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biodiversity & land management

flora & fauna monitoring

(Common Brushtail Possum captured in Tomahawk Trap for biodiversity monitoring purposes before being released)
Common Brushtail Possum

UCML undertakes Annual Biodiversity Surveys to monitor the distribution and abundance of native fauna over the life of the coal mine and monitor changes in fauna populations which may result from the operation of the mine.

Extensive flora surveys are conducted over all new proposed development areas in accordance with environmental assessment requirements.

 

Threatened species which are known to exist in the general area surrounding the Ulan Coal Mine (Identified during the EIS in 1998)

Birds

Mammals

Reptiles

Flora

Bush Thick-knee
Malleefowl
Australian Bittern
Grey Falcon
Square-tailed Kite

Shy Hylocola
Glossy Black Cockatoo
Red Tailed Black
Cockatoo
Swift Parrot
Turquoise Parrot
Superb Parrot
Powerful Owl
Masked Owl
Olive Whistler
Regent Honeyeater
Painted Honeyeater
Pied Honeyeater
Yellow-eyed Cuckoo-shrike
Blue-billed Duck

Brush Tailed Rock Wallaby
Squirrel Glider
Koala
Tiger Quoll
Brush Tailed Phascogale

Pilliga Mouse
Large Pied Bat
Little Pied Bat
Greater Long-eared Bat
Common Bent-wing Bat

Pale-headded snake
Western Blue Tongue
Green-Golden Bell Frog

 

Bothriochloa biloba (grass)
Dichanthium setosum (grass)
Swainsona recta (herb)
Eriostemon ericfolius (shrub)
Homoranthus darwinioides (shrub)
E. parramattensis (tree)