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

                                Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



            Scientific Name                               Common Name                          Status#
 Monarcha melanopsis                            Black-faced monarch                             M, Ma
 Monarcha trivirgatus                           Spectacled monarch                              M, Ma
 Myiagra cyanoleuca                             Satin flycatcher                                M, Ma
 Numenius madagascariensis                      Eastern curlew                                CCE, M, Ma
 Numenius minutus                               Little curlew                                   M, Ma
 Numenius phaeopus                              Whimbrel                                        M, Ma
 Pandion haliaetus                              Osprey                                          M, Ma
 Pluvialis fulva                                Pacific golden plover                           M, Ma
 Pluvialis squatarola                           Grey plover                                     M, Ma
 Rhipidura rufifrons                            Rufous fantail                                  M, Ma
 Rostratula benghalensis                        Painted snipe                                    Ma
 Tringa brevipes                                Grey-tailed tattler                               M
 Tringa nebularia                               Common greenshank, Greenshank                   M, Ma
 Xenus cinereus                                 Terek sandpiper                                 M, Ma
 # CCE - Critically Endangered, CE - Endangered, CV – Vulnerable, M – Migratory Ma – Marine
 migratory as listed within schedules of the Commonwealth EPBCA (1999)




2.3.3 DEHP Environmental Mapping
2.3.3.1 Regulated Vegetation Management, Regional Ecosystem and High Value Regrowth
        Mapping
The current regulated vegetation management map of the subject site includes both
Category B (remnant vegetation) and Category X (vegetation not regulated under the VMA)
areas. Category B areas cover the majority of the subject site (1.66 ha). The Regional
Ecosystem (RE) mapping identifies the Category B regulated vegetation as a combination
Of Concern RE consisting of the following REs (FIGURE 5):
    •   RE 12.2.1 (Of Concern) - Notophyll vine forest on parabolic high dunes; and
    •   RE 12.2.5 (Least Concern) - Corymbia intermedia, Lophostemon confertus, Banksia
        spp., Callitris columellaris open forest to low closed forest on beach ridges.

Additionally, small areas (0.14 ha) of Category X vegetation (non-remnant) occur along the
southern and eastern boundaries of the subject site. Other features include an unnamed
watercourse present along the eastern boundary.


2.3.3.2 Essential Habitat Mapping
Essential Habitat for Wallum rocket frog (Litoria freycineti), Wallum froglet (Crinia
tinnula), Wallum sedgefrog (Litoria olongburensis) and Glossy black-cockatoo
(Calyptorhynchus lathami) is mapped on-site concurrent with the mapped remnant
vegetation (FIGURE 5).


2.3.3.3 Referable Wetlands Mapping
Referable Wetlands mapping shows no Referable Wetlands or Wetland Protection Areas on
or near the subject site.




Job No: Q12038/RW3                              JWA Pty Ltd                                            16