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Appendix C Wineglass Bay Lookout Ecological Assessment Environmental Consulting Options Tasmania ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED NEW ELEVATED VIEWING PLATFORM AND LOOP TRACK, WINEGLASS BAY LOOKOUT, FREYCINET NATIONAL PARK, TASMANIA Environmental Consulting Options Tasmania (ECOtas) for Parks & Wildlife Service 27 May 2019 Mark Wapstra ABN 83 464 107 291 28 Suncrest Avenue email: [email protected] phone: (03) 62 283 220 Lenah Valley, TAS 7008 web: www.ecotas.com.au mobile: 0407 008 685 ECOtas…providing options in environmental consulting ECOtas…providing options in environmental consulting CITATION This report can be cited as: ECOtas (2019). Ecological Assessment of Proposed New Elevated Viewing Platform and Loop Track, Wineglass Bay Lookout, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania. Report by Environmental Consulting Options Tasmania (ECOtas) for Parks & Wildlife Service, 27 May 2019. AUTHORSHIP Field assessment: Mark Wapstra Report production: Mark Wapstra Habitat and vegetation mapping: Mark Wapstra Base data for mapping: TheList, Parks & Wildlife Service Digital and aerial photography: Mark Wapstra, GoogleEarth, TheList ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Laura Spikula (Parks & Wildlife Service) provided background information on the project. Steve Heggie (Parks & Wildlife Service) provided on-site guidance. COVER ILLUSTRATIONS Main image: View of Wineglass Bay from near existing lookout. Insets: (bottom left) Epacris barbata (bearded heath – found within and close to the proposed project site; (right) Pterostylis grandiflora (superb greenhood) – confirmed from outside the proposed project site. Please note: the blank pages in this document are deliberate to facilitate double-sided printing. Ecological Assessment of Proposed New Elevated Viewing Platform and Loop Track, Freycinet NP i ECOtas…providing options in environmental consulting Ecological Assessment of Proposed New Elevated Viewing Platform and Loop Track, Freycinet NP ii ECOtas…providing options in environmental consulting CONTENTS SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................... 1 PURPOSE, SCOPE, LIMITATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE SURVEY .................................. 5 Purpose .................................................................................................................... 5 Scope ....................................................................................................................... 5 Limitations ................................................................................................................ 5 Qualifications ............................................................................................................. 6 Permit....................................................................................................................... 6 PROJECT AREA .................................................................................................................. 6 PROPOSAL ...................................................................................................................... 11 METHODS ....................................................................................................................... 11 Nomenclature .......................................................................................................... 11 Preliminary investigation ........................................................................................... 11 Field assessment ...................................................................................................... 12 Botanical survey – vegetation classification ................................................................. 12 Botanical survey – threatened flora ............................................................................ 12 Zoological survey – general ....................................................................................... 13 Declared and environmental weeds ............................................................................ 13 Plant and animal disease ........................................................................................... 13 FINDINGS ....................................................................................................................... 13 Vegetation types ...................................................................................................... 13 Comments on TASVEG mapping ............................................................................ 13 Vegetation types recorded as part of the present study ............................................ 14 Plant species............................................................................................................ 16 General information ............................................................................................. 16 Threatened flora species recorded from project area ................................................ 16 Threatened flora species potentially present (database analysis) ............................... 26 Fauna species .......................................................................................................... 26 Threatened fauna species known from the project area ............................................ 26 Threatened fauna species potentially present (database analysis) ............................. 28 Other ecological values ............................................................................................. 28 Weed species ...................................................................................................... 28 Rootrot pathogen, Phytophthora cinnamomi ........................................................... 29 Myrtle wilt .......................................................................................................... 31 Myrtle rust ......................................................................................................... 31 Chytrid fungus and other freshwater pathogens ...................................................... 31 Additional “Matters of National Environmental Significance” ...................................... 31 Ecological Assessment of Proposed New Elevated Viewing Platform and Loop Track, Freycinet NP iii ECOtas…providing options in environmental consulting DISCUSSION ................................................................................................................... 32 Summary of key findings ........................................................................................... 32 Legislative and policy implications .............................................................................. 33 Recommendations .................................................................................................... 40 REFERENCES ................................................................................................................... 42 APPENDIX A. Vegetation community structure and composition ............................................. 44 APPENDIX B. Vascular plant species recorded from project area ............................................ 47 APPENDIX C. Analysis of database records of threatened flora ............................................... 49 APPENDIX D. Analysis of database records of threatened fauna ............................................. 56 APPENDIX E. DPIPWE’s Natural Values Atlas report for project area ....................................... 61 APPENDIX F. Forest Practices Authority’s Biodiversity Values Atlas report for project area ......... 61 APPENDIX G. CofA’s Protected Matters report for project area ............................................... 61 ATTACHMENT .................................................................................................................. 61 Ecological Assessment of Proposed New Elevated Viewing Platform and Loop Track, Freycinet NP iv ECOtas…providing options in environmental consulting SUMMARY General The Parks & Wildlife Service engaged Environmental Consulting Options Tasmania (ECOtas) to undertake an assessment of the ecological values associated with a proposed new elevated viewing platform and loop track at the Wineglass Bay Lookout, Freycinet National Park, eastern Tasmania, primarily to ensure that the requirements of the identified ecological values are appropriately taken into account during further project planning under local, State and Commonwealth government approval protocols. The project area was assessed by Mark Wapstra on 17 May 2019. Summary of key findings Threatened flora • One plant species listed as threatened (Endangered) on the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBCA) was detected from the proposed project area; as follows: – Epacris barbata (bearded heath). • One plant species listed as threatened (endangered) on the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 (TSPA) was detected from the project area, as follows: – Epacris barbata (bearded heath). • One plant species listed as threatened (rare) on the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 (TSPA) was detected from close to the project area, as follows: – Pterostylis grandiflora (superb greenhood). • It is recommended that a solution be sought to avoid the need to “take” individuals of Epacris barbata. No disturbance to individuals of Pterostylis grandiflora is anticipated. A permit will be required under Section 51 of the Tasmanian Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 to take individuals of Epacris barbata if the individuals
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