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The Natural Environment
The Randwick Defence Site exists on the flat sandy plain of the Botany Basin. The Site is divided into two distinct areas in terms of its landscape and environmental significance:
- the land dominated by Defence infrastructure and buildings, incorporating the Development Precinct and the Defence retained area, and
- the land designated for the proposed for the Randwick Environmental Park.
The Development Precinct is of little or no ecological significance and has a low to very low conservation priority. It was dominated by the former Naval Store Sheds and concrete access roads. It contained only isolated cultivated trees and shrubs, as well as the mown grassed areas of the playing fields and verges.
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| Acacia longifolia subsp. sophorae (Coastal Wattle) is a member of the Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub - an endangered community found within the proposed Randwick Environmental Park. |
The proposed Randwick Environmental Park comprises a mixture of landforms including an ephemeral wetland, the gently rising sand dunes, sandstone outcrops and the playing fields. There is a vast range of vegetation within the parklands including ephemeral wetland vegetation; heath and scrub on sandstone, large areas of lantana weed infestations and Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS). It is estimated the proposed Randwick Environmental Park contains between 5% and 10% of all remaining ESBS, which is listed as an endangered ecological community under State and Commonwealth legislation. Specimens of Acacia Terminalis ssp terminalis are present within the Park as well
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