SCC Fact Sheet s1

Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program

Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program Location Hectares Purchase Purchase Strategic Land and Biodiversity Values Price Date Coolum Creek Environmental Reserve  Within Noosa – Maroochy Wallum Corridor recognised on the National Estate Lot 3 & 4 RP27017  Contributes to waterway catchment values by buffering Coolum Creek and Maroochy River Burtons Rd 36.41 $3.09M 2008/2009  Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast MAROOCHY Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020 RIVER  $1.45M successful Commonwealth Government funding towards acquisition under the Caring for Our Country National Reserve Initiative London Creek Environmental Reserve (1)  Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast Lot 735 C311190 Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020 August  Links to past Environment Levy acquisition property 64.75 $1.625M MacDonalds Rd 2010  Forms part of a corridor of vegetation that connects PEACHESTER Mt Mellum to Booroobin/Upper Stanely via London Creek Annie Hehir Environmental Reserve  Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020 Lot 4 RP840233  Protects endangered and of concern remnant May Annie Hehir Rd 45 $1.2M vegetation 2011 PEACHESTER  Protects a threatened ecological community  Borders major waterway, Stanley River and habitat for significant flora and fauna species Kirbys Road Environmental Reserve  Secures a strategic link within the landscape between existing protected areas - Maleny and Kondilila Lot 176 MCH798 & National Park Lot 178 MCH865 August 213.36 $2M  Core Habitat Area identified by Sunshine Coast Kirbys Rd 2011 Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020 OBI OBI  Within the Obi Obi sub-catchment with natural watercourses traversing the sites Racemosa Environmental Reserve  Core Habitat Area identified by Sunshine Coast Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020 Lot 456 CG2857  Contributes to the protection of Mellum Creek Hardwood catchment values 101.77 $950K December Rd 2011  Representative coastal lowland remnant vegetation LANDSBOROUGH cleared for pine plantation and development  Variety of habitats including wetlands, heathlands and Scribbly Gum forest with extensive hollow formation Location Hectares Purchase Purchase Strategic Land and Biodiversity Values Price Date Triunia Environmental Reserve Lot 5 & 8  Core Habitat mapped by the Sunshine Coast RP269855 Biodiversity Strategy 2010 – 2020 March  Adjoins the previously acquired Triunia Environment 46.37 Curruthers Rd $600K 2012 Levy Conservation Area WEST WOOMBYE  Contiguous with Truinia National Park and Truinia Bushland Conservation Reserve London Creek Environmental Reserve (2)  Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020 Part of Lot 12  Links to past Environment Levy acquisition property SP142627 March  Forms part of a corridor of remnant vegetation that 40.15 $900K MacDonalds Rd, 2012 connects Mt Mellum to Booroobin / Upper Stanely via PEACHESTER London Creek  Contributes to the protection of London Creek catchment values Mt Ninderry Environmental Reserve Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program  Consolidates the Mt Ninderry Bushland Conservation Reserve  Both indigenous and community significance  Forms part of the regions third largest core habitat Lot 367CG286 Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program