This week we have a chance to call for urgent change to forestry in NSW. Signing a petition is a simple action that’s part of the long struggle to protect public native forests. We can’t afford to let the devastation of ecosystems and habitat go on. And we can’t afford to spend millions of taxpayerContinue reading “NSW Native Forest Destruction”
Tag Archives: Koalas
Help protect healthy koala colony
Members of Save Sydney Koalas have been working for years in many ways to protect the healthy koala colony in south west Sydney. They know what will save the koalas and they’re calling on the NSW parliament to listen to the scientists and the local community and move quickly.
New Koala film
Last week Sydney Knitting Nannas went to Parliament House for the launch of a film KOALAS – the hard truths by Simon Reeves. Now the film is available for all to see on YouTube. Please watch this 18 minute film about the threats to koalas from dogs, cars and the loss of habitat due toContinue reading “New Koala film”
#Fridays4Forests
Sydney Knitting Nannas joined #Fridays4Forests and #SaveSydneyKoalas outside Parliament House on Friday for the first #Fridays4Forests gathering in Sydney.
Koala Action
On 23 March the upper house of the state parliament will debate the creation of the Great Koala National Park on the mid North Coast. 175,000 hectares of public forest protected forever to save koalas and other species. Please call an upper house MP for a chat about saving koalas, and ask them to supportContinue reading “Koala Action”
Sydney Koalas
The Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends have been concerned for some time with the Lendlease housing development at Mt Gilead known as Figtree Hill. We believe that this development could have a disastrous effect on the Campbelltown koala colony, the only thriving, chlamydia-free koala population in NSW.
Nannas push for koala corridor
Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends have been concerned for some time about Lendlease’s housing developments on the Gilead estate near Campbelltown and their effect on the local koala population.
Protect Sydney Koala Colony
The fate of the precious koala colony on the Cumberland Plain now rests with NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes and Environment Minister Matt Kean.
Act to Protect Sydney’s Koalas
The Figtree Hill housing development by Lendlease has been given permission to clear trees and dewater dams on the koala corridor between the Nepean and George’s rivers and on to the Blue Mountains.
Nannas at Koala Day of Action
Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends joined other environmental groups on Saturday for the Koala Day of Action rally in Hyde Park to keep pressure on politicians to protect habitat across the state.