Attachment G - Fauna and Flora Assessment report

                                                                                           Native Foresters



3.2.2 Vegetation within 100 metre buffer

Three timed meanders were undertaken through the 100 metre buffer zone traversing three
remnant ecosystem types on the Vipassana Centre allotment and one neighbouring private
allotment (Lot 2 on RP35094):

    i.       Least concern RE 12.3.2 - Eucalyptus grandis tall open forest on alluvial plains
    ii.      Least concern RE 12.9-10.7 - Eucalyptus acmenoides, E. major, E. siderophloia +/-
             Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata woodland on sedimentary rocks
    iii.     Endangered RE 12.3.1 - Gallery rainforest (notophyll vine forest) on alluvial plains

The location of the timed meander flora surveys is shown in Figure 2. No EVNT flora species
were recorded. The results of timed meander surveys are summarised in Table 3.

TABLE 3: Results of timed meander flora surveys
 Survey 1 (remnant RE 12.3.2)
 Starting point GPS coordinates: -26.378168oE, 152.857264oS
 Target species: Bosistoa transversa, Cryptocarya foetida, Diteilis simmondsii, Floydia praealta
 Macadamia integrifolia, Macadamia ternifolia, Phaius australis, Samadera bidwillii, Sophora fraseri
 and Triunia robusta.
 Time                Species recorded
 1200
                     Nil
 1230
 Survey 2 (remnant RE 12.9-10.7)
 Starting point GPS coordinates: -26.376790oE, 152.858018oS
 Target species: Bosistoa transversa, Cryptocarya foetida, Floydia praealta Macadamia integrifolia,
 Macadamia ternifolia, Phaius australis, Samadera bidwillii, Sophora fraseri and Triunia robusta.
 Time                Species recorded
 1230
                     Nil
 0100
 Survey 3 (remnant RE 12.3.1)
 Starting point GPS coordinates: -26.376528oE, , 152.856544oS
 Target species: Bosistoa transversa, Cryptocarya foetida, Floydia praealta Macadamia integrifolia,
 Macadamia ternifolia, Pararistolochia praevenosa, Phaius australis, Samadera bidwillii, Sophora
 fraseri and Triunia robusta.
 Time                Species recorded
 0100
                     Nil
 0130




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