2022-02-14 - General Committee Agenda - Item 4 -Attachment 1 - ECOLOGICAL VALUES REPORT 30 Toulambi St

Ecological Values Report v1                                                                        NCES REF: J001021
Lot 15 on RP129286 – 30 Toulambi Street, Noosa Heads


 Previously Recorded                Preferred Habitat                       Habitat Value within the Site
 Fauna Species
 as ‘vulnerable’ under the          woodlands with a stratum of
 NC Act                             Allocasuarina beneath Eucalyptus,
                                    Corymbia or Angophora (Glossy
                                    Black Conservancy 2010).

 Crinia tinnula (wallum             Inhabits acid paperbark (Melaleuca)     Nil – no suitable habitat observed
 froglet) – listed as               swamps, sedgelands and drainage         within the site. However, potential
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC          lines in wet heath. Also found in       habitat is present to the north of the
 Act                                disturbed wallum habitat, such as       site.
                                    exotic pine plantations, quarry site,
                                    recently burnt heathland, 4WD-
                                    impacted areas and roadsides
                                    (Queensland Government 2019).

 Litoria freycineti (Wallum         Freshwater       wetlands        and    Nil – no suitable habitat observed
 rocketfrog) - listed as            associated vegetation communities       within the site. However, potential
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC          occurring on low nutrient sandy soils   habitat is present to the north of the
 Act                                                                        site.

 Litoria olongburensis              Subtropical or tropical swamps,         Nil – no suitable habitat observed
 (wallum sedgefrog) – listed        wallum swamps, freshwater lakes,        within the site. However, potential
 as ‘vulnerable’ under the          intermittent     freshwater   lakes,    habitat is present to the north of the
 NC Act and the EPBC Act;           freshwater         marshes,      and    site.
                                    intermittent freshwater marshes.

 Pezoporus wallicus wallicus        Coastal heathland or sedgeland with     Nil – no suitable habitat observed
 (ground parrot) - listed as        very dense cover and a high density     within the site.
 vulnerable’ under the NC           of the parrot's food plants (DES,
 Act                                2020).

 Phascolarctos cinereus             Forest and woodlands with          a    Potential foraging and breeding
 (koala) – listed as                dominance of koala food trees.          within Eucalypt trees.
 ‘vulnerable’ under the NC
 Act and the EPBC Act


5.0 CONCLUSION
This Ecological Values Report has been prepared to assess the ecological values present within a
small urban lot located at 30 Toulambi Street, Noosa Heads.
The site measures 789m² and is dominated by an open forest vegetation community host to a mix
of eucalypt rainforest canopy and mid-canopy species over a disturbed understorey. The vegetation
is analogous to RE 12.2.5 Corymbia intermedia +/- Lophostemon confertus +/- Banksia spp. +/-
Callitris columellaris open forest on beach ridges usually in southern half of bioregion which is
mapped immediately adjacent to the site.
No conservation significant plant species listed under the schedules of the Queensland Nature
Conservation Act 1992 (NC Act), or the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999 were observed within or immediately bordering the site during the brief site
inspection.
The site is surrounded by a highly modified landscape host to urban development to the south, east,
and west and Pinnaroo Park to the north, which comprises an approximate 5.75ha discrete parcel
of open forest and paperbark wetlands thereby offering an island refuge for local flora and fauna in
the otherwise developed landscape. The site habitat is expected to function as edge habitat to that
within Pinnaroo Park and offers an approximate 40m wide vegetated buffer thereto which has
inherently influenced the establishment of rainforest flora abutting the northern boundary.
The site represents an end point of the Pinnaroo Park vegetation patch and is expected to be
primarily utilised by Least Concern listed bird, possum and reptile species. No flying foxes were


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