Koala habitat assessment software
Koala habitat assessments look for use, not just presence: food trees by species and size, and the scats beneath them. A common approach is the spot assessment technique, searching for scats under a set number of trees at each site. The developer’s report has to translate those counts into a habitat value that stands up in the referral or development application.
Built for developers running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Koala habitat report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Koala habitat report
Table 3 — Scat search results by site
- Site
- Fictional Ridge Subdivision (22 ha)
- Method
- Spot assessment technique, 30 trees per site
- Survey date
- 20 May 2026
| Site | Trees with scats / searched | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| KS1 — creek line, forest red gum | 9 / 30 (30%) | Activity: Active use |
| KS2 — upper slope, spotted gum | 1 / 30 (3%) | Activity: Low |
| KS3 — regrowth | 0 / 30 | Activity: None found |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the koala habitat report where your template puts it.
Per site
- Site ID and map location
- Vegetation type
- Habitat condition notes
- Site photos
Per tree searched
- Tree species
- Diameter
- Scats present (yes / no)
- Scat age estimate
- Scratch marks
Incidental
- Koala sighted
- Dog or road threats observed
- Connectivity to adjoining habitat
Standards the report works to
- EPBC Act 1999Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth)
- The koala is listed under the Act, so impacts on its habitat can trigger a Commonwealth referral.
- SEPP (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021State Environmental Planning Policy (Biodiversity and Conservation) 2021 (NSW)
- Its koala habitat protection provisions govern how development applications in NSW address koala habitat.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the koala habitat report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the koala habitat assessment form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your sites, transects and plots
Enter sites, transects and plots once, as a register. Every one of your species observations and survey events then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The koala habitat report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a koala habitat report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The report concludes no threatened species were recorded; the survey event on Transect 3 carries an observation that says otherwise.
Checks a ecology framework usually carries
- Survey effort described meets the guideline for the species being assessed
- Every species in the results table is carried through to the discussion
- Weather, season and access limitations are recorded, not left implied
- Each approval or offset condition is addressed explicitly
Questions
- Can activity percentages be calculated per site?
- Trees searched are a repeat; calculated fields count trees with scats and divide by trees searched, so each site’s percentage is ready when the search ends.
- Can we use our own search method instead?
- Yes. Your firm builds the form, so the number of trees, the search radius and the evidence categories follow your methodology.
- Can the report state the method we followed in our own words?
- Upload your method statement to the standards library and the drafted method section draws on your wording rather than a generic description.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other ecology work we cover
- Marine mammal observationsMMO shift report
- Nest box monitoringNest box occupancy report
- Pre-clearance ecology surveysClearance survey report
- Revegetation monitoringPlanting survival report
- Seagrass monitoringSeagrass condition report
- Shorebird countsShorebird census report
- Threatened species monitoringSpecies monitoring report
- Turtle nesting patrolsNesting season report
Other disciplines
Rebuild your koala habitat report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.