MCU 14/0106 Appendix F - Ecological Assessment

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Lot: '3' Plan: 'SP246584'

 Vegetation Management Act 1999 - Extract from the essential habitat database

Essential habitat is required for assessment under the:
           • State Development Assessment Provisions - Module 8: Native vegetation clearing which sets out the matters of interest to the state for development assessment under the Sustainable Planning
           Act 2009; and
           • Self-assessable vegetation clearing codes made under the Vegetation Management Act 1999


Essential habitat for one or more of the following species is found on and within 1.1 km of the identified subject lot/s or on and within 2.2 km of an identified coordinate on the accompanying essential habitat
map.
This report identifies essential habitat in Category A, B and Category C areas.
The numeric labels on the essential habitat map can be cross referenced with the database below to determine which essential habitat factors might exist for a particular species.
Essential habitat is compiled from a combination of species habitat models and buffered species records.
The Department of Natural Resources and Mines website (http://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au) has more information on how the layer is applied under the State Development Assessment Provisions - Module 8:
Native vegetation clearing and the Vegetation Management Act 1999.
Regional ecosystem is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated.
Essential habitat, for protected wildlife, means a category A area, a category B area or category C area shown on the regulated vegetation management map-
            1) (a) that has at least 3 essential habitat factors for the protected wildlife that must include any essential habitat factors that are stated as mandatory for the protected wildlife in the essential habitat
            database; or
            2) (b) in which the protected wildlife, at any stage of its life cycle, is located.


Essential habitat identifies endangered or vulnerable native wildlife prescribed under the Nature Conservation Act 1994.


Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation species record) areas:1100m Species Information

(no results)


Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation species record) areas:1100m Regional Ecosystems Information

(no results)


Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation) areas:1100m Species Information


  Label                 Scientific Name                    Common Name               NCA Status               Vegetation Community                                                Altitude             Soils                 Position in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Landscape

  29186                 Phascolarctos cinereus             Koala                     V                        Open eucalypt forest and woodland that has: a) multiple strata      Sea level to         no soil information   None
                        (southeast Queensland                                                                 layers containing Eucalyptus, Corymbia, Angophora,                  1000m.
                        bioregion)                                                                            Lophostemon or Melaleuca trees that—at 1.3 metres above
                                                                                                              the ground—have a diameter both greater and less than 30
                                                                                                              centimetres; and b) at least 1 of the following species:
                                                                                                              Eucalyptus tereticornis, E. fibrosa, E. propinqua; E. umbra, E.
                                                                                                              grandis, E. microcorys, E. tindaliae, E. resinifera, E. populnea,
                                                                                                              E. robusta, E. nigra, E. racemosa, E. crebra, E. exserta, E.
                                                                                                              seeana, Lophostemon confertus, L. suaveolens, Melaleuca
                                                                                                              quinquenervia.

  609                   Litoria freycineti                 Wallum Rocketfrog         V                        Vegetation community is a mandatory essential habitat factor        Sea level to 200m.   Sandy and alluvial    None
                                                                                                              for this species. Freshwater acidic swamps/lagoons                                       substrates.
                                                                                                              (permanent or temporary still water) dominated by sedges
                                                                                                              (e.g. Baumea and Eleocharis spp.) in heathland (e.g.
                                                                                                              Banksia/Xanthorrhoea), wallum (Banksia aemula
                                                                                                              shrubland/woodland) or Melaleuca open forest (e.g. M.
                                                                                                              quinquenervia), and adjacent Eucalyptus racemosa forest,
                                                                                                              also found around acidic coastal lakes; on sand and
                                                                                                              sandstone; can be found well away from water during
                                                                                                              non-breeding season.

  1135                  Pezoporus wallicus wallicus        Ground Parrot             V                        Lowland dry and wet heathland (0.25-1.5m high, diverse              Sea level to 200m.   Sand and clay         Plains and flats.
                                                                                                              shrubs, sedges & rushes), sedgeplain and sedgeland (excl.                                substrates.
                                                                                                              permanent waterbodies); rarely in adjacent Banksia (wallum),
                                                                                                              Hakea or Melaleuca shrubland/woodland with heath
                                                                                                              understorey.

  686                   Crinia tinnula                     Wallum Froglet            V                        Vegetation community is a mandatory essential habitat factor        Sea level to 200m.   Sandy and             None
                                                                                                              for this species. Permanent to ephemeral acidic (pH 4.3 - 5.2),                          sandy-alluvial
                                                                                                              soft freshwater in Melaleuca (e.g. M. quinquenervia) swamps,                             substrates.
                                                                                                              sedgeland, wet and dry heathland (e.g. Banksia robur,
                                                                                                              Xanthorrhoea) and wallum (Banksia aemula
                                                                                                              shrubland/woodland) areas coastal lowlands on sand or
                                                                                                              sandstone, occasionally in adjacent open forest/woodland
                                                                                                              (e.g. Eucalyptus racemosa, Corymbia citriodora) with heathy
                                                                                                              understorey; known to persist in small remnants (<10ha); may
                                                                                                              be found well away from water.

  593                   Litoria olongburensis              Wallum Sedgefrog          V                        Vegetation community is a mandatory essential habitat factor        Sea level to 200m.   Sandy substrates.     Near/in
                                                                                                              for this species. Well vegetated permanent to ephemeral                                                        waterbodies.
                                                                                                              freshwater swamp, sedgeland, lake or creek, e.g. dense reed
                                                                                                              beds (including Baumea, Restio spp.) occasionally with
                                                                                                              Melaleuca quinquenervia or Callistemon pachyphyllus, acidic
                                                                                                              wallum swamps and wallum creeks on coastal sand masses;
                                                                                                              most abundant in wallum (Banksia aemula) swamps that
                                                                                                              seasonally flood where they are found year-round; recorded in
                                                                                                              adjacent wet heath, dry heath, Gahnia heath and Melaleuca
                                                                                                              swamp forest/open forest.




Essential habitat in Category A and B (Remnant vegetation) areas:1100m Regional Ecosystems Information


  Label                                      Regional Ecosystem (this is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated)

  29186                                      12.3.3, 12.3.4, 12.3.6, 12.3.7, 12.3.10, 12.3.11, 12.5.2, 12.5.3, 12.8.14, 12.9-10.4, 12.9-10.7, 12.9-10.17, 12.11.5,
                                             12.11.18, 12.12.12

  609                                        12.2.2, 12.2.5, 12.2.7, 12.2.12, 12.2.13, 12.2.15, 12.3.4, 12.3.5, 12.3.6, 12.3.12, 12.3.13, 12.5.4, 12.5.9, 12.9-10.10,
                                             12.9-10.22. These regional ecosystems are not a mandatory essential habitat factor for this species.

  1135                                       12.2.12, 12.2.13, 12.2.15, 12.3.13, 12.5.9, 12.9-10.22




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