Orange-bellied Parrot Data Inventory for Gippsland Offshore Energy Assessment

Fifteen priority species, including the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot, were the focus of a rapid data inventory project. The Australian Ocean Data Network compiled this record to identify and evaluate publicly available occurrence data relevant to the Gippsland offshore renewable energy declaration area. This work was conducted to support environmental assessments and regulatory processes for the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and NOPSEMA.

Use Cases

• Assess potential impacts of offshore renewable energy development based on species occurrence data.
• Identify data gaps for endangered species conservation based on the inventory of accessible information sources.
• Support regulatory decision-making for the Gippsland declaration area based on evaluated dataset utility.
• Plan future data collection activities to improve data accessibility for environmental assessments.

Strengths

• Focuses on 15 priority species identified by Australian government authorities.
• Explicitly evaluates data utility for specific regulatory processes.
• Project output includes a data inventory for the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Rapid exploration involving dataset identification, source tracing, and utility evaluation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-16 23:34:34.063776; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Gippsland offshore renewable energy declaration area and adjacent Bass Strait waters, Australia.