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Nature News - December 2017 - Monthly e-newsletter of the National Parks Association of NSW
NPA Celebrating 60
 

We need your help in planning for NPA’s future

You are invited to complete our 2017 NPA Member survey. This is the first survey we’ve conducted since 2014. We need to hear from as many members as possible to help guide NPA’s direction and priorities over the next 5-10 years. Your input will greatly assist NPA to continue its proud history of achievement into the future.

The survey is in two parts. If you have only limited time to spare, just complete Part 1. If you have more time and would like to provide more detailed feedback, please complete Part 1, then proceed to Part 2. The survey is completely anonymous.

After completing the survey, you will have a chance to enter the draw to win a Great Koala Supporter Kit, 2018 NPA Calendar and $100 book voucher or a NSW National Parks book.

Participate in the 2017 NPA Member Survey

Events

A Spring Day in the Gardens

A Spring Day in the Gardens

Sunday 26 November | 11am - 2.30pm

Enjoy the spectacular pagoda-studded location and help raise awareness for the Gardens of Stone reserve proposal by attending A Spring Day in the Gardens banner event. 

View the event on Facebook or register through Colong Foundation

Register today
Whos living on my land

NPA Workshop: Private Land Conservation

2nd Dec, 10am-3.30pm | Adaminaby Memorial Hall, 22 York Street, Adaminaby

Learn about traditional Ngarigo Culture and land management, Landscape connectivity with the ‘Land for Wildlife’ project and how to survey your land with infrared cameras. There will be an opportunity to borrow a camera from the ‘Who’s living on my land?’ project

Free Registration online

Workshop: New Biodiversity Laws Armidale 

Monday 4 December 6pm | Tops Function Room, Armidale Bowling Club

Hosted by the Nature Conservation Council of NSW will be holding this workshop will include talks from the Environmental Defenders Office about the changes to the new laws and implications for the environment. There will also be a talk from the farming community about the importance of native vegetation and we will be letting people know where the campaign to reverse the laws go from here and how they can be involved.

Register online
Cat

Talk: Pets and Wildlife in the City 

Sat 2 December 10am | Glebe Town Hall, 160 St Johns Rd, Glebe

The City of Sydney is holding a free talk on the impacts pets can have in wildlife in the city. Topics include Professor Christopher Dickman: 'Impacts and local management of cats, dogs and foxes' and City of Sydney: 'Overview of the City's urban ecology plan'.  RSVP by 24th November

Free registration through Eventbrite
Trees in the Shire

Community Forum - Trees in the Shire

Thursday 23 Nov, 6:30pm | Club on East, 7 E Parade Sutherland

On 25 August this year, new laws came into effect for clearing trees and bushland in NSW, including the Greater Sydney area.

Come to the Sutherland Shire community forum to hear what these new laws mean for trees and bushland in the Sutherland Shire and what you can do to help protect the Shire's special natural heritage.

Register or find out more
Trees in Sydney's North

Community Forum - Trees in Sydney's North

Thursday 30 Nov, 6:30pm | Cheltenham Recreation Club, 60-74 The Cres Cheltenham

On 25 August this year, new laws came into effect for clearing trees and bushland in NSW, including the Greater Sydney area.

A community forum will be held in North Sydney to hear what these new laws mean for trees and bushland in Sydney's North and what you can do to help protect its special natural heritage.

Register or find out more

Submissions

Have Your Say

The NSW Government has released the Directions Statement for National Parks Establishment and the Draft Biodiversity Conservation Investment Strategy 2017-2037.

While it's important that these documents act in concert, NPA has serious concerns that building the national parks network is being relegated below private land investment. We urgently need to complete the CAR reserve network of public land so that our natural heritage is protected for future generations. Private land conservation, while important, can't replace the public reserve network.
See NPA's previous submission on the Directions Statement here.

Both submissions are open for public consultation until 5pm, 15 Dec
Have Your Say - Draft National Park System Directions Statement
Have Your Say - Draft Biodiversity Conservation Investment Strategy

Have Your Say: Draft District Plans

The draft Plans are a guide for implementing the draft Greater Sydney Region Plan at a District level and are a bridge between regional and local planning.

Have your say to make sure local environment issues are at the forefront of future planing. Submissions close 15 December 2017

Get involved and have your say

Have Your Say: Visitor Economy Industry Action Plan

The NSW Minister for Tourism and Major Events has launched a mid-term review of the Visitor Economy Industry Action Plan, the blueprint for NSW’s Visitor Economy.

National Parks are a key part of NSW's tourist economy and they need to be adequately funded and open for everyone, while also ensuring nature is prioritised national parks remain development free.

Have your say

Other News

Rewilding Australia Quoll

Rewilding Australia Network

Rewilding Australia has just launched the ‘Australian Rewilding Network’. This will provide a platform for rewilding projects across Australia to upload their project information and display it on an interactive map. 

Find out more
NSW National Parks

Book: NSW National Parks

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service has published a new book to celebrate their 50th anniversary. It’s called ‘NSW National Parks’ and features over 150 gorgeous colour and black and white images and wildlife illustrations. Buy it for $38 from the NSW Government Shop  and NPWS Visitor Centres. Be quick, before it sells out.

Purchase online

Upcoming Environmental History Courses


Gardens of Stone: How Can We Save It?

WEA, Sydney | Monday 12 February, 2018, 12.15-1.15 pm |  $18
For over 80 years people have extolled the outstanding beauty of the Gardens of Stone, situated in Sydney’s backyard and next door to the Blue Mountains World Heritage area. So why are the Gardens of Stone’s globally significant pagodas collapsing? Why are its rare highland swamps dying? How can this precious area be protected and the local economy supported?   NPA WEA Course, WEA House, 72 Bathurst Street, a short walk from Town Hall railway station. Tutor: Janine Kitson. Bookings essential.  Contact WEA, SYDNEY  Ph: (02) 9264 2781  E: info@weasydney.nsw.edu.au  www.weasydney.com.au


Understorey and the Battle to Save NSW’s Forests

WEA,Sydney | Thursday 15 February, 2018, 6pm-7.30pm | $28
David Gallan’s documentary film Understorey reveals how a few dedicated conservationists in the 1960s gallantly campaigned to save NSW’s South-East native forests from the export woodchip industry. Enjoy viewing a film that captures the beauty, fragility and poignancy of wildlife living in the forest and how the film shows with such clarity that wildlife cannot survive without their forest. Discussion on forest protection will follow the viewing of this film.  NPA WEA Course, WEA House, 72 Bathurst Street, a short walk from Town Hall railway station. Tutor: Janine Kitson. Bookings essential.  Contact WEA, SYDNEY  Ph: (02) 9264 2781  E:info@weasydney.nsw.edu.au  www.weasydney.com.au
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