2023-03-07 - P&E Agenda - Item 4 - Attachment 1 - Environmental Services - Threatened Fauna Recovery Road Map

This may be best achieved through ensuring species spread is determined in relation to the proportional coverage
of key habitat types across the Noosa LGA. Thus, Table 6 below, identifies the proportional spread of BVG types
across the key habitats. From here, the optimum spread of the Noosa Nine across the seven key habitat types has
been calculated.

Table 6: Optimum spread of the Noosa Nine across key habitat types
                                                       Proportional Spread of              Optimum Spread of the
                   Key Habitat Types                            BVGs                             Noosa Nine
                                                        (across key habitats)               (across key habitats)
 Rainforests and scrubs                                          19%                                  1
 Eucalypt forests and woodlands combined with
                                                                 48%                                   3
 Melaleuca woodlands
 Ecotones and combined habitats                                  N/A                                   1
 Freshwater waterways, wetlands and riparian zones               11%                                   1
 Heaths and other coastal communities                            15%                                   1
 Saltmarsh and mangroves                                          7%                                   1
 Coastal and Marine                                              N/A                                   1
                                                 Totals               100%                             9


6.4      Decision Matrix
A sample Decision Matrix template is presented as Attachment One. The Decision Matrix was used as a
stakeholder evaluation tool to score and rank the twenty-nine shortlisted fauna species in relation to their
conservation advice, the items critical to the delivery of Strategy 1.3 of the NES, and the species susceptibility to
the nine identified threatening processes (see Section 6.2).