An on-ground factual ecological assessment within the Upper Mundic Gully TSF footprint was
undertaken by GHD during April 2025. The methodologies for these both the desktop and field
assessments are summarised in Section 5.7.1 and Section 5.7.2 whilst GHD’s Ecological Assessment
Report for Upper Mundic Gully TSF, that includes results of the desktop assessment in further detail, is
provided in Appendix E.
Ecological surveys conducted by GHD from the 7 th – 9 th of April 2025 involved a combination of
opportunistic searches for flora and fauna, and/or traces of fauna, flora and habitat assessments and
active searches. In depth methodologies and survey effort are discussed in Sections 2.3.2 and 4.2
respectively of GHD’s Ecological assessment report (Appendix E). The results of the ecological surveys
are discussed in Sections 4.3 and 4.4 of the same report for flora and fauna respectively.
Grant Paterson (Managing Director and Principal Ecologist of GAP Tree Change Pty Ltd, contracted by
WTS) and Lachlan McQuire (Principal Environmental Advisor at WTS) conducted a site visit on 13 June
2025 with the aim of verifying GHD’s ecological observations and subsequently reviewing/revising their
conclusions following analysis of the project area context. Grant Paterson has over 30 years’ botanical
experience working both in government and in industry and is a suitably qualified person for the
purposes of undertaking protected plant surveys.
During the site visit an inspection of an adjoining property located off the mining tenure was undertaken
to determine the suitability of translocating Cycas megacarpa and Grevillea hockingsii . The inspection
findings were that this location was suitable for translocation based on the following attributes:
• There was an existing population of mature Cycas megacapra and Grevillea hockingsii .
identified. Translocating the species would be adding to an already existing population;
• There is an established methodology for translocating Cycas megacapra and Grevillea
hockingsii . that is repeatable and undertaken in a matter that preserves the integrity of the
species; and
• Locations are accessible through the presence of well established access tracks.
This information was used to inform development of the Cycas megacapra management plan that is
provided in Appendix J and a Grevillea hockingsii . Management plan provided in Appendix K.
An additional in-depth fauna survey was undertaken by WTS from 27 th – 29 th August and 15 th -19 th
September 2025 involving a combination of bird surveys, active searches, nocturnal searches and call
playbacks, camera trapping and bat detectors. The methodologies and results are discussed in depth
in the Fauna Survey Report (Appendix M).
5.7.3.1. Conservation significant flora
Two conservation significant flora species were confirmed present within the project area ( Grevillea
hockingsii and Cycas megacarpa ).
G. hockingsii is listed as vulnerable under the NC Act (Queensland) but not listed under the EPBC Act
(Commonwealth). A population of approximately 67 individuals was confirmed along the northern
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