32Assessment of the project context

32 Assessment of the project context

As part of the SSA, the project proponent must also do the following for each activity area: (a) identify and describe any potential threats to the project outcome being achieved, in accordance with section 34; (b) identify and describe those parts of the project area (if any) that, based on one or more projections, may be vulnerable to the reasonably expected effects of climate change in a way that could affect the likelihood of the project outcome being achieved; (c) identify and describe any significant hydrological features within the activity area, and in the surrounding landscape, that may affect, or be affected by, the project activities; Examples: flood prone areas; features that materially affect plant water availability. (d) identify and describe any threatened species or ecological communities that occur, or are likely to occur, within the activity area and in the surrounding landscape; (e) identify and describe any areas within the activity area that contain native trees and shrubs that: (i) have regenerated from natural sources (soil seed stock, root stock or lignotubers); and (ii) have stems with a diameter at breast height of less than 5 centimetres; recording appropriate age and approximate number of such plants of each species or genus.