Eco Logical Australia: Environmental Consultants

DECCW

Trial of DECCW Draft Biodiversity Certification Methodology

ELA completed the following tasks: • Field validation of desktop condition assessment guidelines; • Assessed the impact of changing the definition of low condition within the methodology; • Refined the threatened species database used by the methodology using expert opinion; • Examined the outcomes of broad landscape based assessment techniques required by the methodology.

ELA made several recommendations to DECCW aimed at improving the application of Biodiversity Certification methodology in NSW.