Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program
Location
Hectares Purchase
Price
Purchase
Date
Strategic Land and Biodiversity Values
Coolum Creek Environmental Reserve
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Lot 3 & 4 RP27017
Burtons Rd
MAROOCHY
RIVER
36.41
$3.09M
2008/2009 
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Within Noosa – Maroochy Wallum Corridor
recognised on the National Estate
Contributes to waterway catchment values by
buffering Coolum Creek and Maroochy River
Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020
$1.45M successful Commonwealth Government
funding towards acquisition under the Caring for Our
Country National Reserve Initiative
London Creek Environmental Reserve (1)
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Lot 735 C311190
MacDonalds Rd
PEACHESTER
64.75
$1.625M
August
2010
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Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020
Links to past Environment Levy acquisition property
Forms part of a corridor of vegetation that connects
Mt Mellum to Booroobin/Upper Stanely via London
Creek
Annie Hehir Environmental Reserve
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Lot 4 RP840233
Annie Hehir Rd
PEACHESTER
45
$1.2M
May
2011
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Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020
Protects endangered and of concern remnant
vegetation
Protects a threatened ecological community
Borders major waterway, Stanley River and habitat
for significant flora and fauna species
Kirbys Road Environmental Reserve
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Lot 176 MCH798 &
Lot 178 MCH865
Kirbys Rd
OBI OBI
213.36
$2M
August
2011
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Secures a strategic link within the landscape between
existing protected areas - Maleny and Kondilila
National Park
Core Habitat Area identified by Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020
Within the Obi Obi sub-catchment with natural
watercourses traversing the sites
Racemosa Environmental Reserve
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Lot 456 CG2857
Hardwood
Rd
LANDSBOROUGH
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101.77
$950K
December
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2011
Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program
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Core Habitat Area identified by Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020
Contributes to the protection of Mellum Creek
catchment values
Representative coastal lowland remnant vegetation
cleared for pine plantation and development
Variety of habitats including wetlands, heathlands and
Scribbly Gum forest with extensive hollow formation
Location
Hectares Purchase
Price
Purchase
Date
Strategic Land and Biodiversity Values
Triunia Environmental Reserve
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Lot 5 & 8
RP269855
Curruthers Rd
WEST WOOMBYE
46.37
March
2012
$600K
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Core Habitat mapped by the Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010 – 2020
Adjoins the previously acquired Triunia Environment
Levy Conservation Area
Contiguous with Truinia National Park and Truinia
Bushland Conservation Reserve
London Creek Environmental Reserve (2)

Part of Lot 12
SP142627
MacDonalds Rd,
PEACHESTER
40.15
March
2012
$900K
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Core Habitat Area as identified by Sunshine Coast
Biodiversity Strategy 2010-2020
Links to past Environment Levy acquisition property
Forms part of a corridor of remnant vegetation that
connects Mt Mellum to Booroobin / Upper Stanely via
London Creek
Contributes to the protection of London Creek
catchment values
Mt Ninderry Environmental Reserve
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Lot 367CG286
Mountain View
Court. NINDERRY
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60.26
August
2013
2.6M
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Consolidates the Mt Ninderry Bushland Conservation
Reserve
Both indigenous and community significance
Forms part of the regions third largest core habitat
area which includes the National Estates NoosaMaroochy Wallum Corridor.
Identified as potential koala bushland habitat
Contributes to the protection of rainforest and
eucalypt communities that are considered to be
threatened and poorly conserved on the coast.
Doonan Creek Environmental Reserve
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LOT 436CG491
Doonan Bridge Rd,
VERRIERDALE
252.70
2M
August
2013
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Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program
Assists to protect the National Estates NoosaMaroochy Wallum Corridor which is one of the most
important habitat areas on the coast.
Contains poorly conserved and endangered
vegetation communities including the Commonwealth
listed coastal lowland rainforest ecological
community.
Property is likely to provide essential habitat for
threatened species.
Property consolidates Council’s Doonan Creek
Bushland Conservation Reserve and Noosa National
Park as well as nearby Doonan Wetland
Conservation Area.
Location
Hectares Purchase
Price
Purchase
Date
Strategic Land and Biodiversity Values
Tuan Environmental Reserve
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Chinaman Creek
Rd, CAMBROON
27.32
$300K
Sept 2013
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‘Tuan’ is the common name for phascogale which is
an iconic species found on the reserve.
Assists to consolidate the region’s largest core habitat
area by expanding on Maleny National Park.
Contains poorly conserved melaleuca, eucalypt and
rainforest communities including the critically
endangered lowland rainforest
Provides habitat for a very high diversity of mammal
species including brush-tailed phascogale, bettong,
black-breasted button quail and glossy black
cockatoo.
Recognised as a koala habitat Nature Refuge under
the State government program.
Tall Gums Environmental Reserve
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Lot 97 SP263994
Wilsons Rd,
ILKLEY
59.51
$890K
November
2013
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Environment Levy Land Acquisition Program
Expands the protected area provided by the adjacent
council reserves of Tanawha Tall Gums Nature
Refuge and the Maroochy Bushland Botanic Garden.
Property contains threatened rainforest and eucalypt
vegetation communities which are not adequately
protected on the coast.
Contains the headwaters of Mountain Creek
Contributes to a corridor stretching from the range to
the coast which is important for wildlife movement
Area identified as koala bushland habitat by the State
government.