Proposed mitigation (Appendix 8B) includes: (a) scheduling of transmission line clearing and installation outside of the bird breeding season, (b) avoidance of travel through sections 1 and 2 of the corridor supporting chat habitat, (c) retention of all low-growing vegetation (<3m height ) and trimming of tall-growing vegetation (>3m height) at 1.3m height in the transmission line ECZ, (d) monitoring and mapping active breeding territories and highly suitable habitat in project areas, (e) development of a variance to standard vegetation clearing practice in occupied and highly suitable chat habitat to retain existing shrub density and structure, (e) placement of structure sites to minimize impacts to occupied and highly suitable habitat, and (f) supplemental planting of selected low-growing shrub species of value to chats in degraded areas.
CWS a été consulté sur la protection de cette espèce et de son habitat critique.