Trees, plants and animals
Noosa Council ensures the vegetation and animals in the shire are protected or managed by applying various programs and regulations:
- Council has developed a Tree Management on Public Land Policy for the protection, management, enhancement and maintenance of the trees on public land within the Noosa Shire
- regulate vegetation removal of plants and trees from private land
- management flying fox programs
- support numerous rescue and rehabilitation wildlife carers in the region to assist with injured wildlife
- Council has developed a Koala Conservation Plan(PDF) to help conserve the Shire's Koalas and protect their habitat
- undertakes a Biosecurity Surveillance Program on urban and rural properties across the Dhire in collaboration with landholders
- a Biodiversity Assessment Report has been prepared to identify and map biodiversity values, key threats, conservation initiative and priorities
- manage a range of programs for the control of pest animals throughout the Shire using trapping and targeted poison baiting programs
- Council encourages and supports community efforts to help conserve one of Noosa's - and Australia's - threated species...the Glossy Black smallest and rarest of the Black Cockatoos.
- strategic actions and priorities for focussed weed and pest management