Meeting papers

    Understanding the Environment
    The Noosa River is one of Queensland’s most pristine           Gympie Terrace. Today the foreshore is more similar            Sample Tree Species                                                              Legend
    waterways. Despite the area having been historically           to a traditional parkland, with maintained lawns and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Fish Habitat Areas                          12.1.3 - Mangrove
    heavily modified with the subsequent loss of habitat           scattered large shade trees.                                                                                                                                                                          shrubland to low closed
    and biodiversity, the foreshore still plays an important                                                                      16%                                   13%                                                                                              forest on marine clay
                                                                   Several vulnerable and endangered fauna                                                                                                         Pre-clear Regional Ecosystems
    role hosting a range of plant and animal species of                                                                                                                                                                                                                  plains and estuaries

    conservation significance.                                     species have been observed within the foreshore
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             12.3.4/12.3.5/12.3.11 -
                                                                   and surrounding areas. These include the                                                                                                                  Melaleuca quinquenervia,
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         12.1.2 - Saltpan vegetation
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         including grassland,
    Fish Habitat Areas (highly productive coastal and              critically endangered Eastern Curlew (Numenius                                                                                                            Eucalyptus robusta
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         herbland and sedgeland
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             woodland on coastal
    estuarine networks) exist within Noosa River, and              madagascariensis), the vulnerable Koala                                                                                                                   alluvium/ Melaleuca
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         on marine clay plains
    are designated as such in an effort to restrict urban          (Phascolarctos cinereus), the Western Alaskan Bar-               Melaleuca and                        Moreton Bay Ash                                     quinquenervia open
                                                                                                                                    Casuarina species                    (Corymbia tessellaris)                              forest on coastal alluvium/          Historical Wildlife Observations
    development to maintain ecological significance of             tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri) and the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Eucalyptus tereticornis +/-
    this environment.                                              Common Greenshank (Tringa nebularia). These                                                                                                               Eucalyptus siderophloia,
                                                                   species may use the foreshore for habitat, foraging            12%                                    8%                                                  Corymbia intermedia
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Critically Endangered
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    Prior to European settlement and vegetation clearing,          and refuge. The foreshore regularly hosts an array of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             open forest on alluvial
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             plains usually near coast
    it is important to recognise the foreshore was likely          more common fauna, including various fish species,                                                                                                                                                    Endangered Species
    to have been an open forest and woodland of Broad-             crustaceans, insects, and a variety of birds such as                                                                                                      12.3.5 - Melaleuca
    leaved Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia) and                 seabirds and shorebirds.                                                                                                                                  quinquenervia open forest
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Vulnerable Species

    Swamp Mahogany (Eucalyptus robusta). There have                                                                                                                                                                          on coastal alluvium

    been sedges and ferns, such as Swamp Water Fern                As biodiversity provides important ecosystem                     Forest Red Gum                       Coconut Palm
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    (Blechnum indicum) in wetter areas and grasses and             services such as clean water, fresh air, food, pollination
                                                                                                                                    (Eucalyptus tereticornis)            (Cocos nucifera)                                    12.2.7 - Melaleuca
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                             quinquenervia or rarely                    T       OR
    shrubs in drier areas. Other tree species that may have        and shelter to society, it is important to maintain                                                                                                       M. dealbata open forest             M P I E R ES H
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    been present include a range of Eucalyptus, Corymbia,          and improve the health of the environment on the                8%                                                                                        on sand plains
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    Melaleuca species, Cabbage Tree Palm (Livistona                foreshore, in line with Council’s nature positive goal




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    australis), and Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca).                  in the Corporate Plan. The challenge is to maintain                                                                                                              PAR
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