#urunga — Public Fediverse posts

Imagine a car-free corridor from Bellingen to the Gleniffer Valley rivers

They managed to get a 6km cycling, walking and nature corridor from Sydney Harbour to the Cooks River. "For a 20th the cost of WestConnex you could build 50 greenways throughout Sydney...When we’re building more houses, increasing density … we need these green spaces to soften up our suburbs and connect them not just by black pieces of tar."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/06/lewisham-greenway-cycle-path-sydney-inner-west-bruce-ashley
#Bellingen #Roads #GlenifferRoad #Urunga #NeverNever #CarFreeCorridor #GreenWay #cycling #walking #climate #sprawl #cars #GlenifferValleyReserves #traffic #waste

Image : Where the tar / headland meets the Pacific ocean

The Bellinger Valley Indigenous Protected Area

"Yurruungga Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) is dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich cultural heritage of the Gumbaynggirr people. We strive to blend the oldest continuous Culture with contemporary technology and digital methods, ensuring the longevity and dynamic presence of the Gumbaynggirr culture. Our organization works closely with the community, elders, and experts to safeguard our traditions, language, art, and sacred sites. Through education, research, and community engagement, we aim to create a sustainable future for our cultural heritage."
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https://www.yac.org.au/
#GumbaynggirrPeople #FirstNationsPeoples #biodiversity #LandAndSea #Country #BELLIingenShire #Urunga #BellingerValley #Yurruungga #YAC #culture

Remember the Urunga wetlands waste tailings rich in antimony, arsenic, lead and cyanide?

"For five years in the 1960s and 1970s, antimony and other heavy metals leached from an ore processing plant into the melaleuca wetlands. The wetlands used to open up into a moonscape of light grey sand with not a single bit of vegetation."
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https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/2022-07/Urunga-Wetlands-fact-sheet.pdf
https://majorprojects.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/prweb/PRRestService/mp/01/getContent?AttachRef=SSD-5357%2120190227T035916.488%20GMT

Now they want to go for Wild Cattle Creek 'high-grade and high-tonnage' antimony-gold mining >>
https://www.listcorp.com/asx/tmg/trigg-minerals-limited/news/acquisition-of-globally-significant-antimony-project-3091939.html

A Clarence Catchment Alliance community meeting

is being hosted by the Bellingen Environment Centre,
with Blicks River Guardians and Lock the Gate Nambucca,
from 2pm on Friday May 31 at 16 Cudgery St, Dorrigo.
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https://clarencevalleynews.com.au/clarence-catchment-alliance-community-meeting/
#NSW #Dorrigo #Urunga #remediation #CoffsHarbour #mining #antimony #gold #extractivism #harm #WildCattleCreek #WCC #water #contamination #wetlands #rivers #waterways #freshwater #MarineWater #platypus #biodiversity #BellingenShire

"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

Urunga, at the end of its boardwalk has this breakwall. Milky way behind some clouds
#milkyway #nightphotograpy #NSWMidNorthCoast #urunga #MidNorthCoast
#WhereILive

I have a thing about blurry/abstract landscape pics. This one taken at #hungryHead #urunga #moon #landsacape #MidNorthCoast

Another #phoneography #snap taken from the boardwalk here in #urunga #MidNorthCoast #australia

Odd hard edge on those #godrays #crepuscular. I'm guessing there were #clouds below the horizon too. It was fab, we are very lucky.