WE HAVE MOVED

Santos asked us to vacate their room. Shane of the Island Quary offered us space at a very modest rent in the Mullumbimby disused railway station. Volunteers helped to install our new office and it is all up and running now. For the time being it is attended by a work for the dole person one day a week. Our new address is: Mullumbimby Railway Station, 2 Prince Street, Mullumbimby.

The Byron Environment Centre is holding it's monthly chemical-free bush regen at the Cumbebin
Wetland (behind the market site) this Saturday July 24th from 10-3. Light lunch provided. Bring hat
and gloves and sturdy footwear.
From August until June next year we will be having our bush regen days fortnightly - this August it
will be on Monday the 2nd. and Saturday the 21st.

Byron Environment Centre fully supports the actions taken by the environmental group CONOS in their court challenge against Byron Shire Council & Billinudgel Property Pty Ltd.

It is disappointing that Council has approved a trial for Splendour in the grass. The Yelgun site is universally recognised for its high environmental and cultural values and it should be self evident that holding a mega festival adjacent to a nature reserve and across a fragile wildlife corridor will only serve to fragment the environmental values of the area.

In the matter of Developers supporting local community organizations it is true that the BEC has at one time received a generous financial donation from Splendour. However this was in a time when the festival was manageable at the local level. The BEC has also over the years donated its time to Splendour by being present at their festivals with its successful binyabutt program.

The company has taken the Council to the NSW parliament but the Council is challanging it.

Going Going Gone? The Plight of the Southern Cassowary

The Rainforest Information Centre officially launched their new nationwide campaign, Save the Cassowary, on Wednesday, June 23rd.
The endangered Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) perches on the edge of extinction with perhaps as few as 1000 remaining in the tropical rainforests of Far North Queensland. The Wet Tropics depend on the Southern Cassowary to disperse and germinate seeds of up to 150 rainforest plant species.
The primary threats to these ancient flightless birds are loss of habitat and road kill associated with development. The increase of traffic through Cassowary habitat has resulted in 60 Cassaowaries being killed over the past 15 years

Dog attacks and obstacles to free movement in the landscape such as fences are also major threats being introduced by residential development.

At Mission Beach, subdivisions are creating more than 1000 new residential blocks and in the Daintree, 185 rainforest properties are zoned for development.

The Rainforest Information Centre is urging the Federal Government to provide funds to buy back the remaining undeveloped properties in the Daintree and Mission Beach, vital primary habitat for the Cassowary.

To Act Now, please take a moment to send a letter to Minister Garrett at www.savethecassowary.org.au or email us at enquiries@savethecassowary.org.au to request postcards for you and your friends to sign.