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


3.1.6 Wildlife Online database
The Wildlife Online database was queried in February 2022 using a 2km search radius (refer
Appendix 1). In addition to several ‘special least concern’ species, the following conservation
significant flora and fauna species have been recorded within the 1km search extent:
NOTE: A 1km search radius was chosen to better reflect the localised species composition
surrounding the site and avoid a large volume of results derived from the nearby parcels of Noosa
National Park and Noosa river wetlands. This would be considered unreflective of the sites potential
species composition given that the site has no connectivity to either Noosa National Park or Noosa
River areas.
Fauna
    •    Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami (glossy black-cockatoo (eastern)) – listed as ‘vulnerable’
         under the NC Act;
    •    Crinia tinnula (wallum froglet) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
    •    Litoria freycineti (wallum froglet) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
    •    Litoria olongburensis (wallum sedgefrog) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act and EPBC
         Act;
    •    Pezoporus wallicus wallicus (ground parrot) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act; and
    •    Phascolarctos cinereus (koala) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act and the EPBC Act.
Flora
    •    Acacia baueri subsp. baueri (tiny wattle) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act;
    •    Allocasuarina emuina (Mt. Emu she-oak) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act and
         EPBC Act;
    •    Blandfordia grandiflora (christmas bells) – listed as ‘endangered’ under the NC Act;
    •    Cryptocarya foetida (stinking cryptocarya) – listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the NC Act and
         EPBC Act;
    •    Macarthuria complanata – listed as ‘near threatened’ under the NC Act; and
    •    Symplocos harroldii (hairy hazelwood) – listed as ‘near threatened’ under the NC Act.
3.1.7 EPBC Act Protected Matter Search Tool
The EPBC Act Protected Matters Search Tool was queried in February 2022 using a 1km search
radius. The EPBC Protected Matters Search uses bio-climatic modelling to predict where protected
matters may be present in an area and therefore does not necessarily indicate the actual recorded
presence of protected matters.
The EPBC Act Protected Matters Search Tool result identified that the following Matters of National
Environmental Significance (MNES) have the potential to be present within a 1km radius of the site
(refer to Appendix 1):
    •    The ‘Endangered’ Coastal Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca) Forest of New South Wales and
         South East Queensland Threatened Ecological Community;
    •    The ‘Endangered’ Coastal Swamp Sclerophyll Forest of New South Wales and South East
         Queensland Threatened Ecological Community;
    •    The ‘Critically Endangered’ Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia Threatened
         Ecological Community;
    •    The ‘Vulnerable’ Subtropical and Temperate Coastal Saltmarsh Threatened Ecological
         Community;
    •    19 threatened flora species;
    •    50 threatened terrestrial fauna species; and
    •    Marine, terrestrial and wetland migratory bird species.

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