2022-02-08 Planning and Environment Committee Meeting Agenda

PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                     8 FEBRUARY 2022


                             • Reducing human/wildlife conflict by increasing understanding and
                             awareness of wildlife.
Noosa Native    $6818.00     The purpose of www.noosasnativeplants.com.au to demystify and
   Plants                    raise awareness of local native plants. The website is an excellent
 Website re-                 reference and freely available on the internet.
development.
                             This grant funding was used for the migration of the data and
 Delivered by                functionality of the old Noosa's Native Plants website onto a modern
    NICA                     platform with improved access via smart phones, tablets and
                             personal computers. It also created the ability to regularly update the
                             database with basic botanical information about each species, plus
                             cultural uses of the plants by aboriginal people and early European
                             settlers and now includes landscaping advice.



Community, Environment & Climate Change Project Grant Round 15
   Project      Amount                                    Outcomes
                funded
A Line in The   11,670.00    The ALITS program represents a unique collaboration between NICA
    Sand                     and OzFish (Noosa), in partnership with Noosa Council, to deliver a
                             cost-effective volunteer-led and innovative community awareness
 Delivered By
                             and infrastructure renewal initiative designed to influence recreational
  NICA and
                             fishing behaviours and enhance environmental outcomes in the
   OzFish
                             Noosa Shire. The ALITS program is intended to a) replace, and
                             where appropriate re-site, the approximately 30 remaining fishing line
                             recovery bins (FLRBs) installed at permanent sites along the length
                             of the Noosa River in 2004-2010 (see FLRB Audit attached) with new
                             purpose built, and aesthetically appealing FLRBs, styled to align to
                             Noosa’s unique branding; and b) design and project community
                             awareness materials (both on and offline including embedded on
                             FLRBs and in selected fishing retailers), to improve recreational
                             fishing waste disposal behaviours; c) advocate for greater recycling
                             of collected fishing waste (where possible) as emerging processes
                             develop; and d) monitor behaviours and where necessary re-design
                             awareness and project efforts.
                             This project combines NICA’s and OzFish’s prior and broad
                             experience with FLRB installations and awareness initiatives,
                             extensive on-ground volunteer force and influence within the broader
                             recreational fishing community (retailers, operators, residents and
                             visitors).
                             This grant is ongoing and will be reviewed at acquittal time in June
                             2022 and March 2023.
 Enter The      $14,977.00   The Enter the Flyosphere (ETF) Project represents Stage 3 of NICA’s
 Flyosphere                  Migratory Shorebird Conservation Roadmap (Project Plan available
                             upon request) intended to improve the long-term survival of
 Delivered by
                             threatened migratory (and resident) shorebirds species in the Noosa
    NICA
                             River. The Roadmap represents a best-in-class citizen-led and
                             research-guided collaboration between stakeholders including NICA,
                             Noosa Council, HLW, QPWS and Tourism Noosa. The ETF project
                             comprises several actions intended to better understand/enhance
                             community interactions with shorebirds (surveys x10), to cost-
                             effectively renew dilapidated infrastructure (telescope Noosa Spit)
                             and to host innovative community awareness products (interpretive
                             signage and film). This grant is ongoing and will be reviewed at
                             acquittal time in June 2022 and March 2023.
  Engaging      $23,620.00   This project aims to engage the local community in restoration and
   Local                     connection of habitat in the Noosa Council Region and is based on

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