Field surveys provide information for:
- an assessment of significance when a proposed development is likely to impact threatened species
- a species impact statement, which is needed for a development on land containing critical habitat or that will impact threatened species, under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 or the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979
- assessments under the BioBanking Scheme to calculate biodiversity impacts and gains.
Definitions
Definitions for threatened species, populations of a species and ecological communities are listed under the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.
Field survey methods
The publications below set out best practice field survey methods for threatened species, populations of a species, or ecological communities on sites proposed for development or other activities.
Marking a captured brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii) in field studies of local wildlife 
Scientist testing, analysing and recording soil and vegetation profiles, Wilbertroy Flora Reserve