The tools help to reduce the time period between impact and offset. They also provide opportunities for landholders to receive an income in return for voluntarily agreeing to manage their land, or part of their land, as an environmental offset.
Advanced offsets
These pages are for proponents, such as developers, seeking land to deliver an environmental offset obligation. Landholders interested in establishing offsets on their property should visit Information and opportunities for landholders.
Listed sites include verified ecological information showing the presence and condition of matters of State environmental significance to help proponents identify and assess site suitability.
Some sites may have improved in habitat quality since registration, which can provide greater certainty and reduce the time needed to acquit an offset obligation.
Using an advanced offset
Advanced offset sites are not automatically approved for use. Before a site can be used, it must meet all relevant policy and offset condition requirements.
verified information on Prescribed Environmental Matters, including area, condition and individual counts, where relevant.
The list does not include personal contact details of landholders.
Contact
For help enquiring about a listed site, email offsets@detsi.qld.gov.au and include the project name or site details.
Your privacy
We collect your personal information to register on a database of Advanced Offset holders as legislated under Section 90 of the Environmental Offsets Act 2014, and Section 14 of the Environmental Offsets Regulation 2014. We will also use your information to contact you:
about delivering environmental offsets, including advanced offsets registration for priority environmental values (which change over time depending on what environmental values are being impacted)
to provide you with information about interested parties or local governments who have contacted the department with enquiries about your listed Advanced Offset site
to ask for feedback on the effectiveness of this Advanced Offset process and other elements of Queensland's environmental offset framework.
name of the advanced offset and the lot and plan numbers
the size of the advanced offset site
the associated environmental values identified on site.
In the event that interested parties contact the department with an enquiry about your listed site, we will only provide information that you have consented to share via the Environmental Offset Delivery forms submitted with your application.
Your advanced offset site registration information may be shared with the relevant local government to the extent necessary to ensure correct property information and to facilitate contacts from interested parties.
All local governments in Queensland are bound to comply with the Information Privacy Act 2009. We will not otherwise disclose your personal information without your consent unless authorised or required by law. You will be able to opt-out from receiving information, or be removed from our contact register, at any time by emailing the Offsets Policy team at offsets@detsi.qld.gov.au. For more privacy information see the department’s privacy page.
Landholder expression of interest sites
Use the Expression of Interest list to find potential sites where landholders have expressed interest in establishing future offsets. The list provides basic site details only.
the environmental values present, or potentially present, at the site.
The list does not include personal contact details of landholders.
Contact
For help enquiring about a listed site, email offsets@detsi.qld.gov.au and include the relevant submission number.
Direct benefit management plans
What is a Direct Benefit Management Plan (DBMP)?
A DBMP is a pre-approved plan that outlines activities to be undertaken as part of an environmental offset to improve or maintain the viability of one or more matters of State environmental significance (MSES).
Proponent-driven offsets may be delivered through undertaking all or some actions identified in a DBMP.
Summary of key aspects of a DBMP
Can include research or education activities.
Adaptable to meet offset requirements for multiple projects.
Extend existing conservation programs.
Costs related to development of plan.
Information for proponents
Proponents are encouraged to utilise DBMPs as they provide a way to manage the risks associated with the time delay in finding a suitable offset site and contain pre-approved management strategies to achieve a conservation outcome for the relevant impacted prescribed environmental matter.
Using a DBMP to deliver an environmental offset obligation
Before a DBMP can be used as part of a proponent-driven offset it must first be approved by the relevant administering agency for that MSES and the Department of Environment and Science, or if the matter is regulated by a local government, by that local government.
In assessing the suitability of using a DBMP as part of an offset delivery approach, the administering agency will consider the ability of the proposed management actions within the DBMP to achieve a conservation outcome for the relevant prescribed environmental matters conditioned to be offset as part of the authority.
The DBMP must be nominated in the application and include the completed form:
DBMPs can extend or operationalise existing or planned conservation programs. For example, a DBMP could be developed for a MSES to assist in delivering currently unfunded actions or extend the life or area covered by existing programs.
DBMPs could assist in forging commercial arrangements between a DBMP author and an offset provider. Approved DBMPs are listed on the publicly available Offsets register which advertises government endorsed DBMPs to interested parties.
The author may choose to combine listing the DBMP with an advanced offset over lands covered by the DBMP.
Registering a DBMP does not guarantee that it will be selected as part of an offset delivery approach.
Once you have determined what MSES your DBMP will address, check the offsets register to see if there have been any conditioned impacts for those MSES. If there are conditioned impacts for those MSES, then it is possible that a plan such as yours will be in demand.
We are collecting your personal information to register you on a database of registered Direct Benefit Management Plan (DBMP) developers as legislated under Section 90 of the Environmental Offsets Act 2014, and Section 14 of the Environmental Offsets Regulation 2014. We will also use your information to contact you:
about delivering environmental offsets, including DBMP registration for priority environmental values (which change over time depending on what environmental values are being impacted)
to provide you with information about interested parties or local governments who have contacted the department with enquiries about your listed potential environmental offset site
to ask for feedback on the effectiveness of this DBMP process and other elements of Queensland's environmental offset framework.
In the event that interested parties contact the department with an enquiry about your listed site, we will only provide information that you have consented to share via the Environmental Offset Delivery forms submitted with your application.
Your DBMP site registration information may be shared with the relevant local government to the extent necessary to ensure correct property information and to facilitate contacts from interested parties.
All local governments in Queensland are bound to comply with the Information Privacy Act 2009. We will not otherwise disclose your personal information without your consent unless authorised or required by law. You will be able to opt-out from receiving information, or be removed from our contact register, at any time by emailing the Offsets Policy team at offsets@detsi.qld.gov.au. For more privacy information see the department’s privacy page.
Strategic offset investment corridors
Strategic Offset Investment Corridors (SOICs) identify some of the best places in the landscape for environmental offsets. They mainly consist of core areas of largely intact remnant vegetation, generally associated with protected areas such as national parks, or areas that provide important links between those core areas.
SOICs make offsets easier and cheaper to find. They provide income opportunities for landholders willing to provide offsets on their land. They also provide strategic conservation benefits for important environmental values, such as threatened regional ecosystems and species that have been significantly impacted by development elsewhere.
The Queensland Government is identifying SOICs in each bioregion of Queensland with local input from regional Natural Resource Management groups, ecology experts, landholders and local government.
Currently, there have been three SOICs identified in Queensland: Galilee Basin, Southern Brigalow Belt and New England Tableland and the Western Queensland - Gulf Plains, Northwest Highlands, Mitchell Grass Downs and Channel Country Bioregions.
The following maps and information on these SOICs is available:
Detailed spatial mapping of the Galilee Basin SOIC, Southern Brigalow Belt and New England Tableland SOIC and Western Queensland – Gulf Plains, Northwest Highlands, Mitchell Grass Downs and Channel Country Bioregions SOIC are available for download from the Queensland Spatial Catalogue – QSpatial website (search “offset”). These spatial mapping datasets identify State environmental values included in each of the SOICs.
Please note that the spatial mapping datasets for each of the SOIC areas have been created for computers with GIS capabilities.
For further information in relation to SOICs, including information for landholders seeking to register their interest in providing environmental offsets, and proponents or offset brokers seeking offset sites for the potential provision of offset services, please email Offsets@detsi.qld.gov.au.
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