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.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/rare-glossy-black-cockatoo-nests-found-in-northern-nsw/102795868

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

Newry State forest - Anti-logging protest enters second week
Anti-logging protesters near Coffs Harbour, on the New South Wales north coast, say an area being logged in the Newry State forest contains sacred sites and endangered species.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/video/anti-logging-protest-enters-second-week/g6o6mcn7l

'It's killing our songlines' - traditional owners protest against logging
Podcast & transcipt
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast-episode/its-killing-our-songlines-traditional-owners-protest-against-logging/4p2pwob17
#Logging #biodiversity #Gumbaynggirr #FirstNationspeople #CoffsHarbour #NewryStateForest #SacredSites #EndangeredSpecies #koalas

The New South Wales Government has ranked last out of every state and federal government in combating deforestation.

"Approved plans for forestry operations at Newry State Forest were made active last week. Newry State Forest holds cultural importance to the Gumbaynggirr people."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-03/wwf-ranks-nsw-government-last-australia-combating-deforestation/102683524
#climate #logging #NSW #CoffsHarbour #NewryStateForest #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #Gumbaynggirr #climate #biodiversity

Protecting Koalas through habitat restoration on private land
"A growing human population, particularly in areas along Australia’s east coast, has led to large-scale clearing of better-quality koala habitats with many koala populations struggling within smaller, fragmented patches of poorer quality habitat. Other threats, such as drought, fire, climate change, disease, vehicle strike and dog attack are further impacting koala populations."

"The North Coast Local Land Services "is seeking expressions of interest (EOIs) from landowners interested in protecting key koala habitat in the Coffs Harbour and the northern section of Bellingen local government areas, a location identified as an Area of Regional Koala Significance (ARKS)."
https://www.lls.nsw.gov.au/regions/north-coast/financial-assistance/protecting-koalas-through-habitat-restoration

Map - Coffs Harbour and North Bellingen Area of Regional Koala Significance
https://www.lls.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/1470249/CoffsHarbour_NorthBellingen-ARKS-New-Report-Grey.pdf

#Koalas #wildlife #habitat #restoration #biodiversity #suburbia #cars #vehicles #roads #roadkill #pets #dogs #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #biodiversity #extinction

Images:
Left - Koala sign in Toormina, Koalas have multiple lanes of speeding cars to cross. Most suburban homes have metal fences that koalas can not climb.

Right - Koala sign on wildlife corridor knocked down by cars within the first week of being erected. The sign was stolen and the metal pole stood there for month as a dangerous obstacle. Now the metal pole has disappeared. Bellingen, Roses Road.

"Two men employed by a third party contractor for the Forestry Corporation of New South Wales have pleaded not guilty to charges of assault against two environmentalists on the state's mid north coast. "
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-14/third-party-employees-nsw-forestry-assault-not-guilty-pleas/102479456
#CoffsHarbour #Environmentalists #WildCattleCreek #StateForest #Violence

Stop #Logging the Great #Koala National Park
Friends of Pine Creek,
A group of citizens committed to protecting the natural and cultural values of #PineCreek #StateForest on the #MidNorthCoast of NSW, Australia
https://friendsofpinecreek.com/
#PineCreek #BongilBongilNationalPark #CoffsHarbour #GKNP #BindarriNationalPark #GumbaynggirrLand #ClimateAction

Stop logging in the Great Koala National Park
"17% of state forests planned for the Great #Koala National Park could be logged in the next 12 months. Of the 175,000ha of #StateForests that constitutes the GKNP proposal (green) Forestry Corporation NSW plans to log over 17% in the next 12 months (red), including some of the most important koala habitat in NSW (white). Your taxes are being spent to pay for it."
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https://koalapark.nature.org.au/
#Bellingen #Roads #BellingenLogging #CoffsHarbour #Sawtell #GKNP #PanicLogging #Biodiversity #ExtinctionCrisis

The collapse of #insects
“Nature is just eroding away very slowly. As insects disappear we’re losing the limbs and the twigs of the tree of life. We’re tearing it apart. And we’re leaving behind a very simplified and ugly tree.”
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-APOCALYPSE/egpbykdxjvq/
#Pollinators #Food #Biodiversity #Conservation ##Pesticide Concrete #Sprawl
Image: Sign in #CoffsHarbour: Bug Eater

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Australia's extinction crisis
#Extinction is a choice

"On the 4 August 2022, the Senate agreed to the committee's recommendation that this inquiry formally known as Australia's faunal #ExtinctionCrisis be re-adopted in the 47th Parliament for inquiry and report by 28 June 2023"

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/ExtinctionCrisis
#Habitat #Destruction #Laws ThreatenedSpecies #EnvironmentalAttitudes #Pets #Dogs #Cats #Wildlife #Conservation #Biodiversity
Image: Seen in #CoffsHarbour

THE BIG BLUEBERRY
The #CoffsHarbour Pacific #Highway Bypass and the Gondwana #Rainforests
https://www.echo.net.au/2023/01/protecting-remnant-gondwana-species-at-grandpas-scrub-today/
failed #biodiversity offset process #Coffs #roads #roads and more #traffic

Alex #Floyd was the co-founded the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden in #Coffs Harbour. He is described by colleagues as "one of the great field #botanists of the day"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-23/botanist-alex-floyd-remembered-memorial-coffs-harbour/101880186
#CoffsHarbour #botany #flora #NSW #Rainforest Trees #conservation

With a lot of #cement and #fossilfuel #CoffsHarbour will get an offshore artificial #reef. It might alleviate the large waves crashing over #Coffs Harbour's North Wall due to #climatechange.

#ArtificialReef NSW:
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/recreational/resources/artificial-reef

See Sydney #construction site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdDU6pXgwdQ

#Ocean #clutter #tourism #anthropocene #climate #marine #wildlife

Christmas in #CoffsHarbour

#VintagePostcard
Coffs Harbour NSW
Dated 14th March 1975

Sent from Phillip to his Nan (and David). Phillip had so far been bogged in 3 feet of mud, had two punctures and been fined $20 for doing 114 in a 100 zone but was otherwise having a grouse time and was on his way to Brisbane.

I can't lie, I bought this one for the socks.
#CoffsHarbour #NewSouthWales #Postcard #History

Love the Coffs Harbour Botanical Gardens! Spotted this fella yesterday. #koalas #CoffsHarbour

Thanks for sticking with me while I made a half arse attempt to move servers over the weekend.

You know those occasions where you have a spirt of thought, but the energy kills it? Yeah that did it.

I was working from #CoffsHarbour Thu-Sat