2016-04-19 P&E Committee - Item 4, Attachment 1 - Draft Koala Conservation Management Plan

         Map 1. Extent of the State SPRP Koala Habitat Areas in Noosa Shire

The SPRP provide measures to avoid/mitigate the impacts of development in SPRP
mapped koala habitat areas and has similar provisions to the Commonwealth referral
guidelines:
     avoiding, minimising or offsetting the clearing of non-juvenile koala habitat
        trees
     site design that provides safe koala movement opportunities appropriate to the
        development type and habitat connectivity values of the site
     construction phases that do not increase the risk of death or injury to koalas
     clearing of native vegetation, undertaken as sequential clearing
     clearing of koala habitat trees, undertaken in the presence of a koala spotter.

The SPRP calls up the ‘Nature Conservation (Koala) Conservation Plan 2006 and
Management Program 2006-2016’ and ‘Koala-sensitive Design Guideline: A guide to
koala-sensitive design measures for planning and development activities’ to inform
decision makers on development conditions.

The Queensland Environment Offsets Policy 2014 has provisions for offsetting the
residual impacts of unavoidable development on koala habitat. Again, this only applies
to the mapped SPRP Koala Habitat Areas. Most koala habitat in Noosa occurs outside
this mapped area. Koala offset plantings have been delivered in Girraween Nature
Refuge, under the former Offsets for Net Gain in Koala Habitat in South East
Queensland Policy (2010), which is now integrated into the Queensland Environment
Offsets Policy 2014.

The State Government Supported Community Infrastructure Koala Conservation
Policy (2014) outlines how state public sector entities will consider koala conservation

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