Monitoring and evaluation
Surveillance is a special type of monitoring and is described in the Biosecurity Plan. Surveillance is the monitoring for the presence of an invasive species. When conducting surveillance you want to know:
- What is the invasive species?
- Is there one, or more than one, species?
- What size is the incursion? (e.g. seeds only, a single plant/animal, small group of plants/animals, large number of plants/animals)
- What is the flowering status of the plant (immature/mature)?
- What is breeding status of the animal? (e.g. lactating female; juvenile, adult)
- How long has the species been on the site? (i.e. recent incursion, or old incursion that has gone undetected).