2022-05-10 P&E Committee Agenda - Item 5 - Attachment 1 - DRAFT - Noosa Threatened Fauna species Recovery Road Map

    o   Species with very few, or no recent verified recordings with the region
        Species which have limited, or no recent recordings within the Noosa LGA (such as the Spotted-tail quoll)
        are not suitable indicator species. This is due to the inability to develop useful baseline population data
        monitoring data and indicative longitudinal studies as a measure of species and habitat recovery.


3.2.4    Regional threating processes

From the desktop review of supporting information, the following threats to biodiversity values (and fauna)
within the Noosa Shire Region were identified;

    •   Climate change impacts (temperature, sea level, fire and weather events)
    •   Planning and development (vegetation clearing and fragmentation)
    •   Inappropriate fire regimes (prescribed burning)
    •   Unsustainable and use practices and water management
    •   Invasive species (predation, competition, habitat degradation)
    •   Disease (species specific)
    •   Human / wildlife interactions and conflicts (vehicle strike, domestic animal predation, human conflict)
    •   Marine impacts (water quality, debris, boat strike, by-catch)
    •   Recreational impacts (increasing use of natural areas, four-wheel driving, boating and fishing etc.)


3.3      Summary of findings
The desktop review of supporting information (Section 3) identified the below findings relevant to the planning,
development and implementation of threatened fauna conservation within the Noosa Region;

    ➢   Seven (7) key regional habitat types were identified
    ➢   Four (4) regional threatened ecological communities were identified
    ➢   Thirty-four (34) fauna species of either state or Commonwealth conservation significance were shortlisted
    ➢   Nine (9) regional threating processes were nominated as key criteria to determine species success.