This article first appeared in Mid North Coast July 2023 newsletter. Reprinted with permission.
Walk leaders: Sue Goodison & Roxanne Dunn
Number of walkers: 19 (Direct Ascent); 6 (Longer Ascent)
Reports: Sue Goodison & Roxanne Dunn
It was the last working day before Christmas 2023, and I got the call that the Land and Environment Court was ready to hand down its judgement on NPA’s appeal against the Snowy 2.0 amendment to the Kosciuszko National Park Plan of Management. Four-thirty pm, moments before the court closed for the year, the Chief Justice announced that he was dismissing NPA’s case. The Minister’s decision to remove the prohibition on the construction of new transmission lines through Kosciuszko, just for Snowy 2.0, was upheld.
Read More “Our case against the Snowy 2.0 transmission lines through Kosciuszko National Park.”
Dr Joseph DiBattista, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
Home to the billowing sails of the Opera House and the shimmering arches of the Harbour Bridge, Sydney is famed for its magnificent harbour – but what lies beneath the water’s surface? This information might be up to date for some of the more conspicuous and taxonomically resolved groups of resident animals, such as the fishes of Sydney Harbour (we are now up to 675 known fish species, with 10 more new records added since our scientific publication in Marine Pollution Bulletin in December 2022), but what about the inconspicuous and less resolved animals and plants? Moreover, there are large swaths of Sydney Harbour where we have little documented biodiversity data, even at some of the most frequented swimming beaches or adjacent to some of the most heavily populated suburbs.
Graham Burgess and Helen Wilson, Illawarra Branch
Killalea Regional Park is the only coastal reserve between Shellharbour, south of Wollongong, and Seven Mile Beach south of Kiama. As housing developments have burgeoned in the former dairy farming area, many coastal environments have been threatened. It’s important that what remains is well protected, so the new Draft Plan of Management (DPOM) is a step in the right direction.
Sue Baker, Mid North Coast Branch
This article first appeared in Mid North Coast July 2023 newsletter. Reprinted with permission.
AN EXCITING FIND: Great excitement in the NSW orchid world and amongst rangers in the Hastings Macleay NPWS office has been aroused by Tom Clarke’s discovery of an unusual orchid in the northern section of Crowdy Bay NP during the bush regen camp that he ran in September on behalf of our branch. Tom has become my invaluable right-hand man in our ongoing project for some years now.
Christine and Michael Henderson
This article first appeared in Central Coast Branch Summer 2023 newsletter. Reprinted with permission.
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