Wetland Habitat Protection?

The subject land is a typical wetland habitat and this is quite apparent by examination of the native flora and fauna present on and adjacent to the subject land. Photographic evidence, local knowledge and definitions enunciated within various Commonwealth and State Government Acts and Policies support our claims.

Some of these are;

. QLD Dept. of Local Government & Planning, Planning Advice ( pg. 1 )

• "Item number 10 of Schedule 2, Regulation 16 of the Local Government ( Planning &

Environment ) Act states;

Wetland, whether fresh, brackish or marine, including coral reefs, mangrove areas,

mudflats, sand flats, sandy beaches, sea grass beds, and tidal marshes.

 

If a proposed development is considered to be located on, or having a common boundary with,

land containing a wetland, the proposal is a designated development which triggers the

impact assessment process pursuant to Section 8.2 of the Act".

. RAMSAR

• "areas of marsh, fen, peatland, or water, whether natural or artificial, permanent or

temporary, with water that is static or flowing, fresh, brackish, or salt, including areas of

marine water, the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres."

 

. Environmental Protection ( Water ) Policy 1997, Schedule 2

• "wetland means an area of permanent or periodic inundation, whether natural or artificial,

static or flowing, fresh, brackish, or saline, and includes an area of marine water the depth

of which at low tide is less than 6m."

. Coastal Protection and Management Act. S. 10.

. Strategy for the Conservation and Management of Queensland Wetlands.

• Wetlands are defined as: areas of permanent or periodic/intermittent inundation,

whether natural or artificial, static or flowing, fresh, brackish or salt, including

area of marine water the depth of which at low tide does not exceed six metres."

. Wetlands Policy of the Commonwealth Government of Australia, Jan 1997.

• "wetland is the general and more modern name for what we call swamps, billabongs,

lakes, saltmarshes, mudflats and mangroves. Wetlands are simply areas that have

acquired special characteristics from being wet on a regular or semi-regular basis."

. Redland Shire Council, Local Planning Policy, Waterways, Wetlands & Coastal Zone

• "Wetlands" are areas, conceptually between terrestrial and aquatic environments, that

are subject to either freshwater or salt water inundation with sufficient frequency to

support aquatic macrophytes or similar vegetation. Tidal wetlands are characterised by

mangrove and saltmarsh while Melaleuca spp and sedges are generally associated with

freshwater wetlands. Wetlands with occasional inundation can be either regular ( seasonal )

or periodic ( ephemeral or temporary ).

Mr Simon Baltais

Secretary

Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland Bayside Branch ( Qld ) Inc

PO Box 427 Capalaba Qld 4157

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