National Parks Association of NSW

Environmental vandalism – NSW Government approves massive Snowy 2.0 transmission lines through Kosciuszko National Park

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2022December 1, 2022in Summer 2022Leave a comment

Ted Woodley, NPA Executive Committee member

In a staggering act of environmental vandalism of epic proportions, the Commonwealth and NSW Governments have just approved the construction of new overhead electricity transmission lines through Australia’s iconic Kosciuszko National Park to connect the Snowy 2.0 pumped storage project.

This reprehensible decision overturns a long-standing ban on new overhead transmission lines. The last overhead transmission line built in a NSW national park was in 1976.

Book Review – A Wide and Open Land: Walking the Last of Western Sydney’s Woodlands

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2022November 29, 2022in Summer 2022Leave a comment

Author: Peter Ridgeway (2022)

Reviewer: Julie Sheppard, Macarthur Branch

The author has, in this book, achieved a long held ambition to document what most Sydney-siders have on their doorstep but barely acknowledge, value or respect. “Cumberland Plain” is a term few recognise or understand (“Cumberland Plain Woodland” even less so). The natural features of the region, its unique geology, flora and fauna are being obliterated at a terrifying pace – The conquest of the Cumberland Plain is the largest construction project ever undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere. Every minute more than 100 tonnes of concrete and aggregate is laid in the rural valley of the Plain, 8 tonnes a year for every man, woman and child. (p.2)

Book Review – The Nutmeg’s Curse

Posted by NPA NSWon December 1, 2022November 29, 2022in Summer 2022Leave a comment

By Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse, Parables for a Planet in Crisis, John Murray 2021

Review by NPA Book Club

Some of us knew Ghosh as a fiction writer with a Bengali background and nature friendly perspective. Here he takes a scholarly and passionate approach to the current crisis of imminent planetary collapse. He begins with the Dutch finding nutmeg in the Banda islands in the 17^th century and their subsequent dispossession and extermination of the human inhabitants.

Nature Kids Summer 2022

Posted by NPA NSWon November 30, 2022December 1, 2022in Summer 2022Leave a comment

Find awe & yourself in nature

NPA Volunteer Awards 2022

Posted by NPA NSWon November 29, 2022December 1, 2022in Summer 2022Leave a comment

Our annual awards recognise and celebrate the valuable contribution, effort and achievement made by volunteers. NPA award recipients have:

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Private Forestry Bill to propel koalas to extinction

Posted by NPA NSWon November 14, 2022November 14, 2022in Media ReleasesLeave a comment

Barely a week after conservationists, business and community came together in Coffs Harbour to plan for the return of healthy koala populations across NSW¹, the NSW Government has chosen to undermine all recovery efforts by stripping away restrictions on Private Native Forestry.

National Parks Association CEO Gary Dunnett said the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Private Native Forestry) Bill 20222 effectively removes local government’s ability regulate logging in private native forests.