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The story behind the new bird sign at Aquarius Park
If you’ve wandered along the Rainbow Walk lately, you might have spotted something new in Aquarius Park: a bright, beautiful bird sign tucked near the dam. At our recent Landcare workday someone asked me how it came about, and I realised the story is very much a Nimbin one – full of coincidence, generosity and…
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The greater glider needs more than promises
The greater glider – that wideeyed, fluffy-tailed icon of Australia’s forests – is slipping towards extinction. Once common across eastern and south-eastern Australia, this gentle nocturnal glider has become a symbol of everything going wrong in our native forests: clearing, fragmentation and the ongoing logging of habitat that simply cannot be replaced. Logging removes hollow-bearing…
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Extreme Weather Events Hit Region
As long predicted by Climate Change scientists, extreme weather events are becoming more common around the world, and will continue to do so. Throughout the Northern Rivers, massive storms with gale-force winds on 23rd January caused serious damage to properties and uprooted many trees which knocked out power infrastructure. In Nimbin’s main street, a huge…
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Rising Tide blockade of coal port
The Transport for NSW department imposed a maritime exclusion zone on Friday, just four days before the ‘Climate Justice Protestival’ was meant to start next to Horseshoe Beach in Muloobinba/Newcastle. After last year’s successful 30-hour blocking of the shipping lane for the huge coal ships in agreement with the police through long negotiations, this year…
