Appendix F - Ecological Assessment Report

Ecological Assessment Report v1                                                               NCES REF: J001050
Lot 3 on RP131369 – 96 Black Mountain Range Road, Black Mountain




 Previously Recorded               Preferred Habitat                    Habitat Value within the Site
 Fauna Species
                                   garden ponds in urban and peri-
                                   urban     areas     (Queensland
                                   Government 2019).

 Calyptorhynchus lathami           This species prefers woodland        N/A – No sheoak trees observed
 lathami (glossy black-            areas dominated by Allocasuarina,    within the site.
 cockatoo (eastern)) – listed      or open sclerophyll forests and
 as ‘vulnerable’ under the         woodlands with a stratum of
 NC Act                            Allocasuarina beneath Eucalyptus,
                                   Corymbia or Angophora (Glossy
                                   Black Conservancy 2010).

 Phascolarctos cinereus            Forest and woodlands with        a   Unlikely to occur as only three koala
 (koala) – listed as               dominance of koala food trees.       habitat trees observed within the site.
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC
                                                                        No scratches or scats were observed
 Act and the EPBC Act
                                                                        during site inspection.

The field investigations did not incidentally identify the presence of any conservation significant fauna
species previously recorded on Wildlife Online and identified in Table 1.




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