Fauna Sensitive Transport Infrastructure Delivery manual

The Fauna Sensitive Transport Infrastructure Delivery manual provides evidence-based guidance for making roads and railways more wildlife-friendly. It is an easy to read and practical document that is helping the department meet legal requirements and achieve positive ecological outcomes. The manual is not a strict rulebook but offers best-practice and evidence-based guidelines that can be adapted to specific projects. By following its recommendations, the department can improve functional connectivity for native fauna, enhance biodiversity conservation, reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions, and manage fauna impacts cost-effectively. Additionally, this manual aligns with the department's environmental sustainability goals, supporting the use of sustainable practices and minimizing environmental impacts for current and future generations. 

The following is a summary of the of the Fauna Sensitive Transport Infrastructure Delivery manual chapters:

• Chapter 1: Introduction - Description of Fauna Sensitive Transport Infrastructure Delivery (FSTID), integration with project management and environmental process.
• Chapter 2: Ecology concepts - Summary of relevant ecological topics and issues.
• Chapter 3: Ecological monitoring, evaluation, reporting and adaptive management - Detailed advice and guidance to design and implement ecological monitoring and evaluation programs, adaptive management and transport ecology research.
• Chapter 4: Impacts of roads, railways, traffic, and trains on fauna - Description of the potential ecological impacts of roads, railways (electrified and non-electrified), vehicles and trains.
• Chapter 5: Planning and design - Considering the Fauna Sensitive Transport Infrastructure Delivery manual during planning and design including survey methods, habitat connectivity, and offsetting impacts.
• Chapter 6: Mitigation - Description and specific design of different types of mitigation measures, including specifications. This should be used in conjunction with additional details in species profiles.
• Chapter 7: Construction - How to avoid or minimise injury and mortality of wildlife during construction.
• Chapter 8: Maintenance - How to maintain transport networks, including mitigation measures, so they remain ecologically effective. 

Chapters 9 - 21: Species profiles - Summary of the ecology and biology of species and species groups and specific advice on relevant impacts and effective mitigation techniques. Includes information on designs considerations that need to read in conjunction with Chapter 6 Mitigation.

• Chapter 9: Birds
• Chapter 10: Flying-foxes
• Chapter 11: Microbats
• Chapter 12: Macropods
• Chapter 13: Koalas
• Chapter 14: Arboreals
• Chapter 15: Small mammals
• Chapter 16: Semi aquatic mammals
• Chapter 17: Reptiles
• Chapter 18: Amphibians
• Chapter 19: Fish
• Chapter 20: Invertebrates
• Chapter 21: Dingoes

• Appendix - Fauna survey methods

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