2021-06-08 Planning & Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                         8 JUNE 2021


The Bushland Reserve Strategic Management Plan:
     describes the values and threats to biodiversity within Council’s bushland reserve network;
     analyses tenure and protective status;
     prioritises individual reserves for active management based on a set of values and feasibility
      of achieving reserve resilience;
     provides a series of recommendations at both the planning and operational levels to achieve
      cost effective outcomes.
Similar to other areas in south-east Queensland, Noosa Council’s bushland reserve network is facing
a number of pressures that threaten its biodiversity values. Many of the reserves within Noosa Shire
are degraded to some extent and will require a large amount of effort and resources to restore them
to an ecologically resilient condition.
The key pressures on these biodiversity values are:
     Pest animals directly impacting on native fauna and flora populations;
     Invasive plants displacing native vegetation and transforming ecosystems;
     Nutrient and sediment pollution of waterways and wetlands with associated impacts on
      biodiversity;
     Inappropriate fire regimes. Insufficient fire activities to maintain the 88.5% fire adapted
      vegetation communities within reserves;
     Interference to vegetation from adjoining property owners;
     Impacts on reserve integrity from unauthorised recreational vehicle use;
     Wildlife/resident conflicts.
This 5-year plan identifies individual reserve values including biodiversity, waterway, carbon sink
capacity, social and cultural values. It assesses the potential for recovery from such threats and this
enables a priority ranking of the 178 bushland reserves into separate ‘Tiers’ of management from 1
to 5, with 1 being the highest priority for management. The results of the assessment are shown on
Map 1.




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