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

                                                                                                                                  Native Foresters



 Scientific Name Common                NCA        EPBC        Likelihood       Habitat Preferences                      Presence of breeding places or
                 Name                 status      status          of                                                    breeding habitat
                                                              occurrence
 Rostratula                                                                    Inhabits shallow, brackish or
                       Australian
                                                              Possible         freshwater terrestrial wetlands,         Absent.
 australis             Painted            -          E
                                                                               especially temporary ones with muddy
                       Snipe
                                                                               margins and small, low-lying islands.
 Ninox strenua         Powerful                                                Found in open forests, woodlands,        Potential habitat present (areas
                       Owl                                                     and along sheltered gullies, often       mapped as RE 12.5.4/12.5.3), but
                                                                               near water. Will sometimes be found      no individuals detected.
                                         V            -           Likely       in open areas near forests, farmland,
                                                                               parks and suburban areas, as well as
                                                                               in remnant bushland. Nests in old
                                                                               growth trees.
                                                                               Inhabits lowland, coastal plains with    Absent.
 Pezoporus                                                                     dry and wet heath and sedgelands
                       Ground            V            -          Possible      (excluding permanent waterbodies).
 wallicus wallicus     Parrot
                                                                               Prefers sites that undergo 5 – 8 year
                                                                               fire intervals.
 Turnix                Black-                                                  Restricted to rainforests and forests,   Absent
 melanogaster          breasted          V           V          Possible       low closed forests, particularly semi-
                       Button                                                  evergreen vine thicket, low microphyll
                       Quail                                                   vine forest, notophyll vine forest.
 Reptiles

                                                                               Shelters under rocks in Eucalypt-        Potential habitat present, no
                       Collared                               Possible                                                  targeted survey (herptile funnel
 Delma torquata                          V           V                         dominated woodlands and open-
                       Delma                                                                                            trapping) conducted.
                                                                               forests on Land zone 3, 9 and 10

 Amphibians
                                                                                                                        Potential breeding habitat
                                                                                                                        present throughout areas
                                                                                                                        mapped as RE 12.3.13 and
                                                                               Habitat specialist requires
                       Wallum                                                                                           12.3.5 (core habitat) and RE
 Crinia tinnula                          V            -       Known            ephemeral, acidic, wallum wetland
                       Froglet                                                                                          12.5.4 and 12.5.3 (non-core).
                                                                               but tolerant of disturbance.
                                                                                                                        Large population identified within
                                                                                                                        200 metres of the landfill edge.
                                                                                                                        Refer to Figure 5 and 15.



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