Ecological Assessment Report

If essential habitat is identified on the lot, information about the protected wildlife species is provided in Table 6 below. The
numeric labels on the vegetation management supporting map can be cross referenced with Table 6 to outline the essential
habitat factors for that particular species. There may be essential habitat for more than one species on each lot, and areas of
Category A, Category B and Category C can be mapped as Essential Habitat.

Essential habitat is compiled from a combination of species habitat models and buffered species records. Regional
ecosystem is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated. Essential habitat, for protected wildlife, means an
area of vegetation shown on the Regulated Vegetation Management Map -
       1) that has at least 3 essential habitat factors for the protected wildlife that must include any essential habitat factors
       that are stated as mandatory for the protected wildlife in the essential habitat database. Essential habitat factors are
       comprised of - regional ecosystem (mandatory for most species), vegetation community, altitude, soils, position in
       landscape; or
       2) in which the protected wildlife, at any stage of its life cycle, is located.


If there is no essential habitat mapping shown on the vegetation management supporting map for this lot, and there is no
table in the sections below, it confirms that there is no essential habitat on the lot.

Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C

Table 6: Essential habitat in Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C

 Label       Scientific Name   Common Name      NCA Status   Vegetation Community                                                    Altitude       Soils               Position in Landscape


 860         Phascolarctos     koala            V            Open forests and woodlands containing Eucalyptus, Corymbia,             Sea level to   None                Riparian areas, plains and

             cinereus                                        Lophostemon or Melaleuca trees having a trunk of a diameter             1000m.                             hill/escarpment slopes.

                                                             of more than 10cm at 1.3m above the ground. Tree species

                                                             used for food and habitat varies across the state and can

                                                             include: Corymbia citriodora, Corymbia henryi, Corymbia

                                                             intermedia, Eucalyptus acmenoides, Eucalyptus bancroftii,

                                                             Eucalyptus biturbinata, Eucalyptus blakelyi, Eucalyptus brownii,

                                                             Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus carnea, Eucalyptus

                                                             chloroclada, Eucalyptus coolabah, Eucalyptus crebra,

                                                             Eucalyptus dealbata, Eucalyptus drepanophylla, Eucalyptus

                                                             dunnii, Eucalyptus eugenioides, Eucalyptus exserta,

                                                             Eucalyptus fibrosa, Eucalyptus grandis, Eucalyptus helidonica,

                                                             Eucalyptus latisinensis, Eucalyptus longirostrata, Eucalyptus

                                                             major, Eucalyptus melanophloia, Eucalyptus melliodora,

                                                             Eucalyptus microcarpa, Eucalyptus microcorys, Eucalyptus

                                                             microtheca, Eucalyptus moluccana, Eucalyptus montivaga,

                                                             Eucalyptus orgadophila, Eucalyptus papuana, Eucalyptus

                                                             pilularis, Eucalyptus platyphylla, Eucalyptus populnea,

                                                             Eucalyptus portuensis, Eucalyptus propinqua, Eucalyptus

                                                             racemosa, Eucalyptus resinifera, Eucalyptus robusta,

                                                             Eucalyptus saligna, Eucalyptus seeana, Eucalyptus

                                                             siderophloia, Eucalyptus sideroxylon, Eucalyptus tereticornis,

                                                             Eucalyptus thozetiana, Eucalyptus tindaliae, Eucalyptus umbra,

                                                             Lophostemon confertus, Melaleuca leucadendra, Melaleuca

                                                             quinquenervia.


 1171        Calyptorhynchus   glossy           V            Lowland and highland eucalypt forest and woodland, including            Sea level to   None                None

             lathami           black-cockatoo                riparian, callitris and brigalow scrub areas, with Casuarina (C.        1200m.

                                                             glauca, C. cristata)/Allocasuarina spp. (A. torulosa, A. littoralis).

                                                             Nest in large vertical hollow (1-2m deep, 25-50cm diameter) up

                                                             to 28m above ground in tall slightly isolated tree usually near

                                                             principal food source (Allocasuarina/Casuarina).


 13085       Triunia robusta   None             E            complex notophyll vine forest                                           0 to 300 m     greyish yellow      steep creek bank, alluvial

                                                                                                                                                    loam                terrace, steep rocky hill slope


 13088       Xanthostemon      southern penda   V            microphyll or notophyll vine forest; very tall open forest of           0 to 400 m     sandy or sandy      gully in hilly terrain, crest of low

             oppositifolius                                  Lophostemon confertus, Syncarpia glomulifera, Alphitonia                               clay loam or loam   ridge, alluvial terrace, creek

                                                             excelsa, or Lophostemon confertus-Eucalyptus grandis with                                                  bank

                                                             simple notophyll vine forest midstorey




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