Fauna sensitive infrastructure investment opportunities on the Nebo to Eton stretch of the Peak Downs Highway, Central Queensland: A report to the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads

The Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) is currently constructing the Eton Range on the Peak Downs Highway approximately 40 km west of Mackay. The Federal Department of the Environment and Energy (DEE) declared the Eton Range Realignment Project a controlled action under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 due to the potential for significant impacts on koalas or koala habitat. The DEE required residual impacts, after TMR’s impact mitigation, to be offset through two years of research relating to koala ecology and conservation management around the Eton to Nebo stretch of the Peak Downs Highway, and following the study, koala sensitive infrastructure to be placed at strategic locations along this portion of the Peak Downs Highway. This report is an account of a survey to identify opportunities for the placement of koala sensitive infrastructure.