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At a 2014 SEQ Catchments Community roundtable, attendees
identified Coochiemudlo Island as ‘the jewel in the crown of Redland
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City’ because of its golden beaches and natural bushland. While
recognising the attraction the island’s beauty held for people, the
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participants also acknowledged the pressures on the landscape.
This is consistent with advice from the Coastal Management Plan of
the Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, that direct
and indirect pressures on coastal environments will possibly
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undermine the very values that draw people to the coast.
Coochiemudlo’s Emerald Fringe continues to encapsulate everything
we think of as a natural coastal Queensland environment, but with
increasing coastal development and the associated loss of coastal
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vegetation, such natural habitats are becoming rare.

50 SEQ Catchments, Planning for our future wellbeing, 12 March 2014
http://www.seqcatchments.com.au/news/strong-voice-from-redland-
community (accessed 20 July 2017). See also Friend and Associates Land
Management Plan .
51 SEQ Catchments, Planning for our future.
52 Department of Environment and Heritage Protection Coastal Management
Plan 2013, p. 3 ‘Approximately 80% of Queenslanders live on the coast. In
addition it draws significant numbers of visitors that serves to increase
demand for access infrastructure and accommodation. This concentrated
urbanisation creates pressures (both directly and indirectly) on the coastal
environment. Together with an increase in industrial development, including
port and marine infrastructure on the coast, this has resulted in habitat loss,
degradation and fragmentation and subsequent loss of biodiversity. Where
not sensitively managed, these pressures may undermine the very values
which draw such visitation numbers and development in the first place.’
53 C. Hunt ‘Planning changes to accelerate Queensland coast development’,
The Conversation, 17 October 2012
https://theconversation.com/planning-changes-to-accelerate-queensland-
coast-development-10125 Accessed 23 May 2017