Appendix B - Ecological Assessment Report

4.2      CONSERVATION SIGNIFICANT FLORA SPECIES
No conservation significant flora species listed under the NC Act or the EPBC Act were observed within
the site.

4.3      FAUNA HABITAT
The Eucalypt forest surrounding the build location holds a variety of habitat features including fallen logs
and exfoliating bark and a range of food sources such as flowering gums and fruiting rainforest trees. No
arboreal hollows or nests were observed within the proposed development footprint. No conservation
significant fauna species were incidentally observed during the site investigation. Table 1 provides an
assessment of the habitat values present for the conservation significant fauna species recorded from the
Wildnet database search (refer to Section 3.7).
Table 1 – Habitat value for previously recorded conservation significant fauna species
 Fauna Species                     Habitat Requirements                        Habitat Value within the Site

 Adelotus brevis (tusked frog)     Inhabits wet eucalypt forest, No suitable habitat within proximity to
 – vulnerable (NC Act)             rainforest, and sometimes dry proposed development area.
                                   eucalypt forest, where it can be found
                                   in close proximity to suitable breeding
                                   habitat such as ponds and slow-
                                   moving sections of streams. Also
                                   recorded from dams and garden
                                   ponds in urban and peri-urban areas
                                   (Rowland, 2013a).

 Hirundapus caudacutus             In Australia, the White-throated            Suitable habitat is present within the
 (white-throated needletail) –     Needletail is almost exclusively aerial,    vegetated areas of the site, although
 vulnerable (NC Act & EPBC         from heights of less than 1m up to          species is predominantly aerial and
 Act)                              more than 1000m above the ground.           generalist in nature – therefore habitat
                                   Because they are aerial, it has been        would not be considered important for
                                   stated that conventional habitat            the species.
                                   descriptions are inapplicable. There
                                   are, nevertheless, certain preferences
                                   exhibited by the species. Although
                                   they occur over most types of habitat,
                                   they are probably recorded most
                                   often above wooded areas, including
                                   open forest and rainforest, and may
                                   also fly between trees or in clearings,
                                   below the canopy, but they are less
                                   commonly recorded flying above
                                   woodland. They also commonly occur
                                   over heathland, but less often over
                                   treeless areas, such as grassland or
                                   swamps (DAWE, 2021a).

 Litoria pearsoniana (cascade      Found in rainforest gullies and No suitable habitat within proximity to
 tree frog) – vulnerable (NC       adjacent wet sclerophyll forest, in proposed development area.
 Act)

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