Attachment 4 - Terrestrial Ecology Report_RACV_2022 June

Table of Contents

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 4
1.       Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 5
     1.1 Background................................................................................................................................................... 5
     1.2 Purpose ........................................................................................................................................................ 5
     1.3 Site Inspections and Survey Methodology ................................................................................................... 6
     1.4 Structure and Attachments to this Report ................................................................................................... 6
2.       Matters of Environmental Significance – Desktop Analysis ........................................................................... 7
     2.1 Past Reporting and Site History .................................................................................................................... 7
     2.2 Databases and Mapping ............................................................................................................................... 7
     2.3 Commonwealth EPBC Act............................................................................................................................. 7
     2.4 State Remnant Vegetation and Flora Mapping ............................................................................................ 8
     2.5 State Koala Mapping .................................................................................................................................. 10
     2.6 Flying-Fox Colonies ..................................................................................................................................... 10
     2.7 Council Mapping......................................................................................................................................... 11
     2.8 Potentially Occurring Threatened Species ................................................................................................. 12
3.       Vegetation and Flora.................................................................................................................................... 15
     3.1 Subject Land ............................................................................................................................................... 15
     3.2 Council Reserve .......................................................................................................................................... 16
     3.3 Threatened Flora and Threatened Ecological Communities ...................................................................... 16
     3.4 Tree Schedule ............................................................................................................................................. 19
4.       Fauna & Habitats ......................................................................................................................................... 20
     4.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 20
     4.2 Survey Effort ............................................................................................................................................... 20
     4.3 Fauna Habitat ............................................................................................................................................. 21
     4.4 Fauna Inventory ......................................................................................................................................... 21
     4.5 Pest Species ................................................................................................................................................ 22
     4.6 Threatened Species .................................................................................................................................... 22
5.       Proposed Development, Potential Impacts and Management Recommendations .................................... 27
     5.1 Proposed Development.............................................................................................................................. 27
     5.2 Potential Impacts to Vegetation and Flora................................................................................................. 27
     5.3 Potential Impacts to Fauna and Habitats ................................................................................................... 28
     5.4 Impact Mitigation and Management Recommendations .......................................................................... 28
     5.5 Council Biodiversity Overlay Code.............................................................................................................. 29
     5.6 Conclusions ................................................................................................................................................ 29
6.       Attachments................................................................................................................................................. 30




Terrestrial Ecology Assessment – RACV Noosa
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