Ecological Assessment Letter Report · MCU26/0104

 DESKTOP SEARCH RESULTS
 TABLE 1 provides a summary of the results of the database searches and mapping details for the Site. The table also lists the appendix where the detailed
 search reports and maps can be found.
 Table 1: Desktop Review Findings

             Legislation                                  Database Map/Searches                                                     Findings
   Commonwealth
   Environment Protection               Protected Matter Search Tool                            The Protected Matters Search indicates that the following MNES may have natural
   and Biodiversity                     •    Based on a 1km radius of the lot and plan real     geographic ranges that overlap the property:
   Conservation Act 1999                     property description                               •   Four (4) threatened ecological communities:
   (EPBC Act)                           •    From Department of Climate Change, Energy, the          ‒   Coastal Swamp Oak (Casuarina glauca) Forest of New South Wales and
   •    MNES including listed                Environment and Water (DCCEEW) at                           South East Queensland ecological community, Endangered
        species and ecological               https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/prote        ‒   Coastal Swamp Sclerophyll Forest of New South Wales and South East
        communities                          cted-matters-search-tool                                    Queensland, Endangered
                                        •    Accessed 05/10/2026                                     ‒   Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia, Critically Endangered
                                                                                                     ‒   Subtropical eucalypt floodplain forest and woodland of the New South
                                                                                                         Wales North Coast and South East Queensland bioregions, Endangered
                                                                                                •   23 threatened flora and 63 threatened fauna species, of which the following
                                                                                                    species have been assessed with the potential to occur within the field
                                                                                                    surveyed extent:
                                                                                                     ‒   Lesser Swamp-orchid (Phaius australis), Endangered
                                                                                                     ‒   South-eastern Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami lathami),
                                                                                                         Vulnerable
                                                                                                     ‒   White-throated Needletail (Hirundapus caudacutus), Vulnerable
                                                                                                     ‒   Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus), Vulnerable
                                                                                                     ‒   Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), Endangered
                                                                                                     ‒   Wallum Sedge Frog (Drymomantis olongburensis) listed as Litoria
                                                                                                         olongburensis), Vulnerable (EPBC Act), Vulnerable (NC Act).




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