2021-02-09 P&E Agenda - Item 6 - Attachment 1 - Draft Noosa Bushland Reserve Strategic Plan 2021-2026

                                                   5 = confirmed habitat or mapped essential               Significant species list (Appendix A   Noosa Shire Koala
                                                   habitat for V/E/M                                        & B of biodiversity assessment         Conservation Plan 2015-19
                                                                                                            report)
                                                                                                           Base layer
                                                                                                           HL&W – Essential Habitat Maps,
                                                                                                            EHP Essential Habitat Maps

                                                                                                   Reserves that hold species that are
                                                                                                   NT/V/E/M and were not identified in the
                                                                                                   Noosa Biodiversity Plan Dataset were given
                                                                                                   confirmed status and a scoring of 4 or 5.

                                                                                                   The presence of Acid frogs in reserves were
                                                                                                   given a score of 5. Under the EPBC Act only
                                                                                                   the Wallum Sedge frog is listed as
                                                                                                   vulnerable, though a national recovery plan
                                                                                                   has been devised for Wallum dependent
                                                                                                   frog species including the Cooloola
                                                                                                   sedgefrog, wallum rocketfrog and wallum
                                                                                                   froglet. All species are listed as vulnerable
                                                                                                   or endangered by the by the World
                                                                                                   Conservation Union (IUCN).
 Under represented        Reserves with under-     0 = medium to high preservation in Noosa &      Noosa Biodiversity Plan Dataset 2017            Link to the Noosa
 RE’s / CARR              represented              medium to high preservation in SEQ                                                              Biodiversity Conservation
                          vegetation               1 = low preservation in Noosa & medium to       Noosa_bio_plan_ph2_UnderRepREs_v2               Plan 2017
                          communities in the       high preservation in SEQ
                          protected area estate    2 = medium to high preservation in Noosa &      Based on the representation of RE’s in
                          have higher              low preservation in SEQ                         protected areas across the whole shire,
                          conservation value.      3 = low preservation in Noosa and low           including nature refuges and National Park.
                                                   preservation in SEQ
                                                                                                   RE code: RE v9.0 and field validation.
 For comparison / reference purposes – Additional criterion are included in the above process
 Noosa Biodiversity      High Biodiversity       0 to 20th percentile (biodiversity significance   Noosa Biodiversity Plan Dataset 2017            Link to the Noosa
 Plan Assessment         Score rank in           score of 0-3)                                                                                     Biodiversity Conservation
 Report Overall Value    Assessment Report       21st to 40th percentile (biodiversity             comb_values_241016_withRE_topo                  Plan 2017
 Ranking                 equates to high         significance score of 4-6)
                         biodiversity value.     41st to 60th percentile (biodiversity
                                                 significance score of 7-14)


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