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20.01.2022 The two largest Moodjar trees in the world - and Main Roads want to cut them down without approval to do so. Join us to defend this beautiful place from destruction. Call Minister Saffioti and speak your mind. 6552-5500

13.01.2022 Seedlings of Eucalyptus gomphocephala (tuart) are taller when grown in the spoil heap soil, produced by the foraging activities of the Southern brown bandicoot ... (Isoodon obesulus), compared with seedlings grown in undug soil and soil collected from the pit-base. Photo: Leonie Valentine. https://www.researchgate.net//266392040_Ecosystem_services See more

12.01.2022 BREAKING An independent report finds Australia's environment protection laws are grossly mismanaged and failing to actually protect nature. This report is a s...cathing indictment of the Federal Government’s administration of our national environment law and highlights why we need a stronger law and a new independent regulator. The Auditor-General found that: the department’s approach is not effective and not proportionate to environmental risk. the department does not monitor or report on the effectiveness or efficiency of its regulation the department has effectively stopped documenting how the decisions it recommends would deliver environmental outcomes. failures of training and internal policy are leading to poor and unlawful decision making, including conflicts of interest not being managed. Australia’s key piece of environmental law is fundamentally broken and not equipped to deal with our extinction and climate crises. This is our key piece of national environmental law! It's time for the Government to re-set the rules around nature conservation, make sure nature is properly protected and the law is independently administered and leave a positive legacy that would last for generations. Doug Gimesy Photography

12.01.2022 "MP RITA STAFF WHY TAKE OUR HOMES MAIN ROADS ARE WRONG" sprayed across the Bussell Highway by an unknown person, spreading the message to hundreds of thousands ...of Perth travellers in peak school holiday season. It is the second round of anti-BORR graffiti being removed. Traffic is today restricted to one lane while workers remove the message. See more

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08.01.2022 TODAY'S South Western Times: "This ring road proposal is among the worst cases of planning process I have seen in over 50 years of social justice campaigning" - John Sherwood OAM #savegelorup #bunburyouterringroad #BORR #ringtailsnotringroads Threatened Species Commissioner Mark McGowan

07.01.2022 Amazing news!!! Congratulations to WA Forest Alliance and all the other amazing crew involved for their bravery, stealth and hard yards over the decades

06.01.2022 FULL page in today's South Western Times. We sincerely thank President Southwell for his statement.

06.01.2022 SIMPLE GUIDE TO INDIGENOUS FIRE MANAGEMENT (Based on reading / listening to Bruce Pascoe and others) From Peter Collins ... Indigenous fire management, goes hand in hand with indigenous land management and indigenous water management; and all are based on respecting and living with the natural environment. Lighting small fires, in some areas, at the correct time of year, when the temperature and soil and vegetation moisture content is right, in order to burn litter and stimulate the growth of desired plants, is a thing. Clearing forest, then scraping off the topsoil, to get at coal which is then washed with all the fresh water you want, which is then burned either here or overseas, which then heats the world’s atmosphere, which then changes the world’s weather patterns, which then makes our entire continent hotter and drier and hence way more likely to catastrophically burn; is not a thing.

06.01.2022 How special is it to stand beneath a big old tree? A tree that’s gnarly truck and expansive stretch of branches make you feel quite small and insignificant. O...ne that takes your breath away as you strain your neck skyward to look up through the canopy, or even a tree that has died, and lost all leaves and bark but remains a monolithic trunk standing like a sentinel in the forest. No matter what experience you have with the visibly living or seemingly dead big trees, you must know how very important they are to the biodiversity of a forest or woodland. A part of what makes our region here in Gelorup important are the big old trees. These trees, generally over 150 years old, and up to 400 years, are the Great Great Great Grandparents that nurture the woodlands and provide hollows and nutrients to the Fauna, Flora and Fungi that live here. As many of you know, we live in a special part of the South West that still has remnants of what once was a Eucalypt and Banksia Woodland that covered at least 70% more of the region than it now does. (I’ve included some links below to follow up if you’ve time to read statistics). The hollows in old trees in this remnant woodland can take centuries to form from the affects of weather, fire, insects, fungi and man. These various sized and shaped hollows are used by a variety of different creatures, mammals, birds and lizards, and provide roosting, nesting and shelter. They are vitally important to our critically endangered WR possums and Black Cockatoos. Older trees produce significantly more flowers, nectar and seeds than young trees and thus are of particular importance to fauna relying on these food sources. Apiarist’s rely on blossom for honey production, and a forest of big trees is an important asset to that industry. The larger canopies produce more leaf litter that provides food and nutrients to the soil and encourages ground foragers and soil turners. Big trees also clean our air and contribute to the stability of our water tables and soil salinity, and encourage their own micro climate and help with controlling erosion. Even in death a big tree remains a habitat until it returns it’s goodness to the soil and is slowly broken down by insects and fungi to form the nutrients for new seed germination. Trees are simply valuable throughout every stage of their lives, but none so much as an Old tree! Basically, we can little afford more destruction of our Swan Coastal Plain Region, the loss of what little remains will have a devastating affect on the flora and fauna that struggle to live in what bushland we have left. http://www.environment.gov.au//cmz-swan-coastal-plains-shr https://www.dpaw.wa.gov.au//off-road-conservation/LFW/Old_ https://www.environment.gov.au//pu/publicshowcommunity.pl

05.01.2022 Some of us were kids back when these maps were first drawn up for the Greater Bunbury Regional Plan, many of you were not even born yet!! This Labor government ...is taking plans made in a vastly different era, and trying to make them fit into a future that is barely recognisable from that simpler past, pictured here in our capital city Perth - population 825,000 in 1975. The planning was for a projected 100,000 people in the South-West region of which has now grown to be 200,000 people. The land put aside for the original regional two lane road through Gelorup is now going to become a four lane freeway... Interestingly this is only in the Southern Section of the BORR as the Northern Section was recently changed to suit - for a suburb that does NOT yet exist - Wanju. Times back in the 1970’s were so different that we didn’t worry about the Environment, certainly not the long list of Critically Endangered Fauna and Flora we now have here amongst the Gelorup Corridor. We didn’t think that Indigenous issues were important, in fact Indigenous Australians were only included in the Census less than a decade before, in 1967. So what say did they have over their traditional lands? From the maps included here, the plans for the BORR were made before the subdivision of Gelorup from farming land into special rural, so the community of Gelorup did not yet exist as 2 and 5 acre blocks. Prospective buyers were told that the road had never eventuated, and never would due to the lack of funding. Consultation signage was erected 19 years after the community of Gelorup was established and NEVER was a four lane freeway mentioned. The whole process has not taken into account the many people that now live here, the many species of Flora and Fauna that are now Critically Endangered, or the new respect we show to areas of significance for the First Nations people as the Traditional Owners of this Land. How can plans made in a completely different time ever be justified for this future? The whole Southern Section needs to return to the drawing board and a Sustainability analysis completed, to facilitate new plans that reflect the future that is fast approaching, as is the 2021 elections.

05.01.2022 ANOTHER giant tree on the Gelorup Corridor targeted. This ancient jarrah is several hundred years old, with an approximate 4 metre circumference. It has 5 nesti...ng hollows, each of which have taken 150+ years to form. These hollows are homes for Critically Endangered Western Ringtail Possums and Endangered and Vulnerable Black Cockatoos. Main Roads and WA Labor are proposing to cut down thousands of trees here for the Bunbury Outer Ring Road and our community is saying NO. #savegelorup #ringtailsnotringroads #bunburyouterringroad #BORR See more

04.01.2022 How beautiful are WA's red-tailed black cockatoos? This stunning picture was captured at Yokine Regional Open Space. @muneer Al Shanti