2022-12-12 General Committee Meeting Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   12 DECEMBER 2022




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GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                12 DECEMBER 2022

             ATTACHMENT 5

             Environmental Services comments on Lot 7MCH4562 — Noosa
             North Shore Airfield
             Aug 2022
             Environmental Services fully supports the Department of Environment and Science
             wish to include Lot 7MCH4562 into Cooloola National Park for the following reasons.
             Environmental Values
             The property has significant biodiversity values as outlined in the provided report and
             summarized below:
             ¢   The reserve is largely intact with 406ha of (95%) remnant vegetation providing
                 strong connectivity to the adjoining Cooloola section of the Great Sandy National
                 Park.
             «   The mapped regional ecosystems onsite are closed heath on seasonally
                 waterlogged sand plains RE12.2.12 and Melaleuca quinquenervia open forest on
                 sand plains RE12.2.7
             ¢   The reserve falls within Matters of State Environmental Significance including:
                 o 363ha (84.7%) of the area listed as High Ecological Significance wetlands on
                   the map of referable Wetlands,
                 o 401ha (94%) of subject area listed as essential habitat for Threatened
                    (endangered or vulnerable) wildlife (over a dozen endangered, vulnerable and
                    near threatened species are known to be found in the area),
                 o 188ha (44%) of the subject area is listed as Koala habitat - core (SEQ),
                 o an additional 191ha (45%) of the subject area is listed Koala habitat — locally
                    refined (SEQ),
                 o 380ha (89%) is listed as Regulated Vegetation -Essential Habitat.
             *   The Lot contains a significant portion (380 hectares) having State conservation
                 significance and critical habitat value for the Eastern Ground Parrot (Pezoporus
                 wallicus wallicus) which is classed as ‘vulnerable’ under the Nature Conservation
                 Act 1992.
             ¢   The Lot is recognised as a “priority area” for offset investment for Core Ground
                 Parrot Habitat in response to the significant loss of habitat due to coastal
                 development.
             ¢«  The Ground Parrot Habitat is a key value of the Cooloola National Park as well
                 as several significant species, migratory wader species and acid frog species,
                 which rely on REs 12.2.12 and 12.2.7.

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