Amended Ecological Assessment Report

habitat factors for that particular species. There may be essential habitat for more than one species on each lot, and areas of
Category A, Category B and Category C can be mapped as Essential Habitat.

Essential habitat is compiled from a combination of species habitat models and buffered species records. Regional
ecosystem is a mandatory essential habitat factor, unless otherwise stated. Essential habitat, for protected wildlife, means an
area of vegetation shown on the Regulated Vegetation Management Map -
       1) that has at least 3 essential habitat factors for the protected wildlife that must include any essential habitat factors
       that are stated as mandatory for the protected wildlife in the essential habitat database. Essential habitat factors are
       comprised of - regional ecosystem (mandatory for most species), vegetation community, altitude, soils, position in
       landscape; or
       2) in which the protected wildlife, at any stage of its life cycle, is located.


If there is no essential habitat mapping shown on the vegetation management supporting map for this lot, and there is no
table in the sections below, it confirms that there is no essential habitat on the lot.

Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C

Table 6: Essential habitat in Category A and/or Category B and/or Category C

 Label      Scientific       Common           NCA Status   Vegetation Community                                     Altitude       Soils                                   Position in

            Name             Name                                                                                                                                          Landscape


 686        Crinia tinnula   wallum froglet   V            Vegetation community is a mandatory essential habitat    Sea level to   Sandy and sandy-alluvial substrates.    None

                                                           factor for this species. Permanent to ephemeral acidic   150m.

                                                           (pH 4.3 - 5.2), soft freshwater in Melaleuca (e.g. M.

                                                           quinquenervia) swamps, sedgeland, wet and dry

                                                           heathland (e.g. Banksia robur, Xanthorrhoea) and

                                                           wallum (Banksia aemula shrubland/woodland) areas

                                                           coastal lowlands on sand or sandstone, occasionally in

                                                           adjacent open forest/woodland (e.g. Eucalyptus

                                                           racemosa, Corymbia citriodora) with heathy

                                                           understorey; known to persist in small remnants

                                                           (<10ha); may be found well away from water.


 609        Litoria          wallum           V            Vegetation community is a mandatory essential habitat    Sea level to   Sandy and alluvial substrates.          None

            freycineti       rocketfrog                    factor for this species. Freshwater acidic               200m.

                                                           swamps/lagoons (permanent or temporary still water)

                                                           dominated by sedges (e.g. Baumea and Eleocharis

                                                           spp.) in heathland (e.g. Banksia/Xanthorrhoea), wallum

                                                           (Banksia aemula shrubland/woodland) or Melaleuca

                                                           open forest (e.g. M. quinquenervia), and adjacent

                                                           Eucalyptus racemosa forest, also found around acidic

                                                           coastal lakes; on sand and sandstone; can be found

                                                           well away from water during non-breeding season.




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