Minor Change Application -Cover Letter

| wish to apply for an amendment to the fencing requirement for the following reasons:

1.

The construction of an exclusion fence, such as this (or indeed any fence), would not only
block the access of native fauna, particularly the Eastern Grey Kangaroo (of which there is a
healthy population in the vicinity) and the resident Whiptail Wallabies, to their feeding
areas, water and refuge within the proposed vegetation covenant, but it would also
compromise the ability of these species to safely navigate through their environment.

‘Unlike most other species affected by barbed wire, macropods (mostly kangaroos and
wallabies) commonly get caught in plain, barbed or mesh fences’

wildlifefriendlyfencing.org/injuries/injuries-macropods