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

                                                     Noosa Biodiversity Plan – Biodiversity Assessment Report




    •   Utilising the corridor mapping to guide land acquisition programs and restoration/revegetation to
        re-establish contiguous vegetated links to core habitat
    •   Incorporating corridor mapping into the Planning Scheme to discourage/prevent development
        within identified corridors and/or require revegetation for such developments to proceed
    •   Identifying priority corridors for offset delivery of Matters of Local Environmental Significance

Overall, only 2.7% of habitat within the Noosa Shire consists of an isolated patch or unsupported habitat
nodes (Figure 8). The corridors as well as the habitat nodes across Noosa provide a network from north
to south as well as east to west that connects various habitat types and altitudinal ranges, critical for
dispersing fauna particularly migratory species as well as fauna species with large home ranges (Figure
9). Outside of Noosa’s LGA boundaries, the connected network provides linkages to the Maroochy
Wallum heath corridor that extends south to Coolum, the Blackall Range that extends south to Mapleton
and Obi Obi, Woondum and Beenham Range complex that extends north-west and the Great Sandy
Strait region that extends along the coastline to the north of Noosa.




                                                                    Small node
           Large node, 29.82%                                   unsupported, 1.06%         Small node
                                                                                        supported, 5.15%




                                     Other, 26.01%                                                Medium node,
    Cleared, scattered                                                          Patch with
                                                                                                     6.89%
 trees, sparse regrowth,                                                          direct
          32.88%                                                              connection to
                                                                               node, 9.85%


                           Urban matrix,
                              11.30%
                                                                                                  Isolated patch,
                                                                                                       1.11%

                                                                           Patch with indirect
                                                                          connection to node,
                                                                                 1.95%

Figure 8: Proportion of landscape elements across the Noosa Shire




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