Description
Use for: Specialist assessment where screening or impact studies indicate potential interaction with high biodiversity-value or critical habitats.
Deliverable purpose: Determine whether critical habitat criteria are met, identify qualifying biodiversity values and define implications for project design and mitigation.
Ordered around habitat evidence and the mitigation hierarchy: assessment area; biodiversity values; criterion-by-criterion analysis; species and habitat evidence; protected and internationally recognized areas; ecological processes; project impacts; mitigation hierarchy; residual risk; management recommendations. Editable Microsoft Word file. Add your own survey effort, species records, significance criteria and offset design.
