Response to Info Request - Attachment 6a - Ecological Assessment Part 1 MCU18-0015 & RAL18-0015 · MCU18/0015

                           Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



2.2.3.2 Regulated Vegetation Management Mapping
Regulated vegetation management maps are used to determine the requirements that
apply under the State Development Assessment Provisions (VMA 1999). The vegetation
categories on the map are:
   •   category A (red) - areas subject to compliance notices, offsets and voluntary
       declarations;
   •   category B (dark blue) - remnant vegetation;
   •   category C (light blue) - high-value regrowth vegetation;
   •   category R (yellow) - regrowth vegetation within 50m of watercourses in priority
       reef catchment areas; and
   •   category X (white) - areas not regulated under the Vegetation Management Act
       1999.


2.2.3.3 Regional Ecosystems, High Value Regrowth and PMAV Mapping
Regional ecosystems (REs) are vegetation communities that are consistently associated
with a particular combination of geology, land form and soil in a bioregion. Each RE has
been assigned a conservation status which is based on its current extent in a bioregion as
a proportion of its pre-clearing extent. Regional ecosystem maps show the extent and
conservation status of regional ecosystems at a property level. On a regional ecosystem
map, remnant vegetation is shown as either a remnant endangered regional ecosystem, a
remnant of concern regional ecosystem, or a remnant least concern regional ecosystem.

High value regrowth (HVR) vegetation is defined as native woody vegetation that has not
been cleared for 15 years and is also shown as either a high value regrowth that is an
endangered regional ecosystem, high value regrowth that is an of concern regional
ecosystem, or high value regrowth that is a least concern regional ecosystem.

The Queensland Herbarium has mapped the extent of RE’s, HVR and Essential Habitat
across Queensland, however it should be noted that mapping was completed at scales of
between 1:25,000 and 1:100,000 and as such there are inaccuracies at a property scale. As
a result, RE maps should be considered to indicative only and should not be relied upon as
an inherently correct source of vegetation mapping. Site ground truthing is required to
confirm the presence of RE types and their extent, verify floristics and structure and
confirm conservation status.

A Property Map of Assessable Vegetation (PMAV) is a property scale map that is prepared
to amend the Regulated Vegetation Management Mapping in cases where it does not
accurately reflect the site’s ground truthed vegetation distribution, or in other cases, to
‘lock in’ the current extent of remnant and non-remnant vegetation.




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