Biodiversity Conservation Regulation 2017

The impacts on biodiversity values of the following actions are prescribed (subject to subclause (2)) as biodiversity impacts to be assessed under the biodiversity offsets scheme—

the impacts of development on the following habitat of threatened species or ecological communities—

karst, caves, crevices, cliffs and other geological features of significance,

rocks,

human made structures,

non-native vegetation,

the impacts of development on the connectivity of different areas of habitat of threatened species that facilitates the movement of those species across their range,

the impacts of development on movement of threatened species that maintains their lifecycle,

the impacts of development on water quality, water bodies and hydrological processes that sustain threatened species and threatened ecological communities (including from subsidence or upsidence resulting from underground mining or other development),

the impacts of wind turbine strikes on protected animals,

the impacts of vehicle strikes on threatened species of animals or on animals that are part of a threatened ecological community.

The additional biodiversity impacts prescribed by this clause—

are prescribed for the purposes of assessment and biodiversity assessment reports under the Act, but are not additional biodiversity impacts for the purposes of calculating the number and class of biodiversity credits that are required under a biodiversity assessment report to be retired to offset the residual impact on biodiversity values of proposed development, proposed clearing of native vegetation or proposed biodiversity certification of land, and

may be taken into account in the determination of the biodiversity credits required to be retired (or other conservation measures required to be taken) under a planning approval or vegetation clearing approval or under a biodiversity certification of land.