2022-11-14 GC Agenda - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Draft Eastern Beaches Foreshore Management Plan

7. Ecology
Stretching 11.5 kilometres along Noosa’s Eastern Beaches foreshore, and covering about 122
hectares, the EBFRs have a range of on-site and strategic ecological values.


Habitat
The EBFRs conserve wildlife habitat unique to open beach coasts. A range of land bird, shore
birds, reptiles, including sea turtles, and mammals rely on the interaction of land, beach and in-
shore ecosystems that occur in coastal dunes.


Significant species
Several species scheduled as Endangered, Vulnerable, or Near Threatened (E, V, NT) under the
Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act (Cth) 1999 and/or Nature Conservation Act (QLD)
1992 occur or have suitable habitat in the EBFRs and may have species management and other
management documents that require consideration in the EBFR.

Scheduled species include;
      Caretta caretta — Loggerhead Turtle (V EPBACA, V NCA)
      Chelonia mydas – green turtle (V EPBACA, V NCA)
      Litoria olongburensis - wallum sedge frog (V EPBCA)
      Litoria freycineti – wallum Rocket Frog (V NCA)
      Crinia tinnula - wallum froglet) V NCA
      Calyptorhynchus lathami - glossy black-cockatoo -. (V NCA)
      Phasocolartus cinerus - Koala. (V SEQ bioregion NCA)

The mapped ecosystems are recognised as having the following potential significant plant species
values:

12.2.5. Potential habitat for NCA listed species: Acacia attenuata, Acacia baueri subsp. baueri,
Boronia rivularis, Durringtonia paludosa, Glycine argyrea, Macarthuria complanata, Maundia
triglochinoides, Persicaria elatior, Phaius australis. This ecosystem is also known to provide
suitable habitat for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus).

12.2.7. Habitat for threatened plant species including Phaius australis, P. bernaysii and near
threatened species including Durringtonia paludosa. This ecosystem is also known to provide
suitable habitat for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus).

12.2.13. Habitat for threatened plant species including Allocasuarina emuina, Acacia attenuata, A.
baueri subsp. baueri, Prasophyllum wallum and near threatened species including Macarthuria
complanata.

12.2.15. Potential habitat for NCA listed species: Durringtonia paludosa, Eleocharis difformis,
Maundia triglochinoides, Thelypteris confluens


Ecosystems
Most of Castaways Beach Foreshore Reserve, Marcus Beach Foreshore Reserve, Peregian
Beach Foreshore Reserve North, Peregian Beach Foreshore Reserve South and Peregian Creek
Bushland Reserve are mapped as remnant Regional Ecosystem (RE) 12. 2.14.


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