Landscape Fragmentation Connectivity tool
The Landscape Fragmentation Connectivity tool performs a desktop assessment of development impacts on connectivity areas containing remnant vegetation. Connectivity areas are defined in Schedule 2 of the Environmental Offsets Regulation 2014.
The tool is a test for significant residual impacts on connectivity, a prescribed environmental matter under the Environmental Offsets Framework. It is also effective as a mechanism for quantifying the fragmentation of remnant regional ecosystems at the bioregion scale and has been adapted to map fragmentation for the State of the Environment Report.
A significant residual impact on connectivity by a prescribed activity is counterbalanced through the delivery of an offset in a non-remnant ecosystem. The outcome maintains overall ecosystem connectivity within the affected bioregion.
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