UPDATED DA - Attachment 8 - Flora and Fauna Assessment

                                                                                                            Native Foresters




APPENDIX C – CERTIFICATION OF SUITABLY QUALIFIED
PERSON FOR FLORA SURVEY
Native Foresters flora surveys are undertaken by competent and trained personnel. The flora survey at the Noosa Resource
and Recovery Centre was coordinated and led by Vanessa Moscato with assistance from Emily Kost.

Vanessa Moscato BSc (Hons) is an ecological consultant with 20 years’ experience in the following:

            Conducting ecological research and fauna and flora surveys’;
            Local native flora identification, Regional Ecosystems and QLD Herbarium botanical specimen submissions;
            Habitat restoration and revegetation; and
            Fauna spotter-catching.

Since 2006, Vanessa has been conducting flora surveys in the Sunshine Coast and Southeast Queensland region and
has been previously certified to lead flora surveys with the following project:

            Nambour Landfill (Native Foresters, 2015).

The following statement is provided in certification of the suitably qualified person who conducted the flora survey.
     (1) “I certify that:

     a)     I have adhered to all statutory requirements and flora survey guideline requirements; and
     b)     In the area surveyed I have not found plants that are currently listed as extinct, extinct in the wild, critically
            endangered, endangered, vulnerable or near threatened in the Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020;
            and
     c)     The flora survey report is an accurate and full account of the flora survey.


Name:                 Vanessa Moscato


Signature:


Date:                 10th July 2024




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