#rosesrd — Public Fediverse posts

* Barbed wire
is a severe threat to Australian wildlife. Tens to hundreds of thousands of native animals—including flying-foxes, gliders, koalas, and birds of prey—die or are severely injured each year after becoming entangled on the barbs.

* "Wildlife-friendly fencing
plays a vital role in allowing safe movement of native animals across the landscape, helping to reduce injuries, fatalities, and habitat fragmentation. Encourage wildlife friendly fencing in your local area. Each year thousands of animals face a cruel death entangled on barbed wire fences."

Make your fencing wildlife friendly
Avoid barbed wire
Reduce tangle hotspots
Increase visibility >>
https://www.wires.org.au/what-we-do/wildlife-information/general-information/wildlife-friendly-fencing

* Flying-foxes and barbed wire >>
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/wildlife-management/management-flying-foxes/flying-foxes-and-barbed-wire-wildlife-management
#biodiversity #wildlife #fences #mortality #livestock #VirtualFencing #BellingenShire #RosesRd #BarbedWireFences #harm

* Barbed wire
is a severe threat to Australian wildlife. Tens to hundreds of thousands of native animals—including flying-foxes, gliders, koalas, and birds of prey—die or are severely injured each year after becoming entangled on the barbs.

* "Wildlife-friendly fencing
plays a vital role in allowing safe movement of native animals across the landscape, helping to reduce injuries, fatalities, and habitat fragmentation. Encourage wildlife friendly fencing in your local area. Each year thousands of animals face a cruel death entangled on barbed wire fences."

Make your fencing wildlife friendly
Avoid barbed wire
Reduce tangle hotspots
Increase visibility >>
https://www.wires.org.au/what-we-do/wildlife-information/general-information/wildlife-friendly-fencing

* Flying-foxes and barbed wire >>
https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/wildlife-management/management-flying-foxes/flying-foxes-and-barbed-wire-wildlife-management
#biodiversity #wildlife #fences #mortality #livestock #VirtualFencing #BellingenShire #RosesRd #BarbedWireFences #harm

Bellingen's 'vanishing' biodiversity

The 'upgrade' of Gleniffer Road and and Roses Rd. encourages motorists to drive as fast and careless as possible. Road signage is knocked down as no road is ever wide enough.

Biodiversity has to live in this fragmented space with speeding combustion boxes. All year around there are dead beings on the road that drivers kill and mush up.

Here are the latest killings in just a few days:

A large beautiful python on the middle of Roses Rd cut in half with one half missing
A freshwater turtle smeared along the road.
A stunning bright Green Tree Snake killed and tied into a knot.
Many birds along the roadside, crippled and enduring a slow death
No one counts the carnage.
#biodiversity #motorists #cars #roads #harm #MassMortalityEvents #extinction makers #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #BellingenShire #mobility #wildlife

Bellingen's 'vanishing' biodiversity

The 'upgrade' of Gleniffer Road and and Roses Rd. encourages motorists to drive as fast and careless as possible. Road signage is knocked down as no road is ever wide enough.

Biodiversity has to live in this fragmented space with speeding combustion boxes. All year around there are dead beings on the road that drivers kill and mush up.

Here are the latest killings in just a few days:

A large beautiful python on the middle of Roses Rd cut in half with one half missing
A freshwater turtle smeared along the road.
A stunning bright Green Tree Snake killed and tied into a knot.
Many birds along the roadside, crippled and enduring a slow death
No one counts the carnage.
#biodiversity #motorists #cars #roads #harm #MassMortalityEvents #extinction makers #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #BellingenShire #mobility #wildlife

The koalas in Tuckers Nob State Forest 'Plantation' need your help
We are raising funds to help save the koalas of the Bellingen/ Gleniffer native forests from logging and clear-felling,
>>
https://www.gofundme.com/f/voice-for-koalas-be-a-part-of-the-solution

>> #SaveTuckersNob
#Gleniffer #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #BellingenLogging #NSWForestry #ClearFelling #TuckersNob026027 #SaveTuckersNob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #wildlife #biodiversity

The koalas in Tuckers Nob State Forest 'Plantation' need your help
We are raising funds to help save the koalas of the Bellingen/ Gleniffer native forests from logging and clear-felling,
>>
https://www.gofundme.com/f/voice-for-koalas-be-a-part-of-the-solution

>> #SaveTuckersNob
#Gleniffer #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #BellingenLogging #NSWForestry #ClearFelling #TuckersNob026027 #SaveTuckersNob #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #wildlife #biodiversity

The extraction roads they are building around Bellingen (for the last year) could be sourcing the road making materials from the NSW Hunter region which is also a koala habitat. The forests there and here are covered in dust and residents relying on water caught off their roofs are forced to drink polluted water.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/hunter-region-quarry-proposals-spark-environmental-concerns/102730900
#koalas #logging #quarry #StopLogging #NativeForest #BellingenLogging #roads #traffic #dust #pollution #water #Bellingen #WaterTanks #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #SaveTuckersNob

The extraction roads they are building around Bellingen (for the last year) could be sourcing the road making materials from the NSW Hunter region which is also a koala habitat. The forests there and here are covered in dust and residents relying on water caught off their roofs are forced to drink polluted water.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-25/hunter-region-quarry-proposals-spark-environmental-concerns/102730900
#koalas #logging #quarry #StopLogging #NativeForest #BellingenLogging #roads #traffic #dust #pollution #water #Bellingen #WaterTanks #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #SaveTuckersNob

Logging Tucker's Nob
Let's do what we can
To save what we can

#Bellingen #BellingenLogging #SaveTuckersNob #GlenifferRd #RosesRd #biodiversity #GKNP

Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting

To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at

Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala

Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Information Meeting

To the community of Tuckers Nob State Forest and any residents concerned by proposed Industrial Logging of Compartments 26/27 you are invited to a meeting by Friends of Tuckers Nob at

Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#biodiversity #climate #FossilFuels #fire #risks #water #Bellingen #catchment #RosesRd #GlenifferRd #trucks #traffic #noise #dust #Gleniffer #meeting #Gumbaynggirr #MidNorthCoast #logging #BellingenLogging #TuckersNobSF #woodchips #GKNP #ClearFelling #koala

On the Highway to Climate Hell
The world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists.
“We have entire cities and transportation hubs that were all built for climate that no longer exists...unprepared for the climate risks we face today."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/11/climate-change-critical-infrastructure-heat-flood-energy-transportation-housing/

Recent road 'upgrades' in #Bellingen had logging and tourist supply chains in mind. All roads were extended with a lot of deforestation, heavy machinery using fossil fuels and cement. A climate and biodiversity disaster. None provide for a walking, cycling or e-mobility infrastructure.

#Bellingen #roads #GlenifferRoad #NorthBankRoad #RosesRd #FossilFuel #logging #infrastructure #climate

On the Highway to Climate Hell
The world's infrastructure was built for a climate that no longer exists.
“We have entire cities and transportation hubs that were all built for climate that no longer exists...unprepared for the climate risks we face today."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/08/11/climate-change-critical-infrastructure-heat-flood-energy-transportation-housing/

Recent road 'upgrades' in #Bellingen had logging and tourist supply chains in mind. All roads were extended with a lot of deforestation, heavy machinery using fossil fuels and cement. A climate and biodiversity disaster. None provide for a walking, cycling or e-mobility infrastructure.

#Bellingen #roads #GlenifferRoad #NorthBankRoad #RosesRd #FossilFuel #logging #BellingenLogging #infrastructure #so50s #climate

How is Bellingen's "Road Renewal Program" going?
The road reconstruction of Gleniffer Road and diversion (Roses Road) is supposed to be completed by July 2023.

A preview at what once was a scenic forest road has now the charm of a highway. Apart from the logging scars along it, the road is widened and reveals steep bare gullies where the biodiverse flora and fauna has been eliminated.

The widened shoulders of the 'highway' are mostly lined with concrete gutters and culverts. The most fertile layer of the earth is sealed with a thick layer of cement. A rock-hard second skin entombs the living, fertile soil and brings great convenience to fossil fuel enthusiasts on their 'drive'. The road shoulder used to be soft with terrestrial orchids growing on the edges. Now it's given the hard shoulder to channel runoff and pollution down into the bush and the creeks as a fast runoff. It's called taming nature.

Concrete is considered the most destructive material on Earth, it is one of the main producers of carbon dioxide. “If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world with up to 2.8bn tonnes, surpassed only by China and the US.”
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth

The channeled cement gutter flow of these hydraulic stormwater structures has negative impacts on stream habitats and biota. Migrating animals find the widened road with slick cement hard to cross. The water quality and habitat become fragmented and degraded.

Soon the speeding vehicles will crack the cement blocks (As can be seen at any NSW roundabout) and they will crumble as rubbish into the bush.

The project doesn't seem to add to Australia's ‘fair share’ to contain global heating or refraining from engaging in extinction.

#Bellingen #Roads #subdivisions #logging #GlenifferRd #RosesRd #RoadConstruction #Soil #Wildlife #Erosion #Runoff #Flooding #Cement #Cars #FossilFuel #ClimateEmergency #Energy

#Bellingen or NT it's all about getting the stuff out of there..
“The whole pastoral enterprise relies on being able to get big, heavy road trains in, with supplements and inputs, and out with #cattle that earn export dollars. Roads are an absolutely critical piece of infrastructure.[And better roads] could be a significant spin-off from the gas industry being developed."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-05-17/nt-pastoralists-divided-on-beetaloo-basin-gas-industry-fracking/102338286
#Roads #Infrastructure #massive #Trucks #HeavyVehicles #WaterfallWay #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #Emissions #Pollution #BellingenLogging #Extractivism #anotherdayinthecolony #GKNP

Copenhagen wants to ban petrol and diesel cars.
The Danish capital Copenhagen is looking to ban cars with combustion engines from the city by 2030.
https://www.electrive.com/2023/05/08/copenhagen-wants-to-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars/

E-buses only in Copenhagen by 2025
https://www.electrive.com/2023/02/06/e-buses-only-in-copenhagen-by-2025/

No #Mobility #Transition in sight in #Bellingen. Small electric buses would be ideal.

Images: #RosesRd and a fleet of #diesel #buses pushing through #DangerousBends at high speed.
Zero #Emission Buses #ZEBs #NSW #LiveablePlaces #UnsafeRoads

All over #Bellingen the small, windy and steep country #roads are engineered to make believe they are highways. All native vegetation on either side is just erased to make it appear the road is 3 m wider on either side. 'Dirt' in the path of progress is bulldozed out of the way. Trees/ #Biodiversity is mutilated or eliminated. Fence posts are almost dug under to make it appear this is another expressway you can speed along with convoys of trucks, either getting the stuff 'outta here' or stomping another suburb in.
Residents, flora and #wildlife are driven out. Straining to deliver a faceless #sprawl looking like any other place.
#FossilFuel #NorthBankRoad #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #so50s #rapid #Extractivism

All over #Bellingen the small, windy and steep country #roads are engineered to make believe they are highways. All native vegetation on either side is just erased to make it appear the road is 3 m wider on either side. 'Dirt' in the path of progress is bulldozed out of the way. Trees/ #Biodiversity is mutilated or eliminated. Fence posts are almost dug under to make it appear this is another expressway you can speed along with convoys of trucks, either getting the stuff 'outta here' or stomping another suburb in.
Residents, flora and #wildlife are driven out. Straining to deliver a faceless #sprawl looking like any other place.
#FossilFuel #NorthBankRoad #RosesRd #GlenifferRoad #so50s #rapid #Extractivism

A SUV (armoured vehicle) was unwilling to stop at the only pedestrian crossing today - a near fatal 'accident'.
Cavalcades of B-double trucks shooting through Bellingen #HydeStreet. A diesel generator pumping #FossiFuel to power the only traffic lights in #Bellingen. A forest of signs is ignored by all. Speeding of trucks and cars is not monitored on #RosesRd. It's the #WildWest... Roads are there to get 'stuff' out and smash a few more suburbs in.

Slow down at pedestrian crossings
https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/stopping-giving-way-turning/pedestrian-crossings
#Roads #HydeStreet #Hyde #Traffic #Pedestrians reject #CarDependency #VillageHell #RoadAccidents #BellingenLogging
Image: There goes Bello #Biodiversity flying by on a truck on Hyde

Urban traffic noise causes song learning deficits in #birds
“#Traffic #noise leads to inaccuracies and delays in the development of song learning in young birds. They also suffer from a suppressed immune system, which is an indicator of chronic stress. A new study by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and colleagues shows that young zebra finches, just like children, are particularly vulnerable to the effects of noise because of its potential to interfere with learning at a critical developmental stage.”
https://www.mpg.de/16889599/0511-orni-urban-traffic-noise-causes-song-learning-deficits-in-birds-154562-x

Traffic noise disrupts vocal development and suppresses immune function
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351534211_Traffic_noise_disrupts_vocal_development_and_suppresses_immune_function

#Birds #Roads #Cars #Chronic #Stress #Learning impairments #Language #Deficits #Immunity #Anthropogenic #Noise #Pollution #GlenifferRoad #RosesRd
Image: Bellingen mural

The #Bellingen "Road Renewal Program" requires
#GlenifferRd to be closed between #RosesRd North and Roses Road South intersections from 9 January 2023 - end July 2023.

The 'upgrade' is a downgrade for ratepayers affected by the increased traffic on Roses Road. Dust and noise #pollution from heavy machinery is a daily occurrence. #BellingenShireCouncil managed to transform a rural area into an industrial zone for a whole year of residents' lives.

"APRIL 2023 UPDATE: Additional Funding of $3.5M was awarded in April 2023 to the Gleniffer Road upgrade project. The additional works that can now be undertaken, will mean an extension of approximately 7-8 months onto the project’s timeline. The expected completion date for the additional funding works is December 2023."
https://www.bellingen.nsw.gov.au/Services/Major-Projects-Capital-Works/Major-Projects-RoadBridge-works/Roads/Gleniffer-Road
#Tourist destination #Roads #Roads #TheDrive #Deforestation #Logging #Biodiversity #AlienatingRatepayers #BellingenShire #Noise #Dust #Traffic #DrivingLocalsOut #FossilFuel What #ClimateChange #cars
Image: Gleniffer Road logging site (left). Get the stuff outta here and line the roads with money. Make it a four lane highway!

Nothing to see here!

#Bellingen clear felling at #GlenifferRoad update.

Road diversion for four months, also known as 'road improvements'. Meanwhile #RosesRd is used as a highway, it's overused and cracking up.

#BellingenLogging #Deforestation #Biodiversity #GKNP #Koala #Forests

“Just 0.2% of Australia’s bus fleet is electric”
“Electrifying bus fleets is an easy first step that state governments can take toward achieving their net zero goals”
“Burning one litre of #diesel produces around 2.7kg of CO2, which means that diesel buses produce about 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 annually—roughly equivalent to the entire Australian Capital Territory’s carbon emissions in 2020-21.”
https://thedriven.io/2023/04/12/the-states-havent-delivered-report-finds-just-0-2-of-australias-buses-are-electric/
#Carbon #Emissions #Noise #Diesel #Pollution #Petrol #Diesel exhaust #Roads #Congestion #Air pollution #PublicHealth #RespiratoryHospitalisations #ClimatecChange

Fleets of (school) diesel buses and congested traffic is redirected onto a tiny, steep country road with "dangerous bends". Note the group of cyclist that are without a cycle path and pedestrians have no footpath. Due to overuse the newly made potholes require filling with the help of #FossilFuel and asphalt almost daily. The edges of the road are being cracked by the heavy load of traffic.
#Bellingen #RosesRd #Logging #Detour #Mobility

“Just 0.2% of Australia’s bus fleet is electric”
“Electrifying bus fleets is an easy first step that state governments can take toward achieving their net zero goals”
“Burning one litre of #diesel produces around 2.7kg of CO2, which means that diesel buses produce about 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 annually—roughly equivalent to the entire Australian Capital Territory’s carbon emissions in 2020-21.”
https://thedriven.io/2023/04/12/the-states-havent-delivered-report-finds-just-0-2-of-australias-buses-are-electric/
#Carbon #Emissions #Noise #Diesel #Pollution #Petrol #Diesel exhaust #Roads #Congestion #Air pollution #PublicHealth #RespiratoryHospitalisations #ClimatecChange

Fleets of (school) diesel buses and congested traffic is redirected onto a tiny, steep country road with "dangerous bends". Note the group of cyclist that are without a cycle path and pedestrians have no footpath. Due to overuse the newly made potholes require filling with the help of #FossilFuel and asphalt almost daily. The edges of the road are being cracked by the heavy load of traffic.
#Bellingen #RosesRd #Logging #Detour #Mobility

Could the road diversion be to hush up land clearing of #Koala habitat in #Bellingen?
#RosesRd #GlenifferRd #FrenchmannsCreek #Logging #BellingenLogging #Deforestation #GKNP #Biodiversity

Scheduled Roadwork Resurfacing
https://www.livetraffic.com/incident-details/145929
Gleniffer Road between Roses Road North Intersection and Roses Road South Intersection
Mon 9 Jan 2023 to Sun 30 Apr 2023

#Bellingen: Bulldozing More #Roads. More, wider, faster... Have dangerous bends on very steep slopes, get #landslides and 'accidents'.
#RosesRd diy #Unsafe #Road rockfalls deep-seated slope failures mudflows debris flows #Biodiversity #habitat