Environment Levy Acquisition Program
Doonan Creek Environmental Reserve
219 Doonan Bridge Road, Verrierdale
Size: 252 hectares
Purchased:
1 August 2013
Locality:
The property is
situated west of
Peregian Springs
with existing road
access via Doonan
Bridge Road.
Key Values
The acquisition of this property

enhances the Doonan Creek Bushland Conservation Reserve, Noosa National Park
and the nearby Doonan Wetland Nature Refuge

further protects one of the most important coastal habitat areas on the Sunshine Coast
known as the Noosa Maroochy wallum corridor

conserves endangered Coastal Lowland Subtropical Rainforest vegetation

may provide essential habitat for threatened frog species, koalas and ground parrot.
Opportunities

provides long term protection of site’s plants and animals

offers potential for rehabilitation and offset projects

presents recreational and ecotourism initiatives

provides low conflict flying fox habitat
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Habitat
Conservation estate
The property is mapped as a Core Habitat
Area in council’s Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010-20 and forms
part of the National Estate’s NoosaMaroochy wallum corridor.
The acquisition of this property achieves a
strategic outcome for biodiversity on the
Sunshine Coast. It increases the region’s
conservation estate through consolidation
of
Vegetation
The site contains approximately 190
hectares of remnant (native) and nonremnant vegetation. The remnant
vegetation includes endangered and of
concern regional ecosystems which
comprise of melaleuca and rainforest
vegetation.

council’s Doonan Creek Bushland
Conservation Reserve

Noosa National Park

Doonan Wetland Nature Refuge.
This rainforest vegetation is poorly
conserved on the Sunshine Coast. It is
identified by the Commonwealth
Government as a critically endangered
Coastal Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical
Australia ecological community.
Flora and fauna
It is likely the property has important flora
and fauna species which are listed under
State (Nature Conservation Act 1992) and
Commonwealth (Environment Protection
and Biodiversity Conservation Act)
legislation. These include

near-threatened small tree Hairy
Hazelwood (Symplocos harroldii)

endangered shrub Blackall Range
Myrtle (Lenwebbia sp. Blackall Range.
The acquired property (red outline) and adjacent
conservation reserves to the north and the Noosa National
Park to the south.
As part of the Doonan Creek wetland
system, the site’s vegetation contributes to
what may be the largest example of the
highly restricted and rare vegetation type
of Paperbark forest with rainforest
understory.
Current as at August 2013
The endangered Blackall Range Myrtle.