Attachment 7C - Flora and Fauna Survey Assessment_Noosa Landfill - Revision 3

                                                                                      Native Foresters



When flowering, the Eucalypt, Corymbia and Melaleuca trees provide blossoms which are
an important food source for gliders, birds, possums and bats, including Vulnerable-listed
Grey-headed Flying Fox (Pteropus poliocephalus).

The semi-closed woodland canopy allows sufficient light penetration to provide suitable
microhabitat conditions for a number of reptiles and litter-foraging invertebrates. There are
a number of arboreal hollows, hollows at ground level and fallen hollow logs that also
provide refuge for small mammals and reptiles.

In addition to breeding habitat, Wallum frogs require a variety of habitat types that provide
food sources; fire and flood refuges and essential dispersal routes between these refuges
(Meyer et al. 2006). They also need a variety of habitats to maintain genetic diversity. Areas
of Eucalypt forest and woodland, whilst not providing breeding habitat, may play a critical
role in the maintenance of areas where they do breed e.g. maintaining hydrology and water
quality within the catchment. With the exception of the Wallum Sedgefrog, there are records
of Wallum frogs in rainforest, eucalypt forest and eucalypt woodland, at some distance from
water (Queensland DNR, 2000; E. Meyer, unpub. data). As such, it is considered likely that
during non-breeding periods, Wallum Froglets (and potentially Wallum Rocketfrogs) may
disperse into the Eucalypt woodland habitats that occur between the landfill and the
breeding habitat areas (i.e. the RE12.5.4 vegetation communities), where they can be
found sheltering in crayfish burrows or under leaf litter.

Overall, the Scribbly gum and closed heathland vegetation communities were found to be
in very good ecological condition, with Singapore daisy and environmental weeds generally
limited in extent to the 25 metres beyond the landfill boundary and weed presence
decreasing to almost nil as distance from the landfill edge increased.

Table 6 provides an analysis of the potential presence of threatened species as listed in
WildNET and/or the EPBC Protected Matters Search Tool or based on the field habitat
suitability assessment that may occur within the area and comments on the likelihood of
those species occurring in or around the Potential Impact Area.

Figure 16 shows areas of fauna breeding habitats occurring onsite.




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