Ecological Assessment Report

        Figure 7 – R. rubescens individual observed within the site


        Rhodamnia rubescens is listed as critically endangered under both the NC Act and the
        Commonwealth EPBC Act. An exemption for taking protected plants is given under Chapter 3, Part
        2, Division 4, Section 50 of the Nature Conservation (Plants) Regulation 2020 for clearing required
        to facilitate a fire break. The exemption applies to a person who takes a protected plant in an area
        if the person takes the plant by clearing for establishing or maintaining a necessary firebreak to
        protect infrastructure, other than a fence, road or vehicular track, if the maximum width of the
        firebreak is equal to the wider of the following:
        i)       1.5 times the height of the tallest vegetation next to the infrastructure
        ii)      20m.


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