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Threatened species survey and assessment guidelines

These guidelines will help ecological consultants conduct field surveys for:

• assessment of significance under s. 5A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
• a species impact statement under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 or the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
• an assessment under the BioBanking Scheme.

Field surveys enable ecological consultants to reliably assess the level and type of impact a proposed development or activity will have on a threatened species, population or ecological community. Threatened species, populations and ecological communities are those listed under Schedules 1, 1A and 2 of the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995.

Field surveys should focus on threatened species and their known or potential habitat on the site.

The following guidelines are currently available:

Field survey methods

• Introduction

Fauna

• Amphibians (09213amphibians.pdf, 177KB)

For information on surveying for all other threatened species, refer to the 2004 draft document.