Wild Nature: Walking Australia’s South East Forests
Author: John Blay
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing 2020
Reviewer: Samantha Newton
Author: NPA NSW
Book Review: Call of the Reed Warbler
A new agriculture, a new earth, by Charles Massy
Group review by NPA book group
The NPA book group had a very interesting discussion of this rich book on February 8. Members brought different perspectives. Some had farm backgrounds but most of us had not. One member had a family connection to the author. Another has a son considering farming as a career. A third found it valuable to read the book twice.
Wilderness Provides Some of the Magic in Life
Lying on a large flat rock in the middle of Washpool Creek,
in a new national park, was a magic moment.
The sky is clear.
Nature Kids: The magic of nature and technology
Hear that sound … ?
Cicadas are magical insects that provide a familiar loud soundtrack to summer. But how much do you know about these amazing animals?
Protections for Kosciuszko National Park stripped away for Snowy 2.0
The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) has expressed outrage that the NSW Government plans to overturn the Plan of Management for Kosciuszko National Park. A newly exhibited amendment to the Plan of Management exempts Snowy 2.0 from the legal requirement that new electricity transmission circuits must be placed underground rather than on environmentally damaging overhead towers1.
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The Snowy 2.0 electricity connection must go underground
Twenty four organisations and fifty expert engineers, scientists, environmentalists, academics and economists, are calling on Planning Minister Rob Stokes and Environment Minister Matt Kean to avoid further damage to Kosciuszko National Park by putting the electricity transmission connection for Snowy 2.0 underground.
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