Australia’s environment must be given legal priority over land-clearing and logging to survive, Ken Henry

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/25/dr-ken-henry-environment-land-clearing-logging
#logging #NativeForest #StopLogging #NSW #BellingenLogging #NewryStateForest #TuckersNobStateForest #biodiversity #climate

Nature in Australia is in desperate trouble
End broad-scale land clearing and native forest logging.

"Across the nation, 500,000 hectares or more of land are cleared annually.
For every 100 hectares of native woodland cleared,
about 2000 birds,
15,000 reptiles and
500 native mammals will die." 

"Land clearing and native forest logging exacerbate climate change.."

"We urge you to commit, and act, to end broad-scale land clearing and native forest logging in this term of government. Ending extinction, limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius and reversing nature’s decline depends on it."

"The mission to recover nature can only be fully realised by respecting the rights and honouring the knowledge of First Peoples in land management and forest stewardship."
https://www.endlandclearing.org.au/

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Bellingen - Tuckers Nob proposed logging/ clear felling Compartments 26/27

Meeting at
Gleniffer Hall
Thursday 17 of August at 6 pm

#logging #NSW #Bellingen #BellingenLogging #GKNP #Biodiversity #wildlife #climate #care #ecocide #TuckersNobStateForest #SaveTuckersKnob

Worldwide there is a growing commitments to swimmable rivers and clean natural waterways.
https://theconversation.com/olympic-swimming-in-the-seine-highlights-efforts-to-clean-up-city-rivers-worldwide-210714

The case of Bellingen's scenic swimming hole
Bellingen just smashed in a "$5.2M “gate way to the Promised Land” so that mass tourism can speed along the new 'highway' (Gleniffer Road) to the Never Never Creek. It is the town's main 'tourist destination' (but has no public toilet).

In January the Promised Land swimming hole near Bellingen recorded faecal contamination of water. "Council advised swimmers to stay out of the Never Never River.” Humans and dogs were blamed for the faecal matter. "It has been very popular over the holiday period and there are certainly indications that people have been using the riparian area there along the banks for toileting purposes”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-18/promised-land-swimming-hole-bellingen-faecal-contamination/101844606

“Tell the city you want your river back”
https://popupcity.net/insights/the-renaissance-of-urban-swimming/

#swimming #SwimmingHole #Bellingen #rivers #OverTourism #SocialMedia #roads #traffic #climate #holidays #stormwater #wastewater #runoff #dogs #pets #EnterococcusBacteria #FecalContamination #ArthurKeoghReserve #NeverNeverRiver #ThePromisedLand #TheDrive #TuckersNobStateForest #wildlife #biodiversity