Attachment 6 - Ecological Assessment

                           Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



Database searches using the Commonwealth PMST also revealed that two (2) threatened
Ecological Communities are known to occur within 5km of the subject site:

      Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia – critically endangered
      Subtropical and Temperate Coastal Saltmarsh - vulnerable.


2.3.2.2 Threatened Fauna Species and Migratory Species
Database searches using the Commonwealth PMST identified twenty-four (24) threatened
fauna species that may occur within 5km of the subject site based on the availability of
suitable habitats. The DEHP Wildlife Online database indicated that twenty-one (21)
threatened fauna species have been recorded from within 5km of the subject site.

Threatened fauna species detected in the database searches are listed in TABLE 3. The
conservation status of each species listed in TABLE 3 is shown in accordance with the
Commonwealth EPBC Act (1999) and the Queensland NCWR (2006). Marine species that
will clearly not occur on the site (e.g. albatross, whales, sea turtles) have been omitted.

Database searches using the Commonwealth PMST also revealed that twenty-eight (28)
migratory species may occur within 5km of the site based on the availability of suitable
habitat. Migratory species identified in database searches are listed in TABLE 4.

                                     TABLE 3
DATABASE RECORDS OF LISTED THREATENED FAUNA SPECIES WITHIN 5KM OF THE SITE
          Scientific Name                 Common Name           EPBC# NCWR*
Anthochaera phrygia             Regent honeyeater                CCE   (QE)
Botaurus poiciloptilus          Australasian bittern              CE     -
Calidris canutus                Red knot                          (E)    -
Calidris ferruginea             Curlew sandpiper                 CCE     -
Calidris tenuirostris           Great knot                      (CCE)    -
Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami Glossy black-cockatoo (eastern)    -    QV
Chalinolobus dwyeri             Large-eared pied Bat              CV   (QV)
Charadrius leschenaultii        Greater sand plover               CV     -
Charadrius mongolus             Lesser sand plover                CE     -
Crinia tinnula                  Wallum froglet                     -    QV
Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni  Coxen's fig-parrot                CE   (QE)
Dasyurus hallucatus             Northern quoll                    CE     -
Dasyurus maculatus maculatus
                                Spot-tailed quoll                 CE   (QV)
(SE mainland population)
Delma torquata                  Collared delma                    CV   (QV)
Erythrotriorchis radiatus       Red goshawk                       CV    QE
Esacus magnirostris             Beach stone-curlew                 -    QV
                                White bellied storm-petrel
Fregetta grallaria grallaria                                      CV     -
                                (Australasian)
Lathamus discolor               Swift parrot                     CCE   (QE)
Litoria freycineti              Wallum rocketfrog                  -    QV
Litoria olongburensis           Wallum sedge frog                 CV    QV
Nannoperca oxleyana             Oxleyan pygmy perch              (CE)   QV
Numenius madagascariensis       Eastern curlew                   CCE    QV
Petauroides volans              Greater glider                    CV     -



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