The Murwillumbah Makers and Finders Market, Saturday 21st of December
The Wollumbin Caldera
Text in progress, apologies. —— A ‘Caldera’ is the geographical remnant of an extinct volcano. … the soft red volcanic soil washed away over eons, revealing the circular landscape feature of the outer wall of the caldera, formed from a harder magna material inducted below the surface, with the central hardstone ‘plug’ of the volcano…
Find Us
Find Us – Archived The Caldera Environment Centre and Shop have lost our 4 Queen Street Murwillumbah leased building. We are seeking alternative accomodation. Phone: Our landline is no longer active. Email: caldera@calderaenvironmentcentre.org Web: http://calderaenvironmentcentre.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/calderaenvironmentcentre CEC Shop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calderaenvironmentcentreshop/ Post: PO Box 5090 South Murwillumbah NSW 2484
Tweed Shire Council Monthly Public Meeting Agenda and Minutes (links)
Birdlife Northern Rivers
Public education plays an important role in what we [Birdlife Northern Rivers] do. We have placed signs at important roosting, feeding and breeding sites from the Tweed River in the north, to the Port Macquarie coast and at inland areas identifying significant Regent Honeyeater habitat. Additional signs, posters and Bird Routes brochures have been developed…
EDO:
“… an important update … Sadly, the court dismissed our arguments, meaning that the approvals are valid, and the loggers are free to move into this still-recovering habitat once again.” “Earlier this year, the Forestry Corporation of NSW began logging the Myrtle and Braemar state forests which provide critical habitat for endangered koalas in the…
Nightcap National Park: Going Back in Time, Birdwatching in an Ancient Rainforest
Update Regarding Caravan Park proposed on Pottsville Koala habitat
Notice from proponent’s lawyers, 3rd April 2024, an on-site “… conciliation conference under section 34 of the Land and Environment Court Act 1979 (Conciliation Conferen… If the matter is not resolved at the Conciliation Conference, the matter will proceed to a hearing at a date to be fixed.” ———- Development Application no. DA23/0302 (112 sites,…
NCC: “Habitat clearing – the elephant in the bush”
The Nature Conservation Council: “50 million trees. More emissions than Sydney, every year! This is the devastating impact of habitat clearing across NSW. Help us [NCC, Nature Conservation Council] end this destruction. We are lucky to live amongst some of the most unique and diverse ecosystems on the planet. For tens of thousands of years,…
Picnic for Nature, Chillingham
Community Information Session, ‘Cudgen Connection’
Despite this subject development proposal being prohibited on State Significant Farmland (SSF), and promises there would be no further development on the Cudgen Plateau SSF the Cudgen Connection proposed development has come to life yet again. Proposed development: “As you are aware we have a proposal for a $300M+ health, education and essential worker housing precinct for…
Recommended Website: NEFA – the North East Forest Aliance
The Caldera Environment Centre “Still the best Environmental Bookshop in the Northern Rivers” will be at the Mur’bah Makers and Finders Market, Knox Park, third Saturday each month.
Tweed Shire Council – Conservation Strategy: Help shape the future of the Tweed’s natural environment.
A draft of the Tweed Shire Council Conservation Strategy is now available for review. “The Conservation Strategy will guide Tweed Shire Council’s actions to protect, improve, collaborate and adapt to conserve the Tweed’s natural environment for future years to come. “Help shape the future of the Tweed’s natural environment by providing feedback on the draft…
Climate Changers film screening & Q&A Regent Theatre Murwillumbah
The film ‘Climate Changers’ follows Australian scientist and conservationist Tim Flannery in his global search for leadership on climate change. Watch the trailer here (link) “The screening is part of a national event on September 17th, which will see audiences at more than 30 cinemas across the country watch the film together and join a…
TSC asks your input to the Coast and Estuaries Coastal Management Program
Zombie Developments: Communities Organise to Stop Developments Approved Decades Ago
Many of these developments were approved decades ago, avoiding environmental, cultural heritage and other impact assessments that are required today. “Communities right along the length of the NSW coast are fighting to protect sensitive coastal bushland and villages from dozens of inappropriate developments that will change our beautiful coast forever if allowed to go ahead.…
Bob Brown: “The Logging Must End.”
CEC Facebook
What is “ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY”?
Sustainability is … CONTINUABILITY, the ability of something to sustain, to continue. The Environment is … the whole of NATURE, the Ecology, the systems of inter-related, inter-dependent lifeforms on this planet. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IS THE ABILITY OF NATURE TO CONTINUE. Nature organically sustains itself through time, naturally regenerating and continuing to exist. For hundreds of…
UPDATE: EDO / NEFA Legal Action to Stop Myrtle and Braemar State Forests Logging
EDO: “… a quick update on our case to stop logging operations in vital koala habitat in north-east NSW and share some positive news. On Wednesday 2 August, EDO lawyers went to the NSW Land and Environment Court, seeking an urgent injunction to stop logging in Myrtle and Braemar state forests. Our client, the North…
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NEFA: Logging suspended in Myrtle and Braemar State Forests until court case
“The North East Forest Alliance has taken the NSW Forestry Corporation to court in an effort to save the homes of Koalas, and 23 other threatened species, including the Southern Greater Glider, Yellow-bellied Glider, Rufous Bettong, Masked Owl and Squirrel Glider. NEFA has engaged the Environmental Defenders Office to commence legal proceedings in the NSW…
Rally at MP Justine Eliot’s Office for Native Forests, 11 August
Terri Nicholson – A Singer-Songwriter of the Caldera
Note: The sound files here were recorded at the Caldera World Environment Day event 2023.
Terri: “Growing up surrounded by the Terania rainforest, as well as the knowledge that it was the community’s activism that had protected it from logging, provides a deep appreciation and courage.”
Terri sings both her own songs and the songs of the forest protests of that time. “Keeping the songs of the forest protests alive feels important for the continuity of story and commitment to native forest protection.”
Terri: “Growing up in an activist family of rainforest lovers … I stand for environmental sustainability and conscious aware relationships (with self and others and the earth) … I value NATURE. The beauty, intricacy and interconnected reality that we are the earth, as it is us … Guided by a sense of ecological-self, always in deep reverence and relationship with the living earth.”
World Environment Day Festival 2023
Knox Park Murwillumbah, Sunday July 16th. Hosted by the Caldera Environment Centre in conjunction with community environmental groups from around the region. The event gives local environmental organisations an arena to bring attention to their issues and their actions, plus Guest Speakers, plus performance entertainment. Our event promotes sustainability and the protection of the natural…
Tweed Shire Council Sponsors the Caldera World Environment Day Festival, Knox Park Murwillumbah, 16th July!
Historically and again this year the Tweed Shire Council, under the Community Events Grants Scheme, has Sponsored the Caldera World Environment Day Festival, Knox Park Murwillumbah. This year (16th July 2023) the Caldera Environment Centre again invite people from not only the Tweed Caldera but also from the surrounding regions, Kyogle Shire, Byron Shire and…
Renew Fest’s 24hr Vigil for Grief, for Love, for the Earth [!]
Renew Fest’s 24hr Vigil for Grief, 4pm Saturday to 4pm Sunday 29th-30th July 2023, Fig Tree Grove, Mullumbimby Showground. This event is a free open-air cathedral, arts-infused, quiet contemplative space to honour and give respect to personal and collective grief and all that grief brings to the fore to feel… to heal… to love… and to…
