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

                                                   Ecological Assessment – Attunga Heights



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     Species                   Vegetation Community                     Altitude             Soils                       Site Assessment
                                                                                                     Landscape
                  racemosa, Corymbia citriodora) with heathy
                  understorey; known to persist in small
                  remnants (<10 ha); may be found well away
                  from water.
                  RE 12.2.5 is a listed as a mandatory essential                                                   RE 12.2.5 (mandatory
                  habitat factor for this species. Well vegetated                                                  essential habitat factor)
                  permanent to ephemeral freshwater swamp,                                                         does occur on site however
                  sedgeland, lake or creek, e.g. dense reed                                                        there are no permanent or
                  beds (including Baumea, Restio spp.)                                                             ephemeral acidic/wallum
       Wallum
                  occasionally with Melaleuca quinquenervia or                                                     swamps, or areas of heath
     sedgefrog                                                        Sea level to       Sandy         Near/in
                  Callistemon pachyphyllus, acidic wallum                                                          present. Suitable habitat is
       (Litoria                                                         200 m          substrates    waterbodies
                  swamps and wallum creeks on coastal sand                                                         not considered to occur for
  olongburensis)
                  masses; most abundant in wallum (Banksia                                                         this species.
                  aemula) swamps that seasonally flood where
                  they are found year-round; recorded in
                  adjacent wet heath, dry heath, Gahnia heath
                  and Melaleuca swamp forest/open forest.
                  Lowland and highland eucalypt forest and                                                         Allocasuarina littoralis
                  woodland, including riparian, Callitris and                                                      occurs on the subject site
                  brigalow scrub areas, with Casuarina (C.                                                         and may be utilised by this
   Glossy black-
                  glauca, C. cristata)/Allocasuarina spp. (A.                                                      species as a forage
     cockatoo                                                         Sea level to
                  torulosa, A. littoralis). Nest in large vertical                           None       None       resource. No suitable
 (Calyptorhynchus                                                       1200 m
                  hollow (1-2 m deep, 25-50 cm diameter) up to                                                     nesting sites were observed
      lathami)
                  28 m above ground in tall slightly isolated tree                                                 or are considered to occur
                  usually near principal food source                                                               on site.
                  (Allocasuarina/Casuarina).




Job No: Q12038/RW3                                               JWA Pty Ltd                                                               35