How does the State Planning Policy for Coastal Protection protect coastal habitat and biodiversity?
The Queensland Coastal Plan aims to conserve coastal biodiversity by identifying significant areas requiring protection and management. The Queensland Coastal Plan uses the concept of ‘areas of ecological significance’ to spatially identify biodiversity values in the coastal zone. This methodology generates a map showing two categories of significance: areas of high ecological significance (HES) and areas of general ecological significance (GES). The Queensland Coastal Plan seeks to retain the ecological values of areas of high ecological significance, while minimising the impacts of development on areas of general ecological significance and other ecological values that cannot be mapped, such as the habitat of highly mobile species and roosting and nesting sites. Due to the lack of marine ecosystem spatial information and data, marine ecological values have not been included within the AES mapping. To protect marine ecological values from adverse impacts associated with coastal develo
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