Environment

Downer’s project/contract National Significance Biodiversity Register

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Country
Project/contract
Approval
Approval holder
Species of national significance
Potential or actual impact
New Zealand
Milford Road Alliance (NZ)

Customer: Waka Kotahi

Liaison with Department of Conservation and Wildlife Permit
Downer
Southern (or South Island) lesser short-tailed bat (Mystacina tuberculata tuberculata)
Removal of habitat due to required tree felling.
New Zealand
Marshland Bridge and Roading

Customer: Christchurch City Council

Liaison with Department of Conservation NIWA, Fish and Game and Wildlife Permit (for lizards)
Downer
Swamp Nettle (Urtica perconfusa)

Common Grass Skink (Oligosoma polychroma)

McCann's Skink (Oligosoma maccanni)

Lamprey (Geotria australis)

Longfin Eel (Anguilla dieffenbachia) & Short fin Eels (Anguilla australis)

Removal of habitat due to vegetation removal and bank realignment, as well as culvert extension in drain.
New Zealand
Christchurch Southern Motorway (CSM2)

Customer: Waka Kotahi

Liaison with Department of Conservation and Wildlife Permit
Downer
Common Grass Skink (Oligosoma polychroma)
Removal of habitat during vegetation/ shelterbelt removal.
New Zealand
Turitea Wind Farm

Customer: Mercury

Resource consent conditions
Downer
Powelliphanta snails
Construction phase impacts managed by pre-construction surveys and relocation as required.
New Zealand
America’s Cup AC36

Customer: Auckland Council

Resource consent conditions
Downer
Red Billed Gull (Larus novaehollandiae scopulinus)
Relocation of colony of 400.
Australia
HCMT Depot

Customer: Public Transport Victoria

EPBC approval
Customer
Southern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus)

Growling Grass Frog (Litoria raniformis)

Matted flax-lily (Dianella amoena)

Maroon leek-orchid (Prasophyllum frenchii)

Dwarf galaxias (Galaxiella pusilla)

Removal of habitat reduced as far as possible through design.

Offsets purchased.

Potential construction impacts managed through an approved Threatened Species Management Plan

Australia
O’Herns Road

Customer: Main Roads Project Victoria

EPBC approval
Customer
Growling Grass Frog (Litoria raniformis)

Golden Sun Moth(Synemon Plana)

Removal of habitat reduced as far as possible through design, including installation of a Growling Grass Frog culvert.

Offsets purchased.

Construction impacts through species-specific management plans.

Australia
Bango Wind Farm
EPBC approval
Customer
Golden Sun Moth (Synemon Plana)

Supurb Parrot (Polytelis swainsonii)

Box Gum Woodland (referring to White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely’s Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland ecological community)

Hollow Bearing Trees

Destruction of habitat during construction phase clearing works.

Clearing potential habitats or generating excessive noise in close proximity to potential habitats during breeding seasons.

Australia
Thornlie Cockburn Link

Customer: Public Transport Authority of Western Australia and Office of Major Transport Infrastructure Delivery

EPBC approval (EPBC 2018/8188)
Customer
Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris)

Baudin’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii)

Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksia)

Banksia Woodlands threatened ecological community

King Spider-orchid (Caladenia procera)

Removal of habitat and breeding trees.

Australia
Yanchep Rail Extension Parts 1 and 2 Customer: Public Transport Authority of Western Australia and Office of Major Transport Infrastructure Delivery

EPBC approvals

(EPBC 2018/8262)

(EPBC 2010/5777)

(EPBC 2017/7872)

(EPBC 2011/6021)

(EPBC 2008/4638)

(EPBC 2015/7561)

Customer

Eglington Estate

Prime Eglington

Western Australian Land Authority (Development WA)

Peet Limited

Lendlease Communities (Australia) Ltd

Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris)

Chuditch – Western Quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii)

Banksia Woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain Threatened Ecological Community

Removal of habitat and breeding trees.