2016-12-12 General Committee - Attachment 1 to Item 6 - Biodiversity Assessment Report

                                                 Noosa Biodiversity Plan – Biodiversity Assessment Report




Each vegetation type is associated with a subset of REs, which further describes Noosa’s diverse
vegetation composition into 61 different communities. REs are vegetation communities that are
consistently associated with a particularly combination of geology, landform and soil (termed Land Zone).
It is based on a classification system that allows for the categorical grouping and description of vegetation
communities with similar attributes.

A high proportion of this vegetation is also of conservation significance and identified as either
‘Endangered’ or ‘Of Concern’ under the Queensland Vegetation Management Act 1999 (VM Act). For an
Endangered status this refers to remnant vegetation communities with <10% of the pre-clearing extent
remaining across the SEQ region, and for Of Concern status only 10% - 30% of the pre-clearing extent
remaining.

As part of the SEQ bioregion, Noosa Shire occupies approximately 1.4% of the total area but contains
representations of 39% of the REs that can occur in the bioregion. A complete description of Noosa’s
vegetation types, BVGs and REs is provided in Appendix A. The broad distribution of vegetation types
are shown in Figure 2 and conservation significance discussed further in Section 3.1.2 and Section
3.1.3.




  © ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD                                                                         23