Flying-fox Camp Management Plan

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MidCoast Council Flying-fox Camp Management Plan

With regeneration of the Wingham Foreshore Recreation Reserve, there is a high likelihood of Grey-headed Flying-foxes and Black Flying-foxes roosting within the Wingham Foreshore Recreation Reserve, at least as a spill-over roost. This has previously been observed in February 2021, although the roosting carrying capacity would increase with regeneration. While Wingham Brush is not a target camp in this Plan, this regeneration work may benefit the subject camps by providing improved alternative roosting habitat that provides access to similar foraging resources in the eastern portion of the LGA (i.e. the nightly flying-fox foraging range from Wingham Brush overlaps four of the five subject camps; refer to Figure 23).

6.6.3

Past regeneration works

MidCoast Council began regenerating the Wingham Foreshore Recreation Reserve in 2001. In 2017 MidCoast Council received a three-year Environmental Trust Grant to regenerate lowland rainforest within the Reserve. The grant also aimed to diversify the number of plant species within the reserve to strengthen the flood tolerance of the Reserve whilst providing foraging and roosting habitat for flying-foxes.

6.6.4

Future regeneration works

The benefits of regenerating the Wingham Foreshore Recreation Reserve include: • complementing previous vegetation regeneration works • increasing the overall carrying capacity of the Wingham Brush camp • providing roosting habitat away from residential areas thereby reducing conflicts between humans and flying-foxes • reducing impacts on vegetation within Wingham Brush Nature Reserve from ongoing flying-fox roosting by providing additional roosting habitat • regenerating lowland rainforest TEC • increasing riverbank stability • other riparian vegetation benefits. Key steps to be implemented and considered as part of Action A08 prior to undertaking onground works include: • investigate and secure external grant funding to complement Council contributions • prepare a Vegetation Management Plan to guide onground works and takes into consideration current and future land uses to avoid future conflicts.

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Flying-fox expert definition

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page 162

Camp characteristics

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page 95

Standard measures to avoid impacts

9min
pages 158-161

Figure 30 Wingham Foreshore Recreation Reserve

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pages 81-82

Figure 22 Hawks Nest camp land zoning and proximate residences

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pages 48-50

Table 12 Planned action for potential impacts during management

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page 79

Table 11 Management Actions

20min
pages 67-73

Table 10 Threatened species known to occur at the subject camps based on BioNet records

2min
pages 65-66

Table 7 Stakeholder in the subject camps and this Plan

8min
pages 53-57

Table 9 Threatened and Protected Ecological Communities at the subject camps

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page 64

Table 8 Local Government Policy Documents and their Relevance to this Plan

10min
pages 58-63

Table 6 Hawks Nest camp land tenure and zoning

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page 47

Table 1 Known flying-fox camps in the MidCoast Council LGA (DoAWE 2021) 11 Table 2 Karloo Street Reserve camp land tenure and zoning

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page 18

Figure 18 Smiths Lake camp land zoning and proximate residences

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pages 41-43

Figure 14 Pacific Palms land zoning and proximate residences

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pages 35-36

Figure 6 Karloo Street Reserve land zoning and proximate residences

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pages 19-23

Table 5 Smiths Lake camp land tenure and zoning

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page 40

Figure 2 Regional MidCoast Council flying-fox camps

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pages 12-13

Table 4 Pacific Palms camp land tenure and zoning

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page 34

Table 3 Cocos Crescent Reserve land tenure and zoning

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pages 27-30
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