2022-04-12-P&E Agenda - Item 6 - Attachment 1 - TNC Noosa_Oyster Project _6_Monthly_Report

                               conference/s                                 National Coast to Coast
                               over 3 years                                 Conference (July 2021)

                                                                            Further opportunities are being
                                                                            sought.
(A5.7) Promote Noosa           1+ New                30 June    Achieved    TNC has secured an additional
Council’s Noosa River Plan     corporate/            2022                   $1.2m under the Reef Builder
and shellfish restoration      government/                                  program to support oyster
project to corporate,          philanthropic                                ecosystem restoration in Noosa.
philanthropic, and             alliances formed
state/federal government                                                    TNC is currently entering a
audiences to establish         1+ New in-kind                               partnership with the QLD
further support for            support/financial                            government-owned Bribie Island
conservation activities that   funding                                      Research Centre (BIRC), to
support the Noosa River        contributions                                enhance its capacity to support
Plan                           secured                                      oyster ecosystem restoration in
                                                                            Noosa and across the state, as
                                                                            well as commercial oyster
                                                                            aquaculture development.

                                                                            TNC is working through its
                                                                            university network to encourage
                                                                            projects which can further
                                                                            knowledge of the Noosa River.
                                                                            TNC is specifically sponsoring
                                                                            one PhD student who is studying
                                                                            shellfish; the Noosa Parks
                                                                            Association who is investigating
                                                                            sediment distribution in the
                                                                            system and Ecological Service
                                                                            Professionals who have been
                                                                            mapping marine habitats,
                                                                            seagrass distribution and
                                                                            seagrass abundance.
(A5.8) Assess feasibility of   1 Habitat             30 June    On track    TNC contracted Ecological
seagrass restoration in        mapping report,       2022                   Service Professionals to develop
Lake Cooroibah as a            habitat                                      a baseline map of seagrass in the
method of reducing             suitability                                  Noosa River estuary and to
sediment resuspension          model, PhD                                   evaluate trends in seagrass
and increasing                 study or similar                             distribution and abundance.
invertebrate biodiversity      output                                       This Seagrass Distribution Report
                               completed and                                is attached as Appendix 2.
                               presented to
                               Noosa Council


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