MCU14/0056 - Attachment I -Environmental Report

                environmental management
              ecological assessment report

         Species Details                   Legislation                       Occurrence
                                                                                                                                Habitat Features
                                                                           Likely
                      Common                                                        Possible   Unlikely
 Scientific Name                   NCA Listing     EPBC Act    Confirmed     to
                       Name                                                         to Occur   To Occur
                                                                           Occur
                                                                                                          include those with rank emergent tussocks of grass,
                                                                                                          sedges, rushes or reeds, or samphire; often with scattered
                                                                                                          clumps of lignum Muehlenbeckia or canegrass or
                                                                                                          sometimes tea-tree (Melaleuca). Widely distributed
                                                                                                          throughout Queensland.
                                                                                                          This species could potentially occur on-site.
                                                                                                          Restricted to rainforests and forests. They prefer drier low
                                                                                                          closed forests, particularly semi-evergreen vine thickets.
                       Black-                                                                             Low microphyll vine forests, araucarian microphyll vine
                                                                                                          forest and araucarian notophyll vine forest. Also recorded
    Turnix
 melanogaster
                      breasted
                      Button-
                                                  Vulnerable                                     
        in low, dense acacia thickets and in littoral area in
                        quail                                                                             vegetation behind sand dunes.
                                                                                                          This species is unlikely to occur due to lack of suitable
                                                                                                          habitat.
AMPHIBIANS
     Litoria         Cascade       Vulnerable                                                             This species occurs in shaded rainforest gullies and closed
  pearsoniana        Treefrog                                                                             forest in association with fast-flowing rocky streams. It
                                                                                                          hides amongst rocks and thick vegetation, or is active at
                                                                                                 
        night on the ground and on low shrubs bordering
                                                                                                          streams. In winter adults form aggregations under rocks.
                                                                                                          This species is unlikely to occur due to lack of suitable
                                                                                                          habitat.
Litoria freycineti   Wallum        Vulnerable                                                             This species occupies a variety of habitats, but is most
                     Rocket Frog                                                                          commonly seen in the vicinity of temporary coastal
                                                                                                          swamps (wallum). These areas typically have low nutrient
                                                                                                          soils and heath, sedge land, Melaleuca swamp or Banksia
                                                                                                 
        woodland vegetation. It is mostly a nocturnal species, and
                                                                                                          is a spring and summer breeder.
                                                                                                          This species is unlikely to occur due to lack of suitable
                                                                                                          habitat.
    Litoria          Green         Near                                                                   Green-thighed Frogs occur in a range of habitats from
 brevipalmata        Thighed       Threatened                                                             rainforest and moist eucalypt forest to dry eucalypt forest
                     Frog                                                                        
        and heath, typically in areas where surface water gathers
                                                                                                          after rain. It prefers wetter forests in the south of its range,
                                                                                                          but extends into drier forests in northern NSW and
   saunders havill group
age 63