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Syulang · @Syulang
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NITV - Gumbaynggirr Elders are leading a protest against logging on sacred sites

is moving in on state forest, near Urunga, on Gumbaynggirr lands. Elders and activists are leading protest and trying to raise awareness. Please do all you can to help. As usual, Forestry Corp is playing fast and light with the law, and police were already at the site when people arrived.

"They were met with fencing and a contingent of police and fire officers, who doused a sacred fire lit by the protesters, before semi-trailers loaded with stripped logs drove out of the forest."

Newry is part of the highly endangered Gondawanan subtropical coastal/lowland rainforests - some of the oldest and most diverse forests in Australia, and some of the oldest on Earth.

Newry is a sacred site to the Gumbaynggirr for mens ritual, and many individual trees are culturally significant or sacred in their own right.

Forestry Corp NSW is entirely owned by the NSW Government, and has a history of blatantly breaking the laws it is supposed to operate under. Their operations have made consistent losses for years, requiring taxpayer subsidies in order to ensure the killing of our native rainforests can continue. Without these subsidies, it would stop.

Forestry Corp only exists because we allow it to.

sbs.com.au/nitv/article/gumbay

#forestrycorp #newry #auspol #nswpol #ecocide #greatkoalanationalpark #logging #forestry #newsouthwales #coffscoast #urunga

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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
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Water Alert
'Water samples taken on 30/01/23 at Dalhousie Creek & Baths indicate “Bad” water quality. Samples at & Lagoon showed “Poor” quality."
bellingen.nsw.gov.au/Home
bad bad

#mylestom #arthurkeoghreserve #urunga #water #contamination #sewage #chemicals #pollution #bellingen #hungryhead #postholidayseason #bad

Last updated 2 years ago
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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
43 followers · 170 posts · Server mastodon.au
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#swimming #faecal #bellingen #pollution #tourism #overtourism #nevernever #arthurkeoghreserve #bellinger #hungryhead #beach #urunga #enterococcus #yuck #pets #pet #dog #excrements #runoff #nappies #bello #riverwatch #conservation #wildlife #turtle #platypus

Last updated 2 years ago
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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
34 followers · 135 posts · Server mastodon.au
ABC News - Blue Mountains City Council to introduce parking fees at Bondi rates for towns, natural attractions

Tourist sites and natural attractions earmarked for fees. "Tourist buses (and cars) that come thundering up and down our all day, every day, don't pay anything, but our ratepayers cover it, so it's about bringing in some balance”
abc.net.au/news/2023-01-25/blu
River etc

#parking #roads #bellingen #tourism #nevernever #arthurkeoghreserve #bellinger #hungryhead #urunga

Last updated 2 years ago
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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
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ABC News - Yellow-tailed black cockatoos spotted in large numbers in northern NSW as the birds head to urban areas

Yellow-tailed black spotted in large numbers in northern NSW as the head to urban areas. Changes in natural habitat and urban expansion had influenced the behavioural patterns of certain bird species.if we do start losing more of our hollow-bearing trees they could easily decline very quickly.
abc.net.au/news/2023-01-14/yel land clearing

#cockatoos #birds #urunga #bellingen

Last updated 2 years ago
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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
19 followers · 66 posts · Server mastodon.au
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Wanted! Reward! - Seen in

#urunga

Last updated 2 years ago
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BellingenNSW · @Bellingen
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The Conversation - When we swim in the ocean, we enter another animal's home. Here's how to keep us all safe

Sharing a with nesting shorebirds. They nest in spring and summer. This is prime beach time for people, too. nests are shallow and vulnerable, and birds will often abandon their eggs when humans are around. and pose an even bigger threat. theconversation.com/when-we-sw

#beach #shorebird #dogs #4wds #birds #urunga #hungryhead #wildlife #habitat

Last updated 2 years ago
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Gethin Coles · @geth
241 followers · 484 posts · Server aus.social
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Urunga, at the end of its boardwalk has this breakwall. Milky way behind some clouds

#milkyway #nightphotograpy #nswmidnorthcoast #urunga #midnorthcoast #WhereILive

Last updated 2 years ago
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Gethin Coles · @geth
106 followers · 216 posts · Server aus.social
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I have a thing about blurry/abstract landscape pics. This one taken at

#hungryhead #urunga #moon #landsacape #midnorthcoast

Last updated 2 years ago
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Gethin Coles · @geth
106 followers · 216 posts · Server aus.social
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Another taken from the boardwalk here in

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

#phoneography #snap #urunga #midnorthcoast #australia #godrays #crepuscular #clouds

Last updated 2 years ago
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NormH · @normh2
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#urunga #urungaboardwalk #urungalido #fujifilm #xpro2 #xf27 #repostmyfujifilm #myfujilove #lifeat27mm #fujifilmxpro2 #fujinon27mm #failed_hippy

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