Attachment 6a - Ecological Assessment Part 1 · MCU18/0015

                           Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



2.2.3.4 Essential Habitat Mapping
Essential Habitat are areas identified by DES as essential habitat for a species of wildlife
listed as endangered, vulnerable or near threatened under the Nature Conservation Act
1992.

Essential habitat, for protected wildlife, means a category A area, a category B area or
category C area shown on the regulated vegetation management map:
   1. that has at least three (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; or
   2. in which the protected wildlife, at any stage of its life cycle, is located.

These areas are shown on RE maps and Essential Habitat maps.


2.2.3.5 Referable Wetlands Mapping
Referable wetlands maps show the location of wetlands as defined under the
Environmental Protection Regulation 2008 and wetland protection areas (WPAs) in the
Great Barrier Reef catchments.

Wetlands on the referrable wetlands maps have been mapped using the Aquatic Biodiversity
Assessment and Mapping Methodology and have been assessed for ecological significance
using the environmental values for wetland in section 81A of the Environmental Protection
Regulation 2008. Wetlands are considered either High Ecological Significance (HES) or of
General Ecological Significance (GES) for the purposes of the environmental values.

WPAs in the Great Barrier Reef catchments consist of two (2) parts: a WPA wetland and a
surrounding assessable development trigger area. WPA wetlands are wetlands in Great
Barrier Reef catchments that have been designated as being of HES. WPA wetlands have a
100m assessable development trigger area in urban zones and 500m assessable
development trigger area in rural zones.

Within WPAs certain types of development or development involving high impact
earthworks (i.e. earthworks that drain, fill or divert water) are made assessable under
Schedule 3 of the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009. The policy outcome and
assessment criteria for assessing these applications are described in the State Planning
Policy 4/11: Protection Wetlands of High Ecological Significance in Great Barrier Reef
Catchments (SPP for GBR Wetlands).


2.2.3.6 SPRP and SPP Koala Habitat Mapping
SPRP and SPP koala habitat mapping show areas within South East Queensland that must
incorporate koala conservation and habitat protection outcomes into planning decisions.
The koala habitat values mapping identifies areas of bushland habitat, areas suitable for
rehabilitation and other areas of value.




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