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ed and includes:
- changes to legislation to protect dead trees as nesting sites across the range;
- amendments to the West Wimmera Shire Environment Significance Overlay (ESO) to better define and protect both nesting and important buloke and stringybark feeding habitat;
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several landholder surveys across the Red-tail range that have resulted in widespread better practices by both the Team and regional NRM practitioners;
- numerous research publications on the decline and recruitment of buloke woodlands, nest site suitability, the effects of fire on stringybark seed production and so on;
- an extensive habitat modelling project to identify priority areas for revegetation of stringybark and buloke across the range;
- supporting many partner organisations to deliver and achieve success with large scale habitat restoration projects including the Zoos SA, Trees for Life and NRSE 'Cockies helping Cockies' Project; GHCMA 'Red-tails of the Glenelg Plain' Project and WCMA 'Food for the Future' Project with Greening Australia;
- changes to fire management practices in Red-tail habitat on public land;
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working directly with numerous landholders on localised stringybark revegetation projects;
- facilitation and implementation of a successful Nest Incentive Scheme to locate new nest sites of the cockatoo across the range;
- twenty-three annual counts for the cockatoo with around 170 volunteers participating each year;
- a comprehensive review of the existing National Recovery Plan, and development of a new draft five year National Recovery Plan;
- establishment of a SERTBC habitat propagation project with six regional schools in the South East of SA (schools have set up nurseries to grow stringybark for local revegetation projects);
- numerous presentations to community groups, schools, local government and NRM agencies regarding the cockatoo and its habitat; and
- a significant amount of public information including a website, many pamphlets, booklets, posters, education resources and newsletters.
- the installation of new cockatoo nest boxes in priority locations across the range, and the implementation of a large-scale bioacoustic nest monitoring program
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