2022-09-06 P&E Agenda - Item 5 - Attachment 1 - Six Mile Creek Bridge Replacement Offset Report - TMR

Legislation/ policy/plans   Legislative jurisdiction   Intent                                                                              Applicability to proposed action
Threat abatement plans      MNES                       Threat abatement plans provide for the research, management, and                    Threat abatement plans relevant to MNES associated
                                                       any other actions necessary to reduce the impact of a listed key                    with the proposed action include:
                                                       threatening process on native species and ecological communities.                   a)    Threat abatement plan for disease in natural
                                                       Implementing the plan should assist the long-term survival in the                         ecosystems caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi
                                                       wild of affected native species or ecological communities
                                                                                                                                           b)    Threat abatement plan for the biological effects,
                                                                                                                                                 including lethal toxic ingestion, caused by cane
                                                                                                                                                 toads (Rhinella marina)
                                                                                                                                           c)    Threat abatement plan for predation, habitat
                                                                                                                                                 degradation, competition and disease transmission
                                                                                                                                                 by feral pigs (Sus scrofa)
                                                                                                                                           d)    Threats identified in the Threat abatement plan for
                                                                                                                                                 competition and land degradation by rabbits
                                                                                                                                           e)    Threat abatement plan for predation by feral cats
                                                                                                                                           f)    Threat abatement plan for predation by the
                                                                                                                                                 European red fox
                                                                                                                                           Threat abatement plans approved by DAWE are
                                                                                                                                           accessible at the at the following internet location:
                                                                                                                                           https://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threate
                                                                                                                                           ned/threat-abatement-plans/approved
Queensland legislation
Nature Conservation Act     Queensland                 The NC Act provides for the conservation of nature through                          The following permits and management plans will be
1992 (Qld) (NC Act)                                    protection of all native plants, birds, reptiles, mammals and                       required for the proposed action:
                                                       amphibians in Queensland (along with a limited range of                              Exempt clearing notification to the Department of
                                                       invertebrates and freshwater fish). The NC Act is based on                             Environment and Science (DES).
                                                       principles aimed at conserving biological diversity, ecologically
                                                                                                                                            Rehabilitation Permit (spotter catcher endorsement)
                                                       sustainable use of wildlife, ecologically sustainable development
                                                       and international criteria developed by the International Union                        (Part 14 of the Nature Conservation (Animals)
                                                       for the Conservation of Nature for establishing and managing                           Regulation 2020)
                                                       protected areas.                                                                     Species management program must be submitted to

                                                       The following instruments regulate disturbance to flora, fauna                         DES for approval for tampering with some animal
                                                       and habitat under the NC Act:                                                          breeding places (Section 33 of the Nature
                                                                                                                                              Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020).
                                                        Nature Conservation (Animals) Regulation 2020 (Qld), which
                                                           prohibits the taking or destruction, without authorisation, of
                                                           protected animals and lists all fauna species that are considered
                                                           to be extinct in the wild, endangered, vulnerable, near
                                                           threatened, least concern and special least concern wildlife
                                                           (refer Glossary and Abbreviations for definitions of these terms).
                                                           Also listed is international wildlife and prohibited wildlife.



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