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     • accepted development vegetation clearing codes;
     • performance outcomes in State Code 16 of the State Development Assessment Provisions (SDAP).


3.3 Watercourses
Vegetation management watercourses and drainage features for this property are shown on the vegetation
management supporting map in section 4.2.

3.4 Wetlands

There are no vegetation management wetlands present on this property.


3.5 Essential habitat
Under the VMA, essential habitat for protected wildlife is native wildlife prescribed under the Nature Conservation Act
1992 (NCA) as critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable or near-threatened wildlife.

Essential habitat for protected wildlife includes suitable habitat on the lot, or where a species has been known to occur
up to 1.1 kilometres from a lot on which there is assessable vegetation. These important habitat areas are protected
under the VMA.

Any essential habitat on this property will be shown as blue hatching on the vegetation supporting map in section 4.2.

If essential habitat is identified on the lot, information about the protected wildlife species is provided in Table 6 below.
The numeric labels on the vegetation management supporting map can be cross referenced with Table 6 to outline the
essential habitat factors for that particular species. There may be essential habitat for more than one species on each
lot, and areas of Category A, Category B and Category C can be mapped as Essential Habitat.

Essential habitat is compiled from a combination of species habitat models and buffered species records. Regional
ecosystem is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated. Essential habitat, for protected wildlife,
means an area of vegetation shown on the Regulated Vegetation Management Map -

1) that has at least 3 essential habitat factors for the protected wildlife that must include any essential habitat factors that
are stated as mandatory for the protected wildlife in the essential habitat database. Essential habitat factors are
comprised of - regional ecosystem (mandatory for most species), vegetation community, altitude, soils, position in
landscape; or
2) in which the protected wildlife, at any stage of its life cycle, is located.

If there is no essential habitat mapping shown on the vegetation management supporting map for this lot, and there is
no table in the sections below, it confirms that there is no essential habitat on the lot.

Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C

Table 6: Essential habitat in Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C




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