1).
Action 2.1.2: Establish national guidelines to standardise techniques for, and approaches to, captive breeding, raising and restocking programs (Category 2).
Action 2.1.3: Expand knowledge of, and infrastructure for, captive breeding of amphibians, particularly with respect to species that are threatened or particularly vulnerable to chytridiomycosis (Category 2).
Action 2.1.4: Monitor threatened species of amphibians to determine changes in distribution and abundance, prevalence and deaths due to chytridiomycosis (Category 2).
Action 2.1.5: Use cryopreservation for Australian amphibian species, with priority on threatened species, in such a manner as to allow cloning in the future or have gametes preserved to allow artificial breeding (Category 2).
Action 2.1.6: Restock species that are under severe threat from infection with chytridiomycosis using captive-raised and captive-bred stock. Implement this under an adaptive management framework that heeds relevant state, national and international (IUCN) standards on translocations and monitor the outcome (Category 3).
Action 2.1.7: Include strategies to limit the impact of infection with the amphibian chytrid in infected species as a component of threatened species recovery plans and relevant regional and local management plans (Category 4).
Action 2.1.8: Monitor species that are currently chytridiomycosis-free (and are shown to be resistant to chytridiomycosis by the standard laboratory experimental model in Action 3.3.1) at a lower level than species that are susceptible (Category 4).
Action 2.1.9: Apply more stringent quarantine and hygiene protocols, than those specified in Actions 1.4.2, 1.4.3 and 1.5.1 to populations of amphibians that are identified as being particularly vulnerable to extinction (Category 4).