Attachment 5 - Documents referenced in conditions · OPW25/0012

Fauna Management Plan
3-7 Serenity Close, Noosa Heads

Action Task Responsibility | Timing

found to be contain wildlife, including any hollow- clearing

inhabited bearing tree, by any means or method that is activities
likely to:

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a) Injure or kill any wild animal; or,

b) Result in the unmanaged dispersal or
escape of arboreal fauna.

Notwithstanding above, any hollow-bearing

tree, stag or other tree that may previously

have contained wildlife, may be felled by any
method if:

a) The Fauna Spotter has determined
definitively that no wild animals are
present in the tree at the time of felling;
or,

b) The Fauna Spotter has removed all wild
animals from the tree immediately prior
to felling.

Methods which a Fauna Spotter may

approve and use for the felling of a hollow-

bearing tree containing, or likely to contain,
wild animals are limited to:

a) Segmental removal of the tree by a tree
surgeon, with hollow-bearing limbs
being checked by the Fauna Spotter and
cleared of fauna using a cherry picker;

b) Segmental removal of the tree by a tree
surgeon, with hollow-bearing limbs
plugged and lowered to the ground for
inspection by the Fauna Spotter;

c) Use of an excavator with vertical grab to
lower the main trunk (after removal of
lateral limbs); or,

d) Acombination of the above methods.

For smaller trees, or in circumstances where

access to a cherry picker is impossible, an

excavator with a vertical tree-grab
attachment may be used to lower a tree to
the ground for inspection by the Fauna

Spotter.

The Fauna Spotter must not authorise or

recommend the “bumping” of a hollow-

bearing tree with an excavator or other
machine as a method of dispersing wild
animals.

 

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