2015-11-16 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA                                                     16 NOVEMBER 2015


2.    Ecosure Recommendations

In its report, Ecosure has recommended against attempts to disperse the flying foxes and has
made nine (9) specific recommendations to mitigate the impacts of flying foxes. These
recommendations are summarised in Table 1 below:

Mitigation type                     Ecosure recommendation                 Discussion

1. General      mitigation    by    Encourage          residents      to   The      recommendation      is
   neighbouring landholders         implement actions on their land        supported     through   Council
   (Note: Council does not          including:                             providing fact sheets and
   manage protected fauna             Manage forage trees and            educational material on request
   such as flying foxes, or their       shrubs                             to residents.
   impacts, on private land).         Cover vehicles, pools and
                                        structures
                                      Install     double       glazed
                                        windows
                                      Avoid disturbance to flying
                                        foxes
                                      Turn off lighting that may be
                                        used for flying fox navigation
                                        (i.e. Bowls Club)
                                      Create      visual/sound/smell
                                        barriers


2. Monitoring                       Continue to monitor the flying         Supported
                                    foxes at Wallace Park and
                                    surrounds.

3. Education                        Continue    consultation       and     Continued consultation and
                                    education with residents.              education (e.g. fact sheets) with
                                                                           neighbouring landholders is
                                    Provide signage at the park and        supported.
                                    at the Bowls Club regarding low
                                    risk of infection.                     Provision of interpretive signs is
                                                                           supported, particularly with
                                                                           information on perceived health
                                                                           risks.


4. Buffer management                Create 10m buffers through             This      recommendation     is
                                    selective vegetation removal           supported. The creation of
                                    along high conflict areas.             buffers is also consistent with
                                                                           the Noosa Bushland Reserve
                                    Create additional buffer through       Fire Management Plan, which
                                    the use of deterrents.                 identified Wallace Park as
                                                                           medium to high fire hazard.
                                    Discuss with Noosa Hospital.
                                                                           The use of deterrents to
                                                                           increase buffers is still being
                                                                           trialled by other Councils. It is
                                                                           recommended that deterrent
                                                                           trials   be    investigated      for
                                                                           potential application in future.




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