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

10. Delivery
10.1     The Noosa Environment Strategy and this Road Map
This Road Map now places Council in a position where the appropriate scientific justification, planning and
stakeholder consultation are in place to implement Strategy 1.3 of the NES. Council’s foremost organisational
commitments to Strategy 1.3 are;
    ➢ ‘Significant implementation actions for the first 3 years’
    ➢ ‘Improve long-term survival for threatened species and ecological communities’


10.2     Typical approaches to threatened species conservation
The development of threatened species recovery plans are a scientifically accepted, and widely adopted method
to implement threatened species management and conservation (DES 2021). However, we acknowledge that for
some species, extensive work has already been undertaken by various stakeholders in threatened species
conservation. Therefore, Council’s approach under this Road Map will be to develop and implement Threatened
Species Action Plans for each of the Noosa Nine. As well as habitat conservation (planning and policy) at the
broad landscape level, some species will also require interventions at the site level to address threatening
processes such as climate change.

Where information, research or recommendations are lacking for a species, Council will ensure that works are
undertaken to determine the required information necessary to action threatened species recovery. An example
of this approach is demonstrated through the Noosa Council Koala Conservation Plan, produced in 2016.

For some species (koalas and flying-foxes), Council already has active monitoring and management programs in
place. However, these factors should not impact species temporal prioritisation over the ten-year life of the NES
and beyond. Funding resources and scope of management actions will be species specific, dependent upon existing
investments, species requirements and available funding streams.


10.2.1 Example - Noosa Council Koala Conservation Plan (2016)

As an example, Noosa Council is pro-actively ensuring local koala populations remain viable into the future
through the implementation of the Noosa Shire Koala Conservation Plan (2016). The twenty-seven-point action
plan works together with the community and various stakeholders to ensure koalas remain an essential
component of Noosa’s biodiversity. An example of an actioned koala habitat conservation initiative under the
Plan, is the Yurol Ringtail Project, which has resulted in 2,400ha of land transitioning to koala habitat and National
Park status over the next 10 years.


10.3     Actioning threatened species conservation and recovery under this Road
         Map
To deliver Strategy 1.3 of the NES, individual Threatened Species Recovery Action Plans will be developed and
implemented for the Noosa Nine. It is important to highlight that these works should not aim to replace existing
management strategies, rather consolidate monitoring and management efforts, and most importantly,