Winter 2024 – Page 2 – National Parks Association of NSW

Book Review: The Secret Life of Wombats by James Woodford

Posted by NPA NSWon May 29, 2024May 30, 2024in Winter 2024Leave a comment

Pam Dawes, NPA Environmental Book Club

This book begins by exploring through the eyes of a 15-year-old schoolboy, Peter Nicholson, the burrows of wombats; wriggling on his tummy and exploring a world not unlike that of Alice’s Wonderland. His notes and tunnel maps written in 1960, are still being referred to today, as his feat has not been repeated. Imagine coming face to face with a wombat within a tunnel only just big enough to wriggle through. Peter excavated the tunnels just enough in a few places, to make a turnaround, so he could come out of the burrow face first.

Book Review: The Frenchman

Posted by NPA NSWon May 29, 2024May 30, 2024in Winter 2024Leave a comment

The Frenchman. Francis Barrallier life & journeys 1773-1853

Andy Macqueen (self published) 2024

RRP $40.00

A review by Roger Lembit

Andy Macqueen has written a new book about the life and travels of Francis Barrallier. Barrallier, who served as an Ensign and Aide-de-Camp in the early days of colonial Sydney penetrated deep into the southern Blue Mountains over ten years before the crossing by Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.

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Nature Kids Winter 2024

Posted by NPA NSWon May 29, 2024May 30, 2024in Winter 2024Leave a comment

Animals surviving and sometimes thriving

Book Review: Secrets of the Saltmarsh

written by Claire Saxby & illustrated by Alicia Rogerson

Reviewed by Amelia (age 9)

Secrets of the Saltmarsh looks like a fiction book because of its beautiful illustrations and the writing structure, but it is filled with tonnes of bustling facts about the saltmarsh environment!

NPA v. Minister for Environment [2023] NSWLEC 149

Posted by NPA NSWon May 29, 2024May 30, 2024in Winter 2024Leave a comment

https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/18c8eb11df25ede6b997dd92

Bruce Donald AM, senior environmental lawyer

Over the last five years I have worked with Ted Woodley, Gary Dunnett and the NPA Executive in a voluntary capacity providing legal advice on the Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro battery project. Members are well aware that from the outset the project was considered to be entirely misconceived economically, in its electrical engineering and transmission and involving serious environmental impact on Kosciuszko National Park.

New South Wales in hot water

Posted by NPA NSWon May 29, 2024May 30, 2024in Winter 2024Leave a comment

James Sherwood, Conservation Campaigner, National Parks Association of NSW

Reports of 28-degree water temperature inside Pittwater Heads over autumn has made diving off Sydney coast more appealing than ever before. The sad reality, however, is the ecological cost of this year’s marine heatwave may cause irreversible changes to our marine environment along the NSW coast.