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

Links to Noosa Environment Strategy 2019
Theme 1 - Biodiversity
Goal: By 2030 the condition and extent of our natural ecosystems has improved.

Target                                      Measure                                 Implementation in EBFRs
Strategy 1.1 Protect and enhance existing ecosystems, vegetation networks and habitats
By 2030, there is no net loss of            Bushland Operational Assessments        BOAs were undertaken in some
ecosystem values across the shire,          (BOAs) will be undertaken every 5       EBFRs in 2012, and across all
and the condition of Council’s priority     years across priority Council           EBFRs in 2017. BOAs are being
bushland reserves are enhanced.             managed Bushland Reserves.              repeated in all EBFRs from 2022-23.

Strategy 1.3: Improve long-term survival for threatened species and ecological communities
By 2030, populations of key threatened Monitored as part of the Threatened        The new Threatened Fauna
indicator species remain viable.           Species Plan and reported in the       Recovery Roadmap identifies key
                                           Environment Strategy’s Monitoring      threatened species and provides a
                                           Program.                               framework for ongoing monitoring .
                                                                                  The EBFMP identifies relevant
                                                                                  significant species to help direct their
                                                                                  monitoring and management plan
                                                                                  implementation.




 Activity/project                           Council’s        Strategies       Status in EBFRs in 2022
                                            role
 Undertake environmental restoration        Provider,        1.1, 1.3, 2.1,   BOAs undertaken as required. Completed
 activities throughout Council’s            facilitator,     2.2, 4.3         in 2022-23. Ecological restoration grant
 conservation reserves. Prepare             funder                            ($75,000 / yr over three years FY20-23)
 BOAs for Council reserves to monitor                                         funded by Environment Levy grant,
 the success of work.                                                         delivered by community volunteer
                                                                              directed contractors and volunteers. In
                                                                              2022, Council provides 3 labour days
                                                                              contractor support per reserve per year.
 Reduce the threat of priority              Partner,         1.1, 1.3, 2.2,   See above.
 biosecurity risks, such as pest plants     educator,        4.3              Glory lily continues to expand - areas of
 and animals, on Council land and           provider,                         most other weeds are reducing.
 support private landholders to do the      regulator
 same.
 Identify priority land parcels that        Planner,         1.1, 1.2, 2.2,   The EBFMP identifies east west
 enhance landscape connectivity and         provider         4.1              connectivity and collaboration
 seek to have them managed for                                                opportunities to work with other areas of
 environmental outcomes, either                                               Council to achieve better connectivity
 through direct purchase by Council, or                                       through these areas.
 utilising other appropriate protective
 mechanisms.
 Undertake detailed biodiversity            Partner,         1.1, 1.3         The biodiversity values of the EBFRs
 assessments across different Broad         researcher,                       need to be assessed in a fine-scale
 Vegetation Groups, with a view to          funder                            manner to produce regional ecosystem
 understanding and monitoring the                                             mapping. n. BOAs need to be prepared
 health of biodiversity across the Shire.                                     as 5 yearly condition maps with updated
                                                                              rehabilitation plans.
 Scope and undertake monitoring             Partner,         1.1, 1.3         The EBFRMP identifies relevant
 programs on populations of 6-8 key         researcher,                       significant species and directs their
 representative threatened species, to      funder                            monitoring and management plan
 mitigate against local extinctions.                                          implementation under the Threatened
                                                                              Fauna Recovery Roadmap




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