2022-02-08 Planning and Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                      8 FEBRUARY 2022


Attachment 2
 Summary of Council Grant Funded Projects Working Towards Noosa
              Environment Strategy 2019 Outcomes.
Community, Environment & Climate Change Project Grant Round 12
 Project   Amount                        Outcomes
            funded
  Protecting    $19,998.00   Local Pandanus population have been in decline due to dieback
     and                     caused by the arrival of a biosecurity threat from North Queensland.
  Restoring                  Using these grant funds, the applicant performed immediate mitigation
   Noosa’s                   works on effected trees in various locations on the coastal strip and
  Pandanus                   then continued with the projects main focus of long term preservation
 populations                 outcomes, namely; to assist natural regeneration and to perform
                             revegetation works at severely affected dieback sites. Awareness
 Delivered by
                             raising was also a key focus of this project with 9 workshops being
  Joel Fostin
                             held for both community and council staff.
 2020 Noosa       $3700      Despite wet weather and COVID restrictions, the event went ahead
   electric                  and attracted larger numbers of exhibitors than previous events, and
 vehicle expo                extremely strong participation and interest from the community. The
                             Minister for Transport and Main Roads, along with Noosa Mayor, MP
 Delivered by
                             Sandy Bolton and NJA President opened the event, and were able to
     Zero
                             experience personally the strong community interest and the range of
  Emissions
                             electric transport options now available in the market.
   Noosa



Community, Environment & Climate Change Project Grant Round 13
   Project       Amount                                    Outcomes
                 funded
   Urban          $5323      This is a long-term community engagement program that aims to
  Wildlife                   provide a resource to Noosa’s urban community members who have
  Gardens                    a desire to improve the habitat value of their backyards in turn
                             creating vegetated linkages and wildlife corridors. The program now
 Delivered by
                             has more than 100 members.
    NICA
                             The program objectives have been achieved by:
                             • Engaging with the wider urban community to raise awareness of the
                             natural environment and providing an opportunity for them to
                             contribute and be involved in a welcoming and low-key way on their
                             own properties.
                             • Encouraging the use of endemic native plant species in gardens
                             and turning their gardens into wildlife sanctuaries by putting up nest
                             boxes, providing water and having ‘messy’ sections providing wildlife
                             habitat.
                             • Providing information and assistance to program participants.
                             • Creating/enhancing urban wildlife corridors to assist wildlife
                             movement in response to climate change.
                             • Maximising linkages between dedicated conservation areas.
                             • Reducing the impact of invasive plant species by improving
                             vegetation structure and
                             providing for wildlife with nest hollows and food plants which can be
                             in short supply due to
                             competition between native and introduced animals,


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