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

                                                                                         Native Foresters



 CRITERIA                     AVOIDANCE OF                 IMPACT MITIGATION               LIKELIHOOD
                              IMPACT                                                       OF
                                                                                           SIGNIFICANT
                                                                                           IMPACT (SI)

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

 Disrupt the breeding         The most active              If possible, works should       Unlikely, as koalas
 cycle of an important        breeding period for the      occur outside of breeding       generally don’t
 population                   species is from July to      season.                         utilise a specific
                              January. If possible,                                        breeding location.
                              works should be              A Fauna spotter catcher
                              undertaken outside of        will be present to
                              this period to avoid         conduct a pre-clear
                              impacts.                     survey and clearing will
                                                           follow guideline
                                                           recommendations.

 Modify, destroy,             The impact area is           The work area will be           Unlikely
 remove, or isolate or        limited to 1.02ha of         clearly delineated to
 decrease the                 disturbed vegetation         ensure workers do not           Removal of 1.02ha
 availability or quality of   which forms a small          enter vegetation beyond         is 0.4% of the
 habitat to the extent        outcrop on the edge of       the disturbance area and        remaining
 that the species is          the existing landfill,       will only enter these           vegetation on the
 likely to decline            avoiding the higher          areas when strictly             site. This amount
                              quality surrounding          necessary.                      of disturbance to
                              habitat patch.                                               the vegetation is
                                                                                           not likely to
                              Edge effects may                                             decrease the
                              impact the cleared edge                                      availability of
                              of remaining vegetation                                      habitat or quality of
                              however, this is unlikely                                    habitat to the
                              to lead to species                                           extent that the
                              decline.                                                     species are likely
                                                                                           to decline.

 Result in invasive           Weeds- avoiding the          Strict machinery hygiene        Unlikely
 species that are             risk of introduction or      protocols will be
 harmful to an                spread of weeds by           enforced during clearing        Weed control may
 endangered species           minimising area of           and construction to avoid       be necessary to
 becoming established         impact, careful clearing     introduction or spread of       reduce species
 in the endangered            protocols, buffers to        weeds, to be detailed in        becoming
 species’ habitat             landfill green waste         CEMP for works and              established in
                              areas not to be adjacent     operational management          remnant
                              significant vegetation,      plan for the landfill site.     vegetation
                              etc.
                                                           Weed control may be
                              Feral dogs- occupy a         necessary to manage
                              broad range of areas in      encroachment of
                              south-east Queensland        invasive species into
                              and can survive a wide       adjoining remnant
                              range of conditions.         vegetation.


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