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Radiata Plateau (Kamil Sustiak)
Sitting on the southern escarpment, Radiata Plateau with its outstanding topography is the last remaining undeveloped peninsula-plateau in the upper Blue Mountains.
Home to rare and threatened species, culturally significant and a magnet for the local outdoor community, Radiata Plateau, towering high above rolling valleys has been in the making for millennia.
Here's the Open Letter to the Hon. Gabrielle Upton, NSW Minister for Environment and Heritage published in the Blue Mountains Gazette on 5th December.
See more on our Leave Radiata Plateau Wild pages
GoS Banner Drop 2017 (Henry Gold)
Wednesday 5 December
in the Gardens of Stone area.
The Council of Retired Union Member Associations (CRUMA) is celebrating the work of unionists and environmentalists, Joyce and Vern Moffitt, at Lithgow and in the Gardens of Stone area on Wednesday 5 December.
The Moffitts played a valuable role in the creation of the Gardens of Stone National Park, which is today part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area.
Vern Moffitt was Miners Federation Union Official. The Moffitts together were a formidable team in arguing for workers rights, social justice and preserving the natural environment for future generations.
CRUMA support the 39,000 hectare Gardens of Stone Stage 2 Reserve proposal being protected as a State Conservation Area. Blue Mountains Conservation Society supports this event along with the other Gardens of Stone Alliance organisations.
You are invited to join the celebrations during the day. For more information about the day's program see the invitation.
Any queries: Madi Maclean, president@bluemountains.org.au
WWF Living Planet Report
Since 1998, The Living Planet Report has been tracking the state of global biodiversity.
WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018 shows the scale of the challenge – and highlights what we can do, both here in Australia and around the world, to change the way we live.
WWF’s Living Planet Report 2018 reveals that global wildlife numbers have plummeted by 60% in just over 40 years.
That’s a 13.6% loss per decade.
Even more frightening, in our own backyard, koalas on Australia’s east coast are declining at a rate of 21% per decade. This shrinking figure can sadly be explained by another damning discovery released in the report: Eastern Australia has become a world ‘deforestation hotspot’.
Here's the summary report. [5MB pdf]
Here's the full report. [15MB pdf]
Cover of the IPCC Special Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways.
The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require “rapid and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching ‘net zero’ around 2050.
“Limiting warming to 1.5ºC is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics but doing so would require unprecedented changes,” said Jim Skea, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III.
Here's the IPCC Special Report.
We have so many ways to pursue a healthy climate – it’s insane to wait any longer - from The Conversation.
Blue Mountains MP, Trish Doyle2019 State Election
The Society launched its 2019 State Election Campaign on 31 October.
The well attended event in Lawson heard Kate Smolski, CEO of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW present an overview of the key environmental issues across the state, and its policies for the 2019 NSW election and beyond.
Download Kate's presentation. [13MB PowerPoint Show].
The Society presented its activities and campaigns that are influenced or affected by the NSW State Government's policies and legislation.
Download the Society's presentation. [14MB PowerPoint Show].
The major parties were invited to send a spokesperson to say a few words at the meeting and to answers questions from the audience. The Greens and Labor accepted this offer.
Society President, Madi Maclean
Senior Vice President Tara Cameron,
Justin Field, Greens MLC andHere's the NCC's A Cleaner, Greener NSW - Policies for the 2019 NSW State Election and Beyond document. [13MB pdf].
The NSW government has announced it will introduce legislation to allow the temporary flooding of national park land resulting from the raising of the wall of Warragamba Dam.
If the dam wall is raised, 4,700 hectares of World Heritage listed National Parks and 1,800 hectares of declared Wilderness Areas will be forever scarred from sedimentation, erosion and invasion of exotic plants.
Raising Warragamba Dam will inundate 65 kilometres of Blue Mountain's wild rivers.
The legislation will amend the National Parks and Wildlife Act.
You can show your support for protecting our Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area by donating to Wild Rivers campaign to stop this and by signing the petition.
For more information, go to the Save The Blue Mountains Wild Rivers website
"Who agrees that we can't let a coal mine destroy this unique Australian landscape?" asks NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham.
"The Gardens of Stone on the edge of the Blue Mountains near Lithgow will be destroyed if coal mining is allowed to go ahead."
"Here I am standing on the precipice of the sandstone pagodas in this beautiful Australian bushland that could be ruined through subsidence caused by longwall mining techniques - where they deliberate collapse the earth as the mining machine moves along the coal face. As the age of coal comes to a close, we should not be risking such incredible areas."
See our campaign site on the Gardens of Stone
No Western Sydney Airport bumper sticker
The Society believes that the Western Sydney Airport and its attendant infrastructure and associated industries poses a very real threat to the GBMWHA. And as a result, the Airport is a threat to the Blue Mountains communities, tourism and businesses.
The principal impact on the GBMWHA and Blue Mountains communities of the proposed Western Sydney Airport is aircraft noise.
See more on our campaign against Western Sydney Airport
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