Lantana (Lantana camara L.)

3.1 Goal 1: Prevent new infestations from establishing

Desired long-term outcome:

The objectives and strategic actions to achieve this, and the action level and responsible partners for each action, are shown in Table 3.

Objectives	Strategic actions	Action levela	Responsibility
1.1 Enforce relevant national and state legislation	Enforce importation restrictions for all lantana species	1	Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (now Biosecurity Australia)
	Enforce a ban on the sale and distribution of Lantana camara	1	State and territory agencies, local government
	Explore opportunities for legislative and policy support to maintain lantana containment lines and asset protection objectives	1
1.2 Maintain containment lines and zones	Refine or review priority strategic management zones based on region-specific classifications of prevention, eradication, containment and asset protection	2	State and territory agencies, local government, conservation and NRM groups
	Establish and/or maintain cooperative agreements to defend containment lines	2	State and territory agencies, local government, conservation and NRM groups, land managers
	Priority management of new and outlying infestations	1
	Implement consistent weed management and site recovery monitoring protocols to ensure management actions are achieving the desired outcome of long-term asset protection	2	State and territory agencies, local government, conservation and NRM groups
1.3 Maintain knowledge of level and extent of all current infestations	Establish and/or maintain centralised state and national databases for storing weeds mapping information	1	Australian Government, state and territory agencies
1.4 investigate the dynamics of spread	Identify high-risk pathways of spread (specifically west of core infestations)	2	State and territory agencies, research groups

a The Australian Weeds Committee (AWC) applied three action levels that reflect jurisdictional commitment to implementing actions:

Level 1 = Highly beneficial as a national action that is critical to success of the WoNS revised strategic plan and all relevant AWC jurisdictions have committed resources to implementing this action.

OR

Highly beneficial to a particular jurisdiction and the responsible party/ies have committed resources to implement this action.

Level 3 = Desirable and still beneficial to improving uptake and efficiency of on-ground action, but not critical to success.

3.2 Goal 2: Strategically manage existing infestations

Desired long-term outcome:

The strategic actions to achieve this, and the action level and responsible partners for each action, are shown in Table 4

Objectives	Strategic actions	Action levela	Responsibility
2.1 Adopt best-practice management techniques	Facilitate delivery and adoption of best-practice management information	1	State and territory agencies, Industry bodies,local government, conservation and NRM groups, land managers
	Identify and coordinate a response to critical information gaps: specifically address research requirements identified in Section 2.6 of this plan	2	State and territory agencies, Industry bodies
	Promote new lantana control techniques (where efficacy data is documented and comparable)	3	State and territory agencies, industry bodies, local government, conservation and NRM groups
2.2 Implement strategic management to protect priority assets	Identify and manage high priority areas at local, regional and state levels, based on the protection of values and assets (Australian Weed Strategy): Support the implementation of the Plan to Protect Environmental Assets from Lantana (NLMG 2010) (or similar prioritisation processes) Promote the use of strategic management tools at regional levels for the protection of social and economic values and the defence of lantana-free areas within the current distribution	2	State and territory agencies, local government, conservation and NRM groups, land managers
	Implement consistent weed management and site-recovery monitoring protocols to ensure management actions are achieving the desired outcome of long-term asset protection	2	State and territory agencies, local government, conservation and NRM groups, land managers
2.3 Implement best-practice biological control programs	Maintain efforts to research and distribute biological control agents, including possible native agents	2	State and territory agencies, local government, conservation and NRM groups, land managers
	Develop and implement biological control impact monitoring	2	State and territory agencies, research groups
	Investigate biological control agents from genetic centres of origin (based on genetic relatedness of Australian and native-range lantana)	2	State and territory agencies, research groups
2.4 Investigate the ecology of lantana to determine better control options	Develop a better understanding of the ecological and biological parameters that affect management success	3	State and territory agencies, research institutions
2.5 Manage ornamental plantings of lantana	Promote and support the removal of ornamental plantings of lantana from government and commercial properties	3	State and territory agencies, local government, Industry groups
	Increase public awareness of the impacts of ornamental lantana and encourage replacement plantings	3	State and territory agencies, local government, industry groups, media organisations, education institutions, conservation and NRM groups
	Provide alternative plant species lists for both ornamental and native regeneration, and revegetation situations	3	State and territory agencies, local government, Industry groups

a The Australian Weeds Committee (AWC) applied three action levels that reflect jurisdictional commitment to implementing actions:

Level 1 = Highly beneficial as a national action that is critical to success of the WoNS revised strategic plan and all relevant AWC jurisdictions have committed resources to implementing this action.

OR

Highly beneficial to a particular jurisdiction and the responsible party/ies have committed resources to implement this action.

Level 3 = Desirable and still beneficial to improving uptake and efficiency of on-ground action, but not critical to success.