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
BEACH WALK FOR YES THIS SUNDAY
Walk for YES This Sunday
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
CEC Membership Application
Your membership adds weight to our organisation’s voice as we seek to influence Cultural, Council and government decision making to better protect and enhance the natural environment of the Caldera. Thank you for your support in this. For information about our concerns and our activities our website is www.calderaenvironmentcentre.org 3 Year Membership, Family $20, Single $15,…
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.”
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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…
Deep Ecology Workshop
HISTORIC PROTEST ACROSS COFFS COAST NATIVE FORESTS
Two HSC students have locked themselves to a cement filled barrel and a third HSC student has locked on to logging machinery to prevent logging operations in Orara East State Forest. A few kilometres away in Boambee State Forest two grandmothers have halted logging machinery by locking themselves to the arm of a harvester. A tree-climber has…
Green drinks and discussion – supporting the CEC
The Stone & Wood Brewery in Byron Bay hosted the July 30th Green drinks and discussion event. This is a bi-monthly social events to bring together like-minded people to have conversations about environmental and social justice issues, a chance to network together to see how we can all be part of the solution to the…
Blackbutt Lookout Picnic Area
“Blackbutt lookout picnic area in Border Ranges National Park is a popular picnic area next to a scenic lookout offering views of Tweed Valley. “Please note: Consider having reasonably full fuel tanks before arriving as there are no service stations near the park. The closest fuel is at Kyogle, Nimbin or Mount Burrell. This park…
Cudgen Nature Reserve
“Escape the Tweed Coast crowds and head to Cudgen Nature Reserve. Great for school excursions, with opportunities for fishing, canoeing, picnicking and birdwatching. “Visit Cudgen Nature Reserve and you’ll quickly leave the hectic Tweed Coast behind, as you surround yourself in a mosaic of beauty and contrasting landscapes. It’s a modest reserve, but it’s packed…
Wollumbin-Mount Warning National Park
“In the hinterland, between Tweed Heads and Byron Bay, World-Heritage-listed Wollumbin National Park is a great place to walk or picnic. “Wollumbin, which rises from World Heritage-listed Wollumbin National Park to a height of 1,157 metres above sea level, is a remnant central vent of an ancient volcano. Formerly known as Mount Warning, this spectacular…
Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk
Where: Chowan Creek. “Experience the remarkable Gidjuum Gulganyi Walk, a 42km multi-day adventure through the Tweed Byron Hinterland on Bundjalung Nation. Weave through the ancient volcanic landscape and Gondwanan rainforest of Mount Jerusalem National Park, Whian Whian State Conservation Area and Nightcap National Park on this 3-night, 4-day walk. Marvel at the magnificent scenery of…
The Caldera Rim Walk
NSW.gov have created “a master plan for the Caldera Rim Walk in Wollumbin National Park. A proposed 8km (return) half-day bushwalk and associated facilities in Wollumbin National Park. The walk is a Grade 4 hiking track in accordance with the Australian Walking Track Grading system, offering a challenge to bush walkers, climbing over 500m in…
NEFA News: 70% support ban logging of native forests, 22% don’t know and just 8% support logging
nefanews: A new poll of 4,000 Australians shows that most want logging of native forests to stop. Australians were supportive of introducing new policies that could help protect biodiversity. The vast majority of people (80% or higher) support or strongly support: restoring water to wetlands and rivers increasing fines for people caught smuggling illegal wildlife…
ABC: NSW EPA staff lack basic equipment for forestry inspections, report finds
Bob Brown Foundation: Nationwide Days of Action to Stop Native Forest Logging in Australia
BBF: “Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed the emergence of an incredible opportunity to protect native forests nationally. Victoria is fast-tracking an end to native forest logging before 2024. We will use this momentum to build towards an end to native forest logging nationwide, and we need you with us. We have never been at…
End Native Forest Logging Now
FLASHBACK: North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) Campaigner, Susie Russell – Arrested!
Long-time forest campaigner and NEFA spokesperson, Susie Russell, was arrested today at Bulga State Forest and given bail conditions prohibiting her from entering into any part of the Bulga Forest. Report by SEAN O’SHANNESSY: The arrest came as the Save Bulga Forest community ramped up their campaign of civil disobedience calling for an end to…
FLYWAYS – The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds, The Regent Theatre, Murwillumbah, SUN June 18, 5:45pm
“Reaching out to let you know of the beautiful new documentary FLYWAYS – The Untold Journey of Migratory Shorebirds, from Award-Winning Australian filmmaker Randall Wood. “FLYWAYS is now touring Australia for a limited season and is playing at The Regent, Murwillumbah, on SUN June 18 @ 5:45pm. Watch the trailer on . “FLYWAYSexplores the extraordinary journey of…
Nightcap National Park
NSWNPWS website: Ground-breaking protests at Terania Creek in the late 1970’s paved the way for the park’s creation and international recognition as a Gondwana Rainforest World Heritage site in 1986. Nightcap National Park’s rainforests are part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area, the largest area of subtropical rainforest in the world. They are a…
The STONE & WOODS all of June Promotion of the Caldera World Environment Day Festival
The Caldera Environment Centre World Environment Day Festival is the Stone & Woods Tasting Room Community Grants Recipient for the month of June ! [!!!] $1 per litre of beer sold at the Byron brewery Tasting Room over the entire month of June will go to the Caldera World Environment Day Festival, Knox Murwillumbah, Sunday…
NCC: Don’t let them log the Great Koala National Park
NCC: “You might have heard that after a decade of community pressure the new Labor government committed to establishing the Great Koala National Park (GKNP). This is great news! [However, … ] The GKNP was developed by leading scientists, ecologists and local environmental groups, who identified the most important areas of koala habitat in NSW. All…
Win for native forests in Victoria!
EDO: “Great news for forests and wildlife! This week the Victorian Government announced it will end native forest logging in the State by the end of this year. This is a crucial win for nature and people. Native forests are vital habitat for threatened wildlife, they clean the air we breathe, and are critical…
Kinship Festival, Knox Park Sunday 27th May
Murwillumbah Facing Up: How do we live in the midst of the climate and ecological crisis?
Regent Theatre with Tim Hollo, AYCC Krysta & DirtGirl: Systems Change for Planetary Survival. Notes from the event (Brian). Tim – “Abandon hope that the current system can save us.” – “… it must be the end of the world as we know it.” – The cycle of everything is growth, conservation of form, collapse, reorganisation.” …
Historic Legacy Developments
A current Council meeting agenda item is the already approved though not acted upon historical Legacy Development Approvals which would not meet today’s DA requirements, and if anything can be done to bring legacy developments consents into line with current development standards. From the TSC Meeting May 18 Agenda: “The NSW Planning system has created…
Tweed Conservation Zone Review
TS Council are inviting landowners and the community to provide their feedback on the draft Planning Proposal PP23/0001 which is the first in a series of planning proposals that will apply conservation zones across the whole of the Tweed. It proposes to amend the Tweed Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 2014 by adding in the planning controls…
The easiest way to reduce net emissions by 2030 is that we “reduce the conversion of forests and other ecosystems.” (IPCC)
Time to stop Logging Koalas to Extinction
NEFA MEDIA RELEASE: The North East Forest Alliance is calling on people to take action to protect one of the most important Koala habitats on the Richmond River Lowlands in response to the Forestry Corporation commencing logging in Braemar State Forest (south of Casino). Four days after the election of the Minns Government the Forestry…
Youth Tweed Event
NEFA LEAF May 2023
The Latest Edition of the North East Forest Alliance NEFA LEAF news update. The most informative publication of what’s going on with native forest protection in our area. NEFA: “It’s been a huge start to the year with communities rising up to protect what’s left of our precious native forests. Check out our events below…
Submissions were made to the Review of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Points the National Parks Association of NSW petitioned for included asking for stronger laws to protect nature in NSW: “We need laws that actually protected the most precious species, habitats and landscapes, not discredited offset schemes that end up paying blood money to government agencies instead of protecting nature. Real laws mean a red line,…
Regent Movie: The Message of the Lyrebird
Tweed Landcare is hosting a screening of the award-winning film The Message of the Lyrebird. Lyrebirds hold the history of the forest in their song… but are they now singing the sad story of human encroachment? Set in a natural wonderland where an exquisite forest faery has been performing astonishing song and dance routines for 18…
Singleton Redbank Native Forest Biomass power station news
Hello [from AFCA]. Just letting you know that [we] spoke to Singleton Council yesterday re Verdant and Redbank. The Council did not know about the removal of NF biomass as an eligible source of renewable energy from the RE Act regs so I sent them the attached announcement from Bowen. Verdant has not submitted a new…