Implementation of Saving our Species actions for Phyllanthus microcladus (Brush Sauropus) at Shannon Creek and Grafton Research Station 2018-2019

⁠⁠⁠The New South Wales Government is investing $100 million over five years in saving more threatened animals and plants from extinction. The funds are allocated from 2016 to 2021 to Saving Our Species (SOS), NSW’s leading threatened species conservation program. The SOS program consults extensively with experts and applies independent peer reviewed science to species, populations and ecological community’s projects. SOS takes a rigorous and transparent approach to prioritising investment in projects that ensure benefit to the maximum number of species provides targeted conservation projects that set out the actions required to save specific plants and animals on mapped management sites, regularly monitors the effectiveness of projects so they can be improved over time, and encourages community, corporate and government participation in threatened species conservation by providing a website and a database with information on project sites, volunteering and research opportunities. All threatened species are allocated to one of six management streams. Within those streams, information and critical management actions for each species are identified and collated.

OEH are seeking applications for this tender to carry out site-specific actions for Phyllanthus microcladus (Brush Sauropus) prioritised this financial year through the SOS program. This species is allocated to the ‘site-managed species’ stream. Thus, has a discrete, spatially defined site(s) and within each site(s) various actions have been prioritised and budgeted for this financial year. Examples of actions are ‘species monitoring’, ‘threat monitoring’, and ‘management action’.