Attachment 7B - Fauna and Flora Assessment_NoosaLandfill_NorthernSection_Revision3

                                                                                                                                                 Native Foresters



           Performance Outcomes                                  Acceptable Outcomes                                                 Response

           vibration, dust, light, dewatering or         c)   ensuring stockpiling, storage and vehicle        The works will also be undertaken in accordance
           excavating; and                                    parking occurs outside the identified            with an approved High Risk Species Management
      c)   avoiding clearing in areas where                   vegetation areas; and                            Program (SMP) for:
           erosion or slippage could occur.              d)   using low impact construction techniques
                                                                                                                   • Wallum Froglet (Crinia tinnula) - Vulnerable;
                                                              around vegetation.
                                                                                                                   • Wallum Rocketfrog (Litoria freycineti) -
                                                     AO4.2                                                             Vulnerable;
                                                     Vegetation which is capable of forming or                     • Swamp          Crayfish    (Tenuibranchiurus
                                                     contributing to a buffer between different land uses or           glypticus) – Endangered.
                                                     a buffer against pollution, light spillage or noise is
                                                     retained.                                                 This SMP outlines management of impacts to these
                                                                                                               species breeding habitat and contingency planning.
                                                     AO4.3
                                                     Lighting associated with development:                     The works will also be undertaken in accordance
                                                         a) does not contribute an unacceptable level
                                                                                                               with a Low Risk SMP for least concern fauna species
                                                              of illuminance (greater than 1 lux) for light
                                                              sensitive species within or at the boundary      on site.
                                                              of an ecologically important area; and
                                                         b) does not contribute to an unacceptable             The site is flat and clearing will not result in hillslope
                                                              level of illuminance on landward horizons        erosion or slippage.
                                                              along coastal areas and known marine
                                                              turtle nesting beaches.

                                                     AO4.4
                                                     Clearing of vegetation does not involve clearing that
                                                     may cause or contribute to hillslope erosion, bank
                                                     erosion, or slippage.
 Connectivity
 PO5                                                 AO5                                                       Complies with PO5
 Development is designed and operated to             Development is designed and operated to maintain
 maintain and enhance connectivity between           ecological linkages and maximise opportunity for          The vegetation proposed to be cleared in a 0.9ha of
 and across ecologically important areas and         connectivity and the movement of fauna by:                vegetation “jutting” into the landfill site. It is shown
 connecting habitat and support unimpeded and            a) ensuring protection of wildlife refuges;
 safe movement of terrestrial and aquatic fauna.         b) maintaining vegetation in patches of the
                                                                                                               within the Master Plan to be cleared for landfill uses.
                                                              greatest possible size and within the
                                                              smallest possible edge­to­area ratio;            It does not link to the south, east or west to
                                                         c) enhancing connectivity through planting            vegetation, but is surrounded by landfill in these
                                                              and rehabilitation works, including across       directions. It is connected to the bulk of the
                                                              property boundaries, to areas of national        vegetation on Lot 77 to the north.
                                                              park, state forest or reserve;




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