2 Ecology Assessment Report Pre-clearance Survey Report Consultant/contractor and sub-contractor document review/approval 48DY69, 46DY69, 69DY97, 70DY97, 74DY99, 14DY67, 2RP840942, Warra-Kogan Road reserve, Lot no. Healey's Crossing Road reserve, Dalby-Kogan Road reserve Property name Various Disturbance Tracker no. DP139 Origin/Australia Pacific LNG document no. Q-4331-15-RP-001 Contractor internal reference no. (if 17BRI-7037 applicable) Submitted by (full name of author) Kate Brodie, Loren Appleby, Emma Blacklock Consultant/contractor N/A comments Pre-clearance Survey Report expiry N/A date Technical Revision Date Status Checked Q/A Review 1 12/12/2017 Issued for Use L Appleby L Appleby L Appleby 2 27/08/2018 Issued for Use Liz Fisher Liz Fisher Ailsa Kerswell pp. pp. pp. Template Ref: Q-LNG01-15-AQ-0225 Revision: 2 Approvals, Land and Stakeholder, Australia Pacific LNG Upstream Phase 1 Uncontrolled when printed unless issued and stamped controlled copy. Rev. 0 approved by (name and title) Signature Tim Collins Kainama Development (Stage 1) – Terrestrial Ecology Survey Report Prepared for Origin Energy th 27 August 2018 Kainama Stage 1 Terrestrial Ecology Assessment DOCUMENT TRACKING Item Detail Project Name Kainama Development Stage 1 Ecology Survey Project Number 17BRI-7037 Loren Appleby Project Manager 07 3239 9401 Level 5 / 12 Creek St Brisbane Qld 4000 Prepared by Kate Brodie, Loren Appleby, Emma Blacklock Reviewed by Liz Fisher, Alan House Approved by Ailsa Kerswell Status Final Version Number Revision 2 Last saved on 27th August 2018 Cover Photo Philotheca sporadica and Eucalyputs curtisii, Loren Appleby, 2017. This report should be cited as ‘Eco Logical Australia 2018. Kainama Stage 1 Development - Terrestrial Ecology Assessment. 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Template 29/9/2015 © ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD ii Kainama Stage 1 Terrestrial Ecology Assessment Contents Abbreviations........................................................................................................................... v 1 Introduction.................................................................................................................. 6 1.1 Background ................................................................................................................... 6 1.2 Project overview............................................................................................................. 6 2 Site Context.................................................................................................................. 8 3 Methods ..................................................................................................................... 10 3.1 Desktop assessment .................................................................................................... 10 3.1.1 Database searches ...................................................................................................... 10 3.1.2 Previous studies ........................................................................................................... 10 3.2 Field surveys ............................................................................................................... 11 3.2.1 Vegetation community surveys ...................................................................................... 11 3.2.2 Threatened flora and fauna species ............................................................................... 12 3.2.3 Weed and pest species assessment .............................................................................. 12 3.2.1 Wetlands, watercourses and drainage features .............................................................. 12 3.2.2 Disturbance ................................................................................................................. 13 3.2.3 Opportunistic sightings ................................................................................................. 13 3.3 Survey limitations ......................................................................................................... 13 4 Results and Discussion.............................................................................................. 14 4.1 Previous studies results ................................................................................................ 14 4.2 Commonwealth environmental matters .......................................................................... 16 4.2.1 EPBC Act threatened ecological communities ................................................................ 18 4.2.2 EPBC Act listed species ............................................................................................... 19 4.3 State environmental matters ......................................................................................... 24 4.3.1 Regional ecosystems ................................................................................................... 24 4.3.2 NC Act listed species.................................................................................................... 29 4.3.3 Weed and pest species ................................................................................................ 32 4.4 Wetlands, watercourses, drainage features .................................................................... 32 4.5 Disturbance ................................................................................................................. 32 4.6 Opportunistic sightings ................................................................................................. 32 5 Conclusions and Recommendations ......................................................................... 34 6 References ................................................................................................................. 37 Appendix A Figures ............................................................................................................... 39 © ECO LOGICAL AUSTRALIA PTY LTD iii Kainama Stage 1 Terrestrial Ecology Assessment Appendix B Desktop searche s ............................................................................................... 49 Appendix C Flora species list ................................................................................................ 50 Appendix D Fauna species list............................................................................................... 56 Appendix E Likelihood of occurrence tables ......................................................................... 59 List of figures Figure 1: Study area and location................................................................................................40 Figure 2: Survey sites.................................................................................................................41 Figure 3: Previous survey results ................................................................................................42 Figure 4: State Regional Ecosystems ..........................................................................................43 Figure 5: Ground Truthed Regional Ecosystems ..........................................................................44 Figure 6: Threat-listed (EPBC and NC Act) ..................................................................................45 Figure 7: Threatened Ecological Communities .............................................................................46 Figure 8: Weeds of National Significance (WoNS) and Restricted Matter Flora...............................47 Figure 9: Watercourses and Drainage Features ...........................................................................48 List of tables Table 1: Conditions of state and commonwealth approval relating to ecological s urveys .................. 6 Table 2: Site context ................................................................................................................... 8 Table 3: Summary of previous studies within and adjacent to study area .......................................15 Table 4: Commonwealth environmental matters - field results .......................................................16 Table 5: TEC likelihood of occurrence .........................................................................................18 Table 6: EPBC Act threatened and migratory species likelihood of occurrence ...............................19 Table 7: Ground-truthed regional ecosystems ..............................................................................24 Table 8: NC Act listed species likelihood of occurrence ................................................................29