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The NSW National Parks Establishment Plan 2008 ten years on

Posted by NPA NSWon August 31, 2018September 5, 2018in Spring 20181 Comment

What’s been achieved and where to next?

Rob Dick, Former head of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) land acquisition program 1996-2012.

Most existing NPWS terrestrial parks and reserves still require major additions and boundary fine-tuning to ensure their long-term viability. In many parts of NSW there are still few or no parks at all. Recognising this in 2008, the NSW Government sought to better articulate the rationale and future plans for a long-term ongoing program to continue building the NPWS system of terrestrial parks and reserves (the ‘parks system’). The resulting ‘NSW National Parks Establishment Plan 2008’¹(‘the Plan’) declared this task only half complete. The Plan is currently under Government review.

Future of Australian forests is vital to our own

Posted by NPA NSWon August 31, 2018August 30, 2018in Native Forest Logging, Spring 2018Leave a comment

^{Dr John Van Der Kallen, rheumatologist and member of Doctors for the Environment Australia.}

Forests add value to our lives in so many ways.

They clean our air and water, promote rain formation and protect soils from salinity and erosion.

On the campaign trail

Posted by NPA NSWon August 31, 2018August 31, 2018in Campaigns and Conservation, Spring 2018Leave a comment

Snowy Hydro 2.0

The human impact on Kosciuszko National Park (KNP) also continues unabated, with the Federal and NSW Coalition Governments committing to the construction of Snowy Hydro 2.0. While supporting renewable energy like pumped hydro in principle, NPA opposes the development of this type of infrastructure within national parks. In early March, the NSW Planning Minister declared Snowy Hydro 2.0 Critical State Significant Infrastructure, with a Legislative Council Inquiry into the order being held in May. NPA made a submission to the inquiry and appeared as an expert witness. NPA is also preparing a submission in response to the recently released Environmental Impact Statement for Snowy Hydro 2.0 Exploratory Works.

Wild Wild Inner West Launched

Posted by NPA NSWon August 31, 2018August 30, 2018in Spring 2018Leave a comment

^{Stephanie Clark, Citizen Science Officer}

The ‘Wild Wild Inner West’ project launched with a pub talk event run as part of the Sydney Science Festival in August. The pub talk had ecologists and biologists from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales discuss urban ecology and urban nature in the City of Sydney and Inner West Council Local Government Areas.

Exploring the Great Koala National Park Proposal

Posted by NPA NSWon August 31, 2018August 30, 2018in Campaigns and Conservation, Great Koala National Park, Nature NSW, Spring 2018Leave a comment

^{Helen Wilson, Member, National Parks Association of NSW}

We bushwalk for the good of our bodies and souls, but we can also walk in special places to think about how we can help to be better stewards of them. The NPA’s activities program provides opportunities for members to see for themselves what’s happening with our park campaigns.

University Environmental Historians view NPA’s Understorey

Posted by NPA NSWon August 31, 2018August 30, 2018in Spring 2018Leave a comment

^{Janine Kitson, NPA member}

NPA’s film Understorey was recently screened to environmental historians from universities around the country, at the Australian Historical Association Conference, held at the Australian National University in July, 2018.