Yarrabilba Urban Development
Spanning approximately 2,000 hectares, the Yarrabilba Urban Development Area represents a significant State urban planning initiative in South-East Queensland.
Client: Santos
Project: Offset Monitoring Program
Timeline: 2022 – 2024
Austecology was commissioned by a principal consultant to design and implement a series of offset fauna monitoring surveys to fulfil Santos’ obligations under their offset management plan.
With a focus on targeted surveys for threatened species and an overall record of biodiversity, the program was implemented over a period of three years and comprised seven individual survey events.
All seven events were conducted on properties across remote sites within South-west and Southern Queensland. These locations posed a variety of challenges including long duration off-grid operations to facilitate timely outcomes where accommodation was not yet established.
Our team implemented a variety of survey techniques, including:
The survey programs yielded impressive results, highlighting both threatened species detections and overall species diversity. Key results included records of the following:
The survey program also recorded a total of 305 species, comprising 186 birds, 61 reptiles, 40 mammals, and 18 frogs.
These results not only delivered the client the data necessary to comply with the obligations within their offset management plan, but the information gained, specifically with respect to Dunmall’s snake, has contributed to an increase in understanding of its ecology through several novel features of its observation within this survey program.
Learn more about Austecology’s approach to Biodiversity Offset design and monitoring below.
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