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.
This is the latest in a series of pictorial reports documenting the destruction of koala and other fauna habitat in the Gibberagee State Forest, north of Grafton. These reports have been prompted by the failure of ministers, their departments, and regulatory authorities, to respond to pleas to protect this significant ecological asset.
The Clarence Environment Centre has been lobbying State and Federal Governments to protect resident Koalas in the above forest from planned logging operations for over 5 months. Again, the Clarence Environment Centre calls for an immediate halt to the destruction of koala habitat at Gibberagee, and an end to all logging in public forests as a matter of urgency.
In November 2019, the Liberation Trail bushfire decimated the Nymboida area, destroying more than 50 homes. The environmental damage was enormous, made worse by what is arguably the worst drought in the close to 200 years of white occupation of the area. That prolonged drought, combined with record high temperatures and heatwaves, saw moisture content of vegetation at such low levels that living trees were reduced to charcoal.