Table 12 Planned action for potential impacts during management

6.5 Stop work triggers

The management program will cease and will not recommence or progress to subsequent levels without consulting the DPIE if: • any of the animal welfare triggers occur on more than two days during the program, such as unacceptable levels of stress (see • Table 12) • there is a flying-fox injury or death • new camp/camps appear to be establishing • impacts are created or exacerbated at other locations • there appears to be potential for conservation impacts (e.g. reduction in breeding success identified through independent monitoring) • standard measures to avoid impacts (detailed in Appendix 6) cannot be met. Management may also be terminated at any time if: • unintended impacts are created for the community around the camp • allocated resources are exhausted.

Table 12 Planned action for potential impacts during management

Welfare trigger Signs

Unacceptable levels of stress If any individual is observed: • panting • saliva spreading • located on or within two metres of the ground.

Fatigue

Injury/death In-situ management • more than 30% of the camp takes flight • individuals are in flight for more than five minutes • flying-foxes appear to be leaving the camp. • a flying-fox appears to have been injured/killed on-site (including aborted foetuses) • loss of condition evident.

Action

• Works to cease for the day.

• Works to cease and recommence only when flying-foxes have settled* / move to alternative locations at least 50 m from roosting animals

• Works to cease immediately and DPIE notified • Rescheduled • Adapted sufficiently so that significant impacts (e.g. death/injury) are highly unlikely to occur, as confirmed by an independent expert^ • Stopped indefinitely and alternative management options investigated.