#gumbaynggirrcountry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gumbaynggirrcountry, aggregated by home.social.
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"Indigenous people here speak of the lack of memorials on this land.
But every bordered property is a site for dark tourism in Australia.
Dark tourism is the effort to seek out destinations of violence and devastation, but it is not hard to see genocide from our front door in this country...Tim Rowse has called the “ongoing colonial encounter sometimes called ‘Australia’”
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https://theconversation.com/dark-tourism-is-attracting-visitors-to-war-zones-and-sites-of-atrocities-in-israel-and-ukraine-why-240119Gumbaynggirr Country is located on the mid-north coast of New South Wales. It is also known as the Bellingen/ Gleniffer Valley and has curated three reserves in the 21st century with memorials which are all named after white settlers:
The Arthur Keough Reserve (Never Never River) is named after the first settler pioneer families to arrive in the Gleniffer Valley.
http://www.bellingennow.com/about/index.htmlAngel Gabriel Capararo 'modernised' the Promised land.
http://www.bellingennow.com/Angel_Gabriel_Capararo/index.htmlEarl Preston reserve was named after a settler who arrived in 1929
http://www.bellingennow.com/Earl_Preston/index.htmlNothing about the massacres and the poisoning to death of local Aboriginal people.
Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1788 to 1930
https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/map.php
https://howlinginfinite.com/2021/03/22/dark-deeds-in-
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/189773560
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_poisonings_of_Aboriginal_Australians
#GumbaynggirrCountry #Bellingen #Fernmount #Gleniffer #TheDrive #MidNorthCoast #IndigenousPeoples #massacres #memorials #tourism #DarkTourism #violence #TuthTelling #denial #SettlerSociety #colonialism -
Modern forestry techniques are destroying biodiversity, poisoning communities and compounding the climate crisis
"Perversely, the use of glyphosate and other herbicides is ensured by industrial monoculture plantations around the world. Under the pretext of climate change mitigation schemes, millions of trees are planted. The plantations do provide raw materials for biofuels and act as powerful carbon sinks. But when a natural forest is converted to a plantation, a natural ecosystem is destroyed. Biodiversity is lost and organic matter and nutrient levels are depleted. In a bid to manage reduced soil fertility, forestry planners use artificial fertilizers and herbicides. Each year, 10 million hectares of natural forest are lost to monoculture plantations. The policy is not addressing climate change. It’s compounding it."
"A 2019 study showed that 80 percent of First Nations communities in Canada are located in fire-prone regions that are often isolated. But the imperatives of eco-capitalism and the commodification of nature have long taken precedence over the traditional knowledge of Indigenous communities—to our collective peril."
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https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/canadian-forestation-policies-add-fuel-to-the-fires
#loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #FlammableForest #plantations #pesticides #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #RuralNSW #MidNorthCoast #monoculture #SaveTuckersNob #pesticides #bushfires #climate #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateExtremes -
"Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is donating a decommissioned fire truck to the Yurruungga Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) on the NSW Mid North Coast to help protect and maintain culturally significant land."
"The bushfire tanker, which is no longer fit for purpose for FRNSW needs, will assist YAC’s Waagay Julu (fire team) to conduct cultural burns and hazard reduction within Gumbaynggirr Country in the Bellingen and Coffs Harbour local government areas."
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https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/incident.php?record=recDxNJzDSTn4HATs
#Urunga #bushfires #YAC #CulturalBurns #GumbaynggirrCountry #FRNSW -
"Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is donating a decommissioned fire truck to the Yurruungga Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) on the NSW Mid North Coast to help protect and maintain culturally significant land."
"The bushfire tanker, which is no longer fit for purpose for FRNSW needs, will assist YAC’s Waagay Julu (fire team) to conduct cultural burns and hazard reduction within Gumbaynggirr Country in the Bellingen and Coffs Harbour local government areas."
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https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/incident.php?record=recDxNJzDSTn4HATs
#Urunga #bushfires #YAC #CulturalBurns #GumbaynggirrCountry #FRNSW -
"Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is donating a decommissioned fire truck to the Yurruungga Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) on the NSW Mid North Coast to help protect and maintain culturally significant land."
"The bushfire tanker, which is no longer fit for purpose for FRNSW needs, will assist YAC’s Waagay Julu (fire team) to conduct cultural burns and hazard reduction within Gumbaynggirr Country in the Bellingen and Coffs Harbour local government areas."
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https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/incident.php?record=recDxNJzDSTn4HATs
#Urunga #bushfires #YAC #CulturalBurns #GumbaynggirrCountry #FRNSW -
"Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is donating a decommissioned fire truck to the Yurruungga Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) on the NSW Mid North Coast to help protect and maintain culturally significant land."
"The bushfire tanker, which is no longer fit for purpose for FRNSW needs, will assist YAC’s Waagay Julu (fire team) to conduct cultural burns and hazard reduction within Gumbaynggirr Country in the Bellingen and Coffs Harbour local government areas."
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https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/incident.php?record=recDxNJzDSTn4HATs
#Urunga #bushfires #YAC #CulturalBurns #GumbaynggirrCountry #FRNSW -
"Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is donating a decommissioned fire truck to the Yurruungga Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) on the NSW Mid North Coast to help protect and maintain culturally significant land."
"The bushfire tanker, which is no longer fit for purpose for FRNSW needs, will assist YAC’s Waagay Julu (fire team) to conduct cultural burns and hazard reduction within Gumbaynggirr Country in the Bellingen and Coffs Harbour local government areas."
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https://www.fire.nsw.gov.au/incident.php?record=recDxNJzDSTn4HATs
#Urunga #bushfires #YAC #CulturalBurns #GumbaynggirrCountry #FRNSW -
Unchecked tourism at Bellingen's Never Never River
Indigenous custodians embrace chance to curb tourism at 'trashed' swimming spot"Occasional closure part of Indigenous Protected Area plan for troubled Never Never River's Promised Lands. The spot has now been declared part of an 81,000-hectare Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) in the Bellingen Valley."
"There have been concerns about pollution in the Never Never River at a popular swimming spot known as the Promised Lands, near the town of Bellingen...In January 2023, water quality at the river showed concerning levels of faecal matter, with human and dog excrement the suspected source."
"It was once regarded as something of a secret spot, but coverage on social media has seen it become an increasingly popular swimming site. But as the site is not recognised as a tourist area by Forestry Corporation NSW, which manages the Crown Land, there are no public toilets or rubbish bins, and minimal parking."
"Rather than it being a free-for-all, driving up and down from sacred places, we need to give it a rest sometimes during the year."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-10/never-never-river-bellingen-indigenous-protected-area/103993356
#PromisedLand #NeverNever #rivers #Bellingen #TheDrive #ExcessiveTourism #tourism #NSW #pollution #dogs #SaveTuckersNob #GumbaynggirrCountry #GoBeforeYouGo #swimming #toilets #MidNorthCoast #platypus -
Where do Large Forest Owls go after fires and logging?
"The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has been running private property conservation initiatives for the large forest owls (Barking, Powerful and Masked Owls) since 2019. The works are focused across Bundjalung, Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr country, in the lower Richmond and lower Clarence floodplains of northern NSW."
They have videos on the use, installation and monitoring of nest boxes and the capture and analysis of acoustic data to assess and monitor fauna.
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https://www.nature.org.au/owls_projectSound ecology of owls and arboreal mammals
https://soundcloud.com/user-999269756-895993867
#owls #birds #GumbaynggirrCountry #hollows #ArborealMammals #LoggingImpacts #NestBoxes #conservation #SoundEcology -
Where do Large Forest Owls go after fires and logging?
"The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has been running private property conservation initiatives for the large forest owls (Barking, Powerful and Masked Owls) since 2019. The works are focused across Bundjalung, Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr country, in the lower Richmond and lower Clarence floodplains of northern NSW."
They have videos on the use, installation and monitoring of nest boxes and the capture and analysis of acoustic data to assess and monitor fauna.
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https://www.nature.org.au/owls_projectSound ecology of owls and arboreal mammals
https://soundcloud.com/user-999269756-895993867
#owls #birds #GumbaynggirrCountry #hollows #ArborealMammals #LoggingImpacts #NestBoxes #conservation #SoundEcology -
Where do Large Forest Owls go after fires and logging?
"The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has been running private property conservation initiatives for the large forest owls (Barking, Powerful and Masked Owls) since 2019. The works are focused across Bundjalung, Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr country, in the lower Richmond and lower Clarence floodplains of northern NSW."
They have videos on the use, installation and monitoring of nest boxes and the capture and analysis of acoustic data to assess and monitor fauna.
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https://www.nature.org.au/owls_projectSound ecology of owls and arboreal mammals
https://soundcloud.com/user-999269756-895993867
#owls #birds #GumbaynggirrCountry #hollows #ArborealMammals #LoggingImpacts #NestBoxes #conservation #SoundEcology -
Where do Large Forest Owls go after fires and logging?
"The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has been running private property conservation initiatives for the large forest owls (Barking, Powerful and Masked Owls) since 2019. The works are focused across Bundjalung, Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr country, in the lower Richmond and lower Clarence floodplains of northern NSW."
They have videos on the use, installation and monitoring of nest boxes and the capture and analysis of acoustic data to assess and monitor fauna.
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https://www.nature.org.au/owls_projectSound ecology of owls and arboreal mammals
https://soundcloud.com/user-999269756-895993867
#owls #birds #GumbaynggirrCountry #hollows #ArborealMammals #LoggingImpacts #NestBoxes #conservation #SoundEcology -
Where do Large Forest Owls go after fires and logging?
"The Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) has been running private property conservation initiatives for the large forest owls (Barking, Powerful and Masked Owls) since 2019. The works are focused across Bundjalung, Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr country, in the lower Richmond and lower Clarence floodplains of northern NSW."
They have videos on the use, installation and monitoring of nest boxes and the capture and analysis of acoustic data to assess and monitor fauna.
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https://www.nature.org.au/owls_projectSound ecology of owls and arboreal mammals
https://soundcloud.com/user-999269756-895993867
#owls #birds #GumbaynggirrCountry #hollows #ArborealMammals #LoggingImpacts #NestBoxes #conservation #SoundEcology -
Traumatised koalas in clear felled forests on the mid-north coast
The Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala Habitat"The NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.
Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees. In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0Are koalas being traded for carbon credits? (audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/koala-carbon-credits-stephen-long/103687144End all logging in public native forests and koala habitat
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-report-the-carbon-credit-grift-destroying-koala-habitat/"Dr Henry, who chairs the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the government should establish a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection and repair."
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/henry-demands-billions-for-nature-repair-market-20240409-p5fiho#NSWLogging #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #PineCreek #MidNorthcCoast #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #koalas #biodversity #GumbaynggirrCountry #ClimateCrisis #governance #failure #FossilFuels #NativeForests #biodiversity #extractivism #offsets #NaturePositive #extinction makers
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Traumatised koalas in clear felled forests on the mid-north coast
The Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala Habitat"The NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.
Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees. In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0Are koalas being traded for carbon credits? (audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/koala-carbon-credits-stephen-long/103687144End all logging in public native forests and koala habitat
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-report-the-carbon-credit-grift-destroying-koala-habitat/"Dr Henry, who chairs the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the government should establish a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection and repair."
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/henry-demands-billions-for-nature-repair-market-20240409-p5fiho#NSWLogging #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #PineCreek #MidNorthcCoast #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #koalas #biodversity #GumbaynggirrCountry #ClimateCrisis #governance #failure #FossilFuels #NativeForests #biodiversity #extractivism #offsets #NaturePositive #extinction makers
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Traumatised koalas in clear felled forests on the mid-north coast
The Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala Habitat"The NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.
Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees. In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0Are koalas being traded for carbon credits? (audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/koala-carbon-credits-stephen-long/103687144End all logging in public native forests and koala habitat
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-report-the-carbon-credit-grift-destroying-koala-habitat/"Dr Henry, who chairs the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the government should establish a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection and repair."
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/henry-demands-billions-for-nature-repair-market-20240409-p5fiho#NSWLogging #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #PineCreek #MidNorthcCoast #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #koalas #biodversity #GumbaynggirrCountry #ClimateCrisis #governance #failure #FossilFuels #NativeForests #biodiversity #extractivism #offsets #NaturePositive #extinction makers
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Traumatised koalas in clear felled forests on the mid-north coast
The Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala Habitat"The NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.
Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees. In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0Are koalas being traded for carbon credits? (audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/koala-carbon-credits-stephen-long/103687144End all logging in public native forests and koala habitat
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-report-the-carbon-credit-grift-destroying-koala-habitat/"Dr Henry, who chairs the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the government should establish a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection and repair."
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/henry-demands-billions-for-nature-repair-market-20240409-p5fiho#NSWLogging #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #PineCreek #MidNorthcCoast #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #koalas #biodversity #GumbaynggirrCountry #ClimateCrisis #governance #failure #FossilFuels #NativeForests #biodiversity #extractivism #offsets #NaturePositive #extinction makers
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Traumatised koalas in clear felled forests on the mid-north coast
The Carbon Credit Grift Destroying Koala Habitat"The NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.
Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees. In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzW-f8y8F0Are koalas being traded for carbon credits? (audio)
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/koala-carbon-credits-stephen-long/103687144End all logging in public native forests and koala habitat
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/video-report-the-carbon-credit-grift-destroying-koala-habitat/"Dr Henry, who chairs the Australian Climate and Biodiversity Foundation, said the government should establish a public fund to spur corporate involvement in “nature-positive” land protection and repair."
https://www.afr.com/policy/energy-and-climate/henry-demands-billions-for-nature-repair-market-20240409-p5fiho#NSWLogging #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #destruction #PineCreek #MidNorthcCoast #LoggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #koalas #biodversity #GumbaynggirrCountry #ClimateCrisis #governance #failure #FossilFuels #NativeForests #biodiversity #extractivism #offsets #NaturePositive #extinction makers
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Bellingen without the forests?
https://bellingenarea.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-master-plan-for-bellingen-placemaking.html
#BellingenShire #Bellingen #MasterPlan #BellingenLogging #Biodiversity #Logging #LoggingIndustry #destruction #LoggingImpacts #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #Gleniffer #GumbaynggirrCountry #SettlerSociety #CarDependency -
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines
Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling..."Since time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire."
"Koalas cannot read signs or distinguish boundaries between native forests, state forest plantations or your backyard."
"Over decades locals and tourists have come to know about the Gleniffer koalas, through registered sightings and expert evidence. Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling, even though Forestry Corporation of NSW (FC NSW) has no social licence."
"After operating within our Shire for over three decades, FC NSW have deliberately withdrawn any connection with the community and take no responsibility for the cumulative damage that the corporation has inflicted on our community’s waterways, roads and bridges".
"...We need to rethink the age-old argument between plantations versus habitat.This requires courage because we all need to have these conversations regarding the remnants in plantations and the wildlife therein."
Bellingen Environment Centre
Take me to the article>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/letter-to-the-editor-bellingen-environment-centre-calls-for-unity
#Savetuckersnob #SavePineCreek #GKNP #NSWLogging #koala #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #Gleniffer #RemnantVegetation #FCNSW #legitimacy -
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines
Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling..."Since time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire."
"Koalas cannot read signs or distinguish boundaries between native forests, state forest plantations or your backyard."
"Over decades locals and tourists have come to know about the Gleniffer koalas, through registered sightings and expert evidence. Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling, even though Forestry Corporation of NSW (FC NSW) has no social licence."
"After operating within our Shire for over three decades, FC NSW have deliberately withdrawn any connection with the community and take no responsibility for the cumulative damage that the corporation has inflicted on our community’s waterways, roads and bridges".
"...We need to rethink the age-old argument between plantations versus habitat.This requires courage because we all need to have these conversations regarding the remnants in plantations and the wildlife therein."
Bellingen Environment Centre
Take me to the article>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/letter-to-the-editor-bellingen-environment-centre-calls-for-unity
#Savetuckersnob #SavePineCreek #GKNP #NSWLogging #koala #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #Gleniffer #RemnantVegetation #FCNSW #legitimacy -
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines
Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling..."Since time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire."
"Koalas cannot read signs or distinguish boundaries between native forests, state forest plantations or your backyard."
"Over decades locals and tourists have come to know about the Gleniffer koalas, through registered sightings and expert evidence. Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling, even though Forestry Corporation of NSW (FC NSW) has no social licence."
"After operating within our Shire for over three decades, FC NSW have deliberately withdrawn any connection with the community and take no responsibility for the cumulative damage that the corporation has inflicted on our community’s waterways, roads and bridges".
"...We need to rethink the age-old argument between plantations versus habitat.This requires courage because we all need to have these conversations regarding the remnants in plantations and the wildlife therein."
Bellingen Environment Centre
Take me to the article>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/letter-to-the-editor-bellingen-environment-centre-calls-for-unity
#Savetuckersnob #SavePineCreek #GKNP #NSWLogging #koala #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #Gleniffer #RemnantVegetation #FCNSW #legitimacy -
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines
Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling..."Since time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire."
"Koalas cannot read signs or distinguish boundaries between native forests, state forest plantations or your backyard."
"Over decades locals and tourists have come to know about the Gleniffer koalas, through registered sightings and expert evidence. Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling, even though Forestry Corporation of NSW (FC NSW) has no social licence."
"After operating within our Shire for over three decades, FC NSW have deliberately withdrawn any connection with the community and take no responsibility for the cumulative damage that the corporation has inflicted on our community’s waterways, roads and bridges".
"...We need to rethink the age-old argument between plantations versus habitat.This requires courage because we all need to have these conversations regarding the remnants in plantations and the wildlife therein."
Bellingen Environment Centre
Take me to the article>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/letter-to-the-editor-bellingen-environment-centre-calls-for-unity
#Savetuckersnob #SavePineCreek #GKNP #NSWLogging #koala #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #Gleniffer #RemnantVegetation #FCNSW #legitimacy -
Australia is a world leader in species extinction and declines
Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling..."Since time immemorial, the Gumbaynggirr Nation has cared for country and we know that the Dunggirr is sacred to the First Nations peoples of Bellingen Shire."
"Koalas cannot read signs or distinguish boundaries between native forests, state forest plantations or your backyard."
"Over decades locals and tourists have come to know about the Gleniffer koalas, through registered sightings and expert evidence. Yet the koala’s feed trees keep falling, even though Forestry Corporation of NSW (FC NSW) has no social licence."
"After operating within our Shire for over three decades, FC NSW have deliberately withdrawn any connection with the community and take no responsibility for the cumulative damage that the corporation has inflicted on our community’s waterways, roads and bridges".
"...We need to rethink the age-old argument between plantations versus habitat.This requires courage because we all need to have these conversations regarding the remnants in plantations and the wildlife therein."
Bellingen Environment Centre
Take me to the article>>
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/letter-to-the-editor-bellingen-environment-centre-calls-for-unity
#Savetuckersnob #SavePineCreek #GKNP #NSWLogging #koala #BiodiversityCrisis #climate #BellingenLogging #GumbaynggirrCountry #Gleniffer #RemnantVegetation #FCNSW #legitimacy -
#EndNativeForestLogging / #SaveTuckersNob
Fossil fuel machinery has started 'treading lightly' in Tuckers Nob public forest today in Bellingen.
Logging trucks were speeding along Roses community road today at 8.30, delivering giant fossil fuel machinery to start the industrial destruction of Tuckers Nob (compartments 26 and 27) public forest.
A vigil is being held by Friends of Tucker Nob on Gleniffer Rd.
Friends of Tucker Nob
https://www.facebook.com/groups/250189120465227/
Bellingen/ Gleniffer Community group protecting and surveying native forests.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLa7XENA3YI
Tim Cadman showing "the incredible beauty and diversity of Tuckers Nob rainforests and remnant forest. #NSWForestry is trying really hard to hide the wonders of this special Koala habitat."'The Koala lives here'
Stop logging native forests
Stop forest destruction in a climate and biodiversity crisis#SaveTuckersNob #Bellingen #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #FCNSW #RosesRoad #Gleniffer #wildlife #koalas #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #GumbaynggirrCountry #BellingenShire #roads #ClimateExtremes #FireRisks #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark
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Gleniffer Reserves and waterways management
There will be a review of the 5 year management plan of the Gleniffer Reserves. A meeting will be held at the Gleniffer Hall on Tuesday 23rd January from 9.30am to 12 noon.
Once residents and visitors have frequented the local watering holes in Bellingen, the swimming holes at Gleniffer are the main thing to do on a hot day. The mass tourism is funneled via ' the tourist drive'. The scenic country road has just been reconstructed into a highway-like infrastructure. Motorists are now enticed to race from the watering hole to the swimming hole. Cars park as close as possible to the small creeks and unload dogs and gear. The unwanted waste is commonly left behind for the local wildlife and the next load of visitors.
The reserves have a lot of car parking infrastructure and educational signage about settler explorers now.
A "Go before you go” campaign urges visitors to go to a public toilet before leaving the township. Many motorists/swimmers forget and the dogs can't read.
The 'upgrade' of Gleniffer road channeled the flow of visitors into local waterways that have no toilets.
#tourism #toilets #waste #rivers #cars #wildlife #platypus #waterways #GumbaynggirrCountry #GlenifferRoad #Gleniffer #PromisedLand #TheDrive #NeverNever #Bellingen #OverTourism #roads #MobilityDesign
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Tuckers Nob Forest future still uncertain
"Two months after the Minister for Agriculture, Tara Moriarty, ordered Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) to temporarily suspend logging in Tuckers Nob, there is still no clear indication of what the future holds for the ecologically sensitive area."
"The Department of Primary Industry is presently undertaking a further assessment of the proposed logging of Tuckers Nob compartments 26 and 27 in respect of how the Unique and Special Wildlife Values within the forest may be impacted."
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https://bellingenshirenews.com/2023/12/20/forest-future-still-uncertain/
#NSWForestry #NSWLogging #FCNSW #RosesRoad #Gleniffer #SaveTuckersNob #wildlife #koalas #biodiversity #ClimateExtremes #GumbaynggirrCountry -
So far only 5 % of the promised Great Koala National Park will not be logged.
Too little and too late...The harvesting operations should be "halted beyond the koala hubs, which protected koala habitats within state forests. Of the 175,000 hectares, we are talking the less than a third of the state forest areas where compartments include koala hubs. The koala hubs are a good start, but we need to go a bit further than that." National Parks Association New South Wales president Grahame Douglas
"NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said logging was stopped on Friday and consultation on the next steps in establishing the park was to begin immediately."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/nsw-government-stops-timber-harvesting-koala-hubs/102844954Now for consultation process>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050546782684016#consultation #NSW #logging #biodiversity #StateForests #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #GumbaynggirrCountry
Image: Tuckers Nob SF, #Bellingen, #koala habitat
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So far only 5 % of the promised Great Koala National Park will not be logged.
Too little and too late...The harvesting operations should be "halted beyond the koala hubs, which protected koala habitats within state forests. Of the 175,000 hectares, we are talking the less than a third of the state forest areas where compartments include koala hubs. The koala hubs are a good start, but we need to go a bit further than that." National Parks Association New South Wales president Grahame Douglas
"NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said logging was stopped on Friday and consultation on the next steps in establishing the park was to begin immediately."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/nsw-government-stops-timber-harvesting-koala-hubs/102844954Now for consultation process>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050546782684016#consultation #NSW #logging #biodiversity #StateForests #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #GumbaynggirrCountry
Image: Tuckers Nob SF, #Bellingen, #koala habitat
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So far only 5 % of the promised Great Koala National Park will not be logged.
Too little and too late...The harvesting operations should be "halted beyond the koala hubs, which protected koala habitats within state forests. Of the 175,000 hectares, we are talking the less than a third of the state forest areas where compartments include koala hubs. The koala hubs are a good start, but we need to go a bit further than that." National Parks Association New South Wales president Grahame Douglas
"NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said logging was stopped on Friday and consultation on the next steps in establishing the park was to begin immediately."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/nsw-government-stops-timber-harvesting-koala-hubs/102844954Now for consultation process>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050546782684016#consultation #NSW #logging #biodiversity #StateForests #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #GumbaynggirrCountry
Image: Tuckers Nob SF, #Bellingen, #koala habitat
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So far only 5 % of the promised Great Koala National Park will not be logged.
Too little and too late...The harvesting operations should be "halted beyond the koala hubs, which protected koala habitats within state forests. Of the 175,000 hectares, we are talking the less than a third of the state forest areas where compartments include koala hubs. The koala hubs are a good start, but we need to go a bit further than that." National Parks Association New South Wales president Grahame Douglas
"NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said logging was stopped on Friday and consultation on the next steps in establishing the park was to begin immediately."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/nsw-government-stops-timber-harvesting-koala-hubs/102844954Now for consultation process>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050546782684016#consultation #NSW #logging #biodiversity #StateForests #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #GumbaynggirrCountry
Image: Tuckers Nob SF, #Bellingen, #koala habitat
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So far only 5 % of the promised Great Koala National Park will not be logged.
Too little and too late...The harvesting operations should be "halted beyond the koala hubs, which protected koala habitats within state forests. Of the 175,000 hectares, we are talking the less than a third of the state forest areas where compartments include koala hubs. The koala hubs are a good start, but we need to go a bit further than that." National Parks Association New South Wales president Grahame Douglas
"NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe said logging was stopped on Friday and consultation on the next steps in establishing the park was to begin immediately."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-12/nsw-government-stops-timber-harvesting-koala-hubs/102844954Now for consultation process>
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/111050546782684016#consultation #NSW #logging #biodiversity #StateForests #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #GumbaynggirrCountry
Image: Tuckers Nob SF, #Bellingen, #koala habitat
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Would rare glossy black cockatoos nest in the proposed Great Koala National Park on the NSW Mid North Coast?
Conservationists are celebrating the rare discovery of nests of one of Australia's most-threatened cockatoos.
The bird is one of the most-threatened species of cockatoos in Australia
For the first time in more than 20 years, glossy black cockatoo nests have been discovered on the New South Wales' Mid North Coast.Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Biliirrgan) listed as vulnerable under federal environmental law
https://glossyblack.org.au/glossy-squad-northern-rivers/#Nambucca #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #GumbaynggirrCountry #Biliirrgan #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #logging #vulnerable #birds #conservation
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Would rare glossy black cockatoos nest in the proposed Great Koala National Park on the NSW Mid North Coast?
Conservationists are celebrating the rare discovery of nests of one of Australia's most-threatened cockatoos.
The bird is one of the most-threatened species of cockatoos in Australia
For the first time in more than 20 years, glossy black cockatoo nests have been discovered on the New South Wales' Mid North Coast.Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Biliirrgan) listed as vulnerable under federal environmental law
https://glossyblack.org.au/glossy-squad-northern-rivers/#Nambucca #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #GumbaynggirrCountry #Biliirrgan #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #logging #vulnerable #birds #conservation
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Would rare glossy black cockatoos nest in the proposed Great Koala National Park on the NSW Mid North Coast?
Conservationists are celebrating the rare discovery of nests of one of Australia's most-threatened cockatoos.
The bird is one of the most-threatened species of cockatoos in Australia
For the first time in more than 20 years, glossy black cockatoo nests have been discovered on the New South Wales' Mid North Coast.Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Biliirrgan) listed as vulnerable under federal environmental law
https://glossyblack.org.au/glossy-squad-northern-rivers/#Nambucca #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #GumbaynggirrCountry #Biliirrgan #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #logging #vulnerable #birds #conservation
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Would rare glossy black cockatoos nest in the proposed Great Koala National Park on the NSW Mid North Coast?
Conservationists are celebrating the rare discovery of nests of one of Australia's most-threatened cockatoos.
The bird is one of the most-threatened species of cockatoos in Australia
For the first time in more than 20 years, glossy black cockatoo nests have been discovered on the New South Wales' Mid North Coast.Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Biliirrgan) listed as vulnerable under federal environmental law
https://glossyblack.org.au/glossy-squad-northern-rivers/#Nambucca #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #GumbaynggirrCountry #Biliirrgan #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #logging #vulnerable #birds #conservation
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Would rare glossy black cockatoos nest in the proposed Great Koala National Park on the NSW Mid North Coast?
Conservationists are celebrating the rare discovery of nests of one of Australia's most-threatened cockatoos.
The bird is one of the most-threatened species of cockatoos in Australia
For the first time in more than 20 years, glossy black cockatoo nests have been discovered on the New South Wales' Mid North Coast.Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Biliirrgan) listed as vulnerable under federal environmental law
https://glossyblack.org.au/glossy-squad-northern-rivers/#Nambucca #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #GumbaynggirrCountry #Biliirrgan #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #logging #vulnerable #birds #conservation