Assessments 2025 - CRG Sediment Testing - Water Quality Testing - Tucabia Flora Reserve - Events - LfWCV on iNaturalist - FrogID - Nesting Boxes - Bats In Backyards - BCT Grants - Your Land for Wildlife Membership
• Land for Wildlife Assessments 2024-25 • Water Quality Testing starts in Lower Clarence • Protecting The Clarence from Mineral Mining • BCT Grants • Conservation Connections delayed • Land for Wildlife Membership
• Land for Wildlife Assessments in 2024 • Tree Planting workshop with Pete Turland • Maclean Nursery Mural Unveiled • Friends of Koala • Tree Tro ® Project • Cane Toads on the Move • BCT Grants • Your Land for Wildlife Membership
Despite constant reports that the turbidity levels in the Nymboida River after rain are too high to allow extraction to occur, we’ve never heard a complaint from either council about forestry practices, including their being leased for grazing. Even the announcement by Forests NSW in 2015, that they intended to undertake intensive logging of some forests, i.e., clear-felling, there was no complaint. Then again total silence in 2019 when the State Government changed the Integrated Forests Operations Approval, halving the width of buffer zones along all mapped gullies and creeks, allowing logging to occur to within 5m of smaller waterways.
Fundamentally, we believe there has been an overallocation of licensed extraction in the Orara River which occurred without due consideration of the harvestable rights of all properties along that river for domestic and stock purposes. The Clarence WSP appears to be trying to mask the problems that water extraction poses for that river by including it in a broad, catchment-wide water sharing plan. The CEC believes that the Clarence WSP is also flawed by the lack of lack of fine detail in defining the extraction management units, which has allowed the dealing (or trading) in water access licences between disparate sub-catchments and micro-catchments.
The CEC has long been a vocal critic of Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW), and its previous manifestations as a state government agency known as Forests NSW, State Forests of NSW and the Forestry Commission of NSW. This corporation, irrespective of its name and corporate branding, continues to blatantly conduct an unacceptable and unsustainable assault on the publicly owned native forest estate. This assault has continued for more than half a century since the widespread adoption of industrial logging practices.
In about 2016, with the endangered Phyllanthus now being smothered by Cat’s Claw once again, the Environment Department’s Saving our Species team became involved, providing funding to clear weeds from the immediate surrounds of the 4 known sub-populations at the site. This saw the Clarence environment Centre involved once again with its professional bush regeneration team contracted to carry out the work.
Caring for Catchments grants New LfW property at Dundurrabin Tree Troffs® out in the wild LfW field day
On Monday 6th May a delegation of concerned citizens walked into an active logging site within the promised Great Koala National Park to bear witness to the wanton destruction of significantly important tall eucalypt forest and wildlife habitat that is currently being undertaken by the NSW Forestry Corporation.
Late on Sunday 13th August, a bushfire started on a property south of Dilkoon Creek. Hundreds of hectares of Glossy Black-Cockatoo feed habitat destroyed with that habitat unlikely to recover for at least 7 or 8 years. The resident Koalas will have been impacted, and while animals that managed to find a tall tree could have survived this fire, the scorching of leaves is likely to make feed unpalatable for weeks to come.