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Fragile Western Landscapes – getting it right this time?

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2017November 28, 2017in Summer 2017Leave a comment

^{Dr Peter Mitchell OAM, Environmental scientist}

As a participant in the recent forum ‘Safeguarding our Crown Lands’ organized by the Central Western Environment Council a sense of déjà vu set in when I considered the Western Division. This covers 40% of the State and is held in Crown leases. Mining generates twice as much money as agriculture and about as much as tourism. More money is spent in Government services than agriculture produces, and grazing generates the least benefit for the smallest number of families although it utilises the greatest area of land.

The Legacy of Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2017November 27, 2017in Summer 20171 Comment

^{Janine Kitson, Vice President Colong Foundation for Wilderness}
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is famed for her ground breaking ecological warnings on the long-term dangers of pesticides – particularly DDT – for birds, wildlife, and humans. Her brilliance was her calm scientific eloquence that described the beauty of the natural world and her reverence for its complex ecological interrelationships. She loved the sea and understood its rhythms stretching back into millennia.

Mungo National Park

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2017April 12, 2018in Summer 2017Leave a comment

^{David Noble, Nature photographer}

Mungo National Park, located within the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area, features stunning, often stark, landscapes. It is the land of the Ngyiampaa, Mutthi Mutthi and Southern Paakantyi Aboriginal people who have lived here for millennia. In August 2016, NPA member David Noble visited Mungo NP with friend David Hufton and recorded their experiences on his blog.

Gardens of Stone – the other Blue Mountains

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2017November 28, 2017in Summer 2017Leave a comment

^{Janine Kitson, Vice President, Colong Foundation for Wilderness}

Spectacular rock formations, ever changing with the light, ragged outlines towering against the endless Australian sky.

Branch Profile – Far South Coast

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2017November 28, 2017in Branch News, Far South Coast, Nature NSW, Summer 2017Leave a comment

^{Gabrielle Taysom, National Parks Association of NSW Far South Coast Branch}
The Far South Coast Branch of the National Parks Association was established around 1997, most of the Branch’s original members having been involved in the 12 year campaign to secure the South East Forests National Park. With the Park’s gazettal, it was now considered timely to become part of a wider organisation lobbying on conservation issues and park management.

Burning wood for power: a perverse use of public native forests that NSW should not countenance

Posted by NPA NSWon November 22, 2017November 24, 2017in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

The National Parks Association of NSW (NPA) urges the Premier to resist calls from the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to burn north coast forests for power[1]. Touted as ‘innovative’, burning wood for power has been happening for as long as humans have been able to knock stones together to create sparks. It is to energy what the ox is to farming: outdated.