MCU14/0056 - Attachment I -Environmental Report

                environmental management
              ecological assessment report



3. Legislation, Policy and Planning
   Instruments
3.1.       Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
The Australian Government’s key piece of environmental legislation is the Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The EPBC Act aims to protect and manage matters of environmental significance
which include nationally and internationally important flora, fauna, ecological communities and heritage places.

A Protected Matters Search for the allotments was undertaken through the Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation Online Protected Matters Search Tool (PMST). The search provides a list of wetlands of
international significance, threatened ecological communities and threatened species which have the potential to
be temporarily or permanently located within the general vicinity of the development site. Table 1 lists a
summary of the search results relevant to the site. The complete results of this search are included in Appendix B.

Table 1:                     EPBC Protected Matters Search Results

 Wetlands of International Significance

 Great Sandy Strait (Upstream from Ramsar)

 Threatened Ecological Communities

 Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia (Critically Endangered) : community may occur

 Threatened Species

 Scientific Name                             Common Name                                     Status

 Birds

 Anthochaera phrygia                         Regent Honeyeater                               Endangered

 Botaurus poiciloptilus                      Australasian Bittern                            Endangered

 Cyclopsitta diophthalma coxeni              Coxen's Fig-Parrot                              Endangered

 Dasyornis brachypterus                      Eastern Bristlebird                             Endangered

 Erythrotriorchis radiatus                   Red Goshawk                                     Vulnerable

 Geophaps scripta scripta                    Squatter Pigeon (southern)                      Vulnerable

 Lathamus discolor                           Swift Parrot                                    Endangered

 Poephila cincta cincta                      Black-throated Finch (southern)                 Endangered

 Rostratula australis                        Australian Painted Snipe                        Endangered

 Turnix melanogaster                         Black-breasted Button-quail                     Vulnerable




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