Cover Letter, DA Form 1, Plans, Owners Consent, Coastal Environment Assessment · OPW21/0049

 Noosa Spit Coastal Protection Environmental Assessment                                           12
 Matters of State Environmental Significance




         Table 3-1      Shorebird abundance for species with NC Act conservation value (NICAI
                                                 2020)

          Species                     Status                 Recent peak            Count trend
                                                             (most observed
                                      NC Act        EPBC
                                                             within the last 2
                                                    Act
                                                             years)
          Beach stone-curlew                                 2                      Stable
          Lesser sand plover          E                      2                      -
          Curlew sandpiper            E                      1                      Declining
          Western Alaskan bar-        V                      43                     Declining
          tailed godwit
          Eastern curlew              E                      1                      Declining
          Red knot                                           1                      -

        E=Endangered, V=Vulnerable

        The general trend of declining abundance of shorebird and waders is also observed more
        broadly at the Eastern Asian-Australasian level. This declining trend is attributed to changing
        climates resulting in altered habitats and food sources. Although the lower Noosa River habitat
        remains largely unchanged the local level the impacts of predation, urbanisation and declines
        in benthic biodiversity may have contributed the local shorebird decline.

3.3.1.2 Marine Turtles
        Marine turtles would occasionally utilise the area however the lack of seagrass would mean
        that their occurrence is irregular. No nesting sites are known in the area proposed for beach
        nourishment.




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