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BellingenNSW

The 'world's watching' koalas getting under Aussie wheels

They are begging motorists to slow down when driving through known koala habitats, but...

"Since European colonisation, koala habitat in Australia has been devastated, with approximately 29 million hectares (54 per cent) of forests and woodlands destroyed in NSW alone. Even in recent years, deforestation has continued at an alarming pace...Koalas are facing extinction in NSW by 2050."
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au.news.yahoo.com/drivers-warn
#biodiversity #extinction #koalas #marsupials #roads #cars #Roadkill #RoadTrauma #NSW #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #wildlife #deforestation

Yahoo News · Drivers warned after 'heartbreaking' find next to road at Aussie tourist townBy Joe Attanasio
BellingenNSW

A rare patch of mature coastal forest at risk of logging

“It should be protected in the great koala national park, and should have been assessed by the NSW government."

"High density’ area of endangered species left out of NSW great koala national park plan, advocates say
Call to include area comes amid frustration at how long it is taking Minns government to declare park’s boundaries and meet its election commitment."

"Logging has continued within areas assessed for the proposed park and there has been growing anger within the conservation community about convictions recorded by the state logging agency for breaches of environmental conditions."
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theguardian.com/environment/20
#biodiversity #EndangeredHabitats #conservation #MidNorthCoast #Valla #Bollanolla #NSWLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #wildlife #FCNSW #breach

The Guardian · ‘High density’ area of endangered species left out of NSW great koala national park plan, advocates sayBy Lisa Cox
BellingenNSW

Out there on the frontline of the disaster zones:

"This is climate-fuelled precipitation … rivers falling from the sky, rain bombs, annual rainfall in two nights and this is the new world we live [in]."

And Australia has no national climate adaptation plan.

"Approvals for fossil fuel projects need to stop, and a national disaster plan is needed. Scientists and politicians are warning big policy shifts are needed to mitigate extreme weather impacts, following what farmers describe as unprecedented flooding in the New South Wales Hunter and Mid North Coast regions last month."
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abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-06-

Woodside’s North West Shelf approval is by no means a one-off.
Here are 6 other giant gas projects to watch
"The science is clear: no fossil fuel projects can be opened if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change."
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theconversation.com/woodsides-
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #NSW #MidNorthCoast #RainBombs #flooding #Australia #climate #governance

ABC News · Farmers face 'new world' of extreme weather as scientists urge action on climate changeBy David Claughton
O=C=O

Schwere Überschwemmungen an australischer Ostküste

An der Ostküste #Australien's sind nach heftigen Regenfällen in den letzten Tagen ganze Landstriche überflutet. Besonders betroffen sind die Kleinstädte #Taree in der Weinregion #HunterValley und #Wingham in der Region #MidNorthCoast. Das betroffene Gebiet liegt rund 300 Kilometer nördlich von Sydney.
Mehr als 80 Schulen blieben geschlossen. Es kam zu Stromausfällen. Meteorologinnen und Meteorologen sagten derweil bis Freitag weitere starke Niederschläge voraus. Der staatliche Wetterdienst warnte vor „lebensgefährlichen #Sturzfluten“ in einigen Regionen.

orf.at/stories/3394459/

#Klimakatastrophe
#Extremwetter

BellingenNSW

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred sparks call to cyclone-proof homes as far south as northern NSW

"The research is really clear that cyclones and severe weather events are coming south along the Queensland and Australian coastline, and that our severe weather events will become more severe... Professor Steve Turton, a climate change expert with Central Queensland University, said homes and buildings outside traditional cyclone zones should now be subject to cyclone ratings, including in south-east Queensland and even northern New South Wales. I would suggest it needs to go down to at least Coffs Harbour." >>
abc.net.au/news/2025-03-23/ex-
#FossilFuels #plasterboard #housing #cyclone #climate #infrastructure #NSW #storms #floods #disaster #CoffsHarbour #MidNorthCoast

ABC News · Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred sparks call to cyclone-proof homes as far south as northern NSWBy Kirrin McKechnie
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BellingenNSW

"Digging dams in sensitive environments"

"A commercial farming company (Green Leaf Australia Group) and one of its directors have together been fined close to $300,000, for constructing and using dams without approval and impacting a "nationally significant" freshwater wetland in northern New South Wales."

"...The court found that some of the offences involved removing vegetation and clearing land, which caused harm to the environment, including nationally significant freshwater wetlands listed as endangered ecological communities.

"It's not just the environmental harm but also the Aboriginal cultural harm that's occurred though this offending, which Magistrate Scott Nash described as 'reckless and motivated for financial gain,'" Ms Stockley said."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-03-05/300
#wetlands #ecosystems #water #biodiversity #Ramsar #conservation #NSW #MidNorthCoast #ClybuccaAboriginalArea #harm #landclearing #irrigation #FinancialGain #extractivism

ABC News · Green Leaf Australia Group and director fined for illegal dams in wetlandBy Emma Siossian
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BellingenNSW

The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk

Intensifying the throughput rate with a series of soaring walkways through the Gondwana Rainforest

The $56.4 million investment in Dorrigo National Park will create “accessible, engaging and immersive experiences for visitors. The 4-day walking track will “connect people with nature... The new 46-km multi-day walk along the rugged escarpment within Dorrigo and Bindarri national parks, includes hiker camps, pedestrian bridges and lookouts.”

The review of environmental factors for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk is available for public comment
>> until 24 February 2025. >>
www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/to
nsw.gov.au/have-your-say/dorri

The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk project has the potential to put though an extra 200,000 visitors ...>
bellingenshirenews.com/2023/11

There is an information session at the

Gleniffer Hall at 10am on Tuesday 11 February

at which staff from National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will outline the draft review of environmental factors (REF) for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk.

#biodiversity#rainforest#Gondwana
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BellingenNSW

Koala hotspot 'discovered'

Thermal drones found one of the state's highest density koala populations.
"If each landowner does one small project … all of these projects add up into something really worthwhile."

Koalas face extinction in New South Wales within the next 25 years.

Bellingen accelerates the demise of the species by
Logging and clear felling the marsupials' habitat.
Encouraging speeding combustion engines by increasing and widening roads.
Road and pet density set up koalas for injuries and death.
Many cattle properties avoid trees to make "the land yield results".
The five acre hobby kingdoms are mostly manicure lawns and exotic flora and fauna.
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abc.net.au/news/2025-01-12/koa

Road and dog density contribute to the extinction of koalas >>
mastodon.au/@Bellingen/1137801
#koalas #cattle #Taree #NSW #MidNorthCoast #LandOwners #Bellingen #NSWLogging #FCNSW #extinction #dogs #MobilityDesign #roads #GlenifferRoad

ABC News · Koala hotspot discovered around Bootawa Dam near Taree, NSWBy Emma Siossian
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BellingenNSW

Koala habitat and roads

"A research project to compile the first genome map of koalas across eastern Australia has exposed areas where the species is most at risk.The most surprising results were in coastal pockets of NSW, where koala populations are increasingly hemmed between sprawling coastal communities, and the Pacific Highway."

"Those koala populations are really quite constrained genetically because you've got ocean on one side, highway on another and a town to the north and a town to the south.The fracturing of habitat makes it hard for koalas to mix and diversify the genes of their offspring, putting the species at risk of extinction from environmental shocks, and serious diseases like chlamydia."
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abc.net.au/news/2024-12-03/koa
#koalas #wildlife #habitat #MidNorthCoast #NSW #roads #cars #sprawl #extinction #GlenifferRoad #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #PacificHighway

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BellingenNSW

End the destruction of native forests by logging now

"Pressure is mounting on the NSW government to end its logging of the proposed Great Koala National Park immediately. Logging by the government-owned Forestry Corporation inside its proposed boundaries has intensified...Native state forests are public assets belonging to everyone in our state..."
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smh.com.au/politics/nsw/this-a ($ wall)
#LoggingImpacts #loggingIndustry #NSW #NSWLogging #BiodiversityCrisis #FCNSW #MidNorthCoast #BellingenLogging #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #koalas #governance #ResourceFrontiers #SacrificeZone

The Sydney Morning Herald · ‘This activity is a real threat’: MPs piling on pressure over state’s koala park promiseBy Nick O'Malley
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BellingenNSW

The government promised a koala national park. Then their loggers moved in

"Logging inside the Great Koala National Park assessment area is four times more intense when measured by area than in nearby state forests outside the park, and environmentalists say the targeted areas are wreaking maximal environmental damage...New analysis suggests the NSW government’s own logging arm is trashing the forest inside the proposed park." >>

smh.com.au/environment/conserv ($ wall)
#logging #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSW #biodiversity #wildlife #koalas #loggingIndustry #LoggingImpacts #destruction #FCNSW #breaches #SaveTuckersNob #subsidies #bushfires #risks #crime #violence #ResourceFrontiers #offsets #ClimateEmergency #governance

The Sydney Morning Herald · The government promised a koala national park. Then the loggers moved inBy Caitlin Fitzsimmons
BellingenNSW

Halt all operations in public forests

"Margo Kingston was arrested on Thursday after locking herself on to machinery at a protest against logging in Bulga state forest in mid-north NSW."

“I’m taking this action to protect this beautiful and biodiverse forest which is full of koalas and greater gliders,” she said before her arrest."
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theguardian.com/australia-news
#loggingIndustry #NSWLogging #ProtectProtest #bulga #koalas #gliders #NatureNegative #CitizenScience #bioNet #FossilFuel #machinery #biodiversity #climate #MidNorthCoast #StopNativeForestLogging

The Guardian · Retired journalist Margo Kingston arrested at NSW anti-logging protest after allegedly locking on to machineryBy Lisa Cox
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BellingenNSW

"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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theconversation.com/dark-touri

Gumbaynggirr 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.
bellingennow.com/about/index.h

Angel Gabriel Capararo 'modernised' the Promised land.
bellingennow.com/Angel_Gabriel

Earl Preston reserve was named after a settler who arrived in 1929
bellingennow.com/Earl_Preston/

Nothing about the massacres and the poisoning to death of local Aboriginal people.

Colonial Frontier Massacres, Australia, 1788 to 1930
c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonia
howlinginfinite.com/2021/03/22
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/art
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_poi
#GumbaynggirrCountry #Bellingen #Fernmount #Gleniffer #TheDrive #MidNorthCoast #IndigenousPeoples #massacres #memorials #tourism #DarkTourism #violence #TuthTelling #denial #SettlerSociety #colonialism

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BellingenNSW

Locals
"Conviction of a Dundurrabin
landholder in Coffs Harbour Local Court on 30 August, for damaging vegetation and unlawfully clearing more than two hectares of Chaelundi State Conservation Area, northwest of Dorrigo.The Court heard that between January and November 2021, the landholder unlawfully cleared vegetation with a bulldozer, felled mature trees, and extended a fence line into Chaelundi State Conservation Area to increase his grazing area." >>
newsofthearea.com.au/landholde

Boambee Headland
to remove both a picnic table and bench. “The unauthorised repositioning of the table setting – and the laying of some 20 square metres of mulch and gravel at the cliff site – led to environmental damage in an Endangered Ecological Community of Themeda grassland.” >>
newsofthearea.com.au/surfers-i

The Nambucca Valley Conservation Association
has lodged an objection to scheduled logging in Little Newry State Forest (SF), claiming it is home to key koala habitat and that planning requirements have not been fulfilled.>>
newsofthearea.com.au/forest-ca
#Conservation #NPs #LandClearing #filibusterism #Nambucca #biodiversity #MidNorthCoast #NSWLogging #LittleNewry #koalas #biodiversity

News Of The Area · Landholders Urged To Respect Neighbouring Conservation Areas - News Of The AreaTHE NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is strongly encouraging property owners adjacent to conservation areas to contact their local Area Office for advice before they start any land management activities. It follows the conviction of a Dundurrabin landholder in Coffs Harbour Local Court on 30 August, for damaging vegetation and unlawfully clearing more...
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