Attachment 6 - Ecological Assessment

Ecological Assessment Report v1                                                        NCES REF: J000542
Lot 9 on RP225312 – 100 Cooyar Street, Noosa Heads


In addition to several ‘special least concern’ species, the following conservation significant flora and
fauna species have been recorded within the 2km search extent:
Fauna
        Calidris canutus (red knot) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and EPBC Act;
        Calidris ferruginea (curlew sandpiper) – listed as ‘critically endangered’ under the NC Act and
         the EPBC Act;
        Calidris tenuirostris (great knot) – listed as ‘critically endangered’ under the NC Act and the
         EPBC Act;
        Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami (glossy black-cockatoo (eastern)) – listed as ‘vulnerable’
         under the NC Act and EPBC Act;
        Charadrius mongolus (lesser sand plover) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and the
         EPBC Act;
        Crinia tinnula (wallum froglet) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
        Erythrotriorchis radiatus (red goshawk) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         ‘vulnerable’ under the EPBC Act;
        Esacus magnirostris (beach stone-curlew) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
        Hirundapus caudacutus (white-throated needletail) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act
         and the EPBC Act;
        Limosa lapponica baueri (Western Alaskan bar-tailed godwit) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under
         the NC Act and EPBC Act;
        Litoria freycineti (wallum rocketfrog) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
        Litoria olongburensis (wallum sedge frog) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act and EPBC
         Act;
        Macronectes giganteus (southern giant-petrel) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         the EPBC Act;
        Ninox strenua (powerful owl) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
        Numenius madagascariensis (eastern curlew) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         ‘critically endangered’ under the EPBC Act;
        Petauroides armillatus (central greater glider) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         EPBC Act;
        Pezoporus wallicus wallicus (ground parrot) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
        Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and EPBC Act;
        Podargus ocellatus plumiferus (plumbed frogmouth) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC
         Act;
        Poephila cincta cincta (black throated finch (white-rumped subspecies)) – listed as
         ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and EPBC Act;
        Pteropus poliocephalus (grey-headed flying-fox) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the EPBC
         Act;
        Rostratula australis (Australian painted snipe) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         EPBC Act; and
        Xeromys myoides (water mouse) - listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act and EPBC Act.
Flora
        Acacia attenuata – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act and EPBC Act;
        Acacia baueri subsp. baueri (tiny wattle) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
        Acronychia littoralis (scented acronychia) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         EPBC Act;
        Allocasuarina emuina (Mt. Emu she-oak) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         EPBC Act;


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