2022-05-10 Planning and Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA   10 MAY 2022




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PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                                   10 MAY 2022

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                o  Species with very few, or no recent verified recordings with the region
                   Species which have limited, or no recent recordings within the Noosa LGA (such as the Spotted-tail quoll)
                   are not suitable indicator species. This is due to the inability to develop useful baseline population data
                   monitoring data and indicative longitudinal studies as a measure of species and habitat recovery.

            3.2.4    Regional threating processes
            From the desktop review of supporting information, the following threats to biodiversity values (and fauna)
            within the Noosa Shire Region were identified;

                *  Climate change impacts (temperature, sea level, fire and weather events)
                e  Planning and development (vegetation clearing and fragmentation)
                   Inappropriate fire regimes (prescribed burning)
                e  Unsustainable and use practices and water management
                e  Invasive species (predation, competition, habitat degradation)
                *  Disease (species specific)
                *  Human / wildlife interactions and conflicts (vehicle strike, domestic animal predation, human conflict)
                *  Marine impacts (water quality, debris, boat strike, by-catch)
                e  Recreational impacts (increasing use of natural areas, four-wheel driving, boating and fishing etc.)

            3.3.     Summary of findings
            The desktop review of supporting information (Section 3) identified the below findings relevant to the planning,
            development and implementation of threatened fauna conservation within the Noosa Region;

                »  Seven (7) key regional habitat types were identified
                >  Four (4) regional threatened ecological communities were identified
                >  Thirty-four (34) fauna species of either state or Commonwealth conservation significance were shortlisted
                >  Nine (9) regional threating processes were nominated as key criteria to determine species success.

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