RFI - Attachment 4C - MSES-MNES Assessment - Noosa Landfill RRC- Revision 3

                                                                                       Native Foresters



Table 1: Summary of MNES in Noosa LRRC expansion area
 MNES                   DESCRIPTION                     TOTAL KOALA HABITAT           TOTAL KHA in Impact
                                                            AREA (KHA)                       Area
 GROUP
                                                       Lot 77 SP298776 (322.13 ha)   Impact Area (1.02 ha)

 Nationally
 threatened species Koala located adjacent to
 and ecological     the impact area (11 records
 communities –      on WildNET), and Habitat
                    Area- Core (SEQ) and               ≈235ha Core (SEQ)             0.21ha Core
                    Locally Refined (SEQ)
 Koala (Endangered) present                            ≈31ha Locally refined         0.81ha Locally refined


                        TOTAL                          ≈266ha Koala habitat          1.02ha Koala habitat



3.2       MNES Significant Impact (SI) Criteria and Assessment

As defined in the Matters of National Environmental Significance Significant impact guidelines
1.1, EPBC ACT 1999 (Commonwealth of Australia, 2013):

An action is likely to have a significant impact on an endangered species if there is a real
chance or possibility that it will:

      •   lead to a long-term decrease in the size of an important population of a species,
      •   reduce the area of occupancy of an important population,
      •   fragment an existing important population into two or more populations,
      •   adversely affect habitat critical to the survival of a species,
      •   disrupt the breeding cycle of an important population,
      •   modify, destroy, remove or isolate or decrease the availability or quality of habitat to
          the extent that the species is likely to decline,
      •   result in invasive species that are harmful to a vulnerable species becoming
          established in the vulnerable species’ habitat,
      •   introduce disease that may cause the species to decline, or
      •   interfere substantially with the recovery of the species.

The relevant MNES that are likely to be impacted by the expansion of the landfill are discussed
below.


3.2.1     Threatened Species – Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)

A review of the Significant Impact (SI) Assessment for MNES- Threatened Species is shown
below in Table 2.




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