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The Forever Chemicals in Your Water: What Platypuses Are Telling Us About PFAS

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The Forever Chemicals in Your Water: What Platypuses Are Telling Us About PFAS When Dr. Ian Wright’s research team started testing dead platypuses for PFAS contamination, the lab manager called immediately with an urgent question: “Where the hell is this from?” That moment marked the beginning of a detective story that would reveal uncomfortable truths […]

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Frensham Controversial Bush Cabins

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Blog Frensham Controversial Bush Cabins Case in Land and Environment Court relisted for March 2022 Artist : Harold Cazneaux (New Zealand; Australia, b.1878, d.1953) How do we talk about Frensham? Watching Frensham School for girls tear itself apart over the controversial bush cabin development application involving destruction of 249 trees, platypus inhabited creek banks and

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Open Letter to Frensham Board of Governors

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Leading environment experts and leaders in the Southern Highlands are calling on the Frensham Board of Governors to abandon its DA for bush cabins in the critically endangered community in the Lower Holt. Representative of Australian Wildlife Society, Wildlife carers, Bushcare groups, Wombatised, Birdlife Southern Highlands, WinZero and Australian Native Plants Society, amongst others. signed an Open Letter addressed to the Frensham Board of Governors. Click here

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Earl St Development

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6 April 2022 – Independent Planning Panel. Agenda Minutes THAT the Wingecarribee Local Planning Panel determines development application 21/2058 for subdivision of land and carrying out of works to create three lots, and carrying out of works for the purpose of private roads, at Lot 5 DP867717, Earl Street, Bowral by REFUSAL of consent

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Save Frensham Forest

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The Issue In 2015 the area know as the “Lower Holt”, which is a heavily forested section of land in Mittagong that borders Range Road to the west, Colo Street to the north and Evans Street to the east, was designated as a “Land for Wildlife” area for rescue and protection of native animals. Frensham now plans to

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ReGreening of the Wingecarribee River

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By Lyndal Breen The more or less accidental building of the Buradoo to Berrima walking track opened up a substantial access along the river which has allowed both bush regeneration and also historical rediscoveries along the riverside. Some history was close to being lost – my father, a keen local historian wrote in the 1980s

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WinZero November Roundup

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WinZero November Roundup Creating Awareness PechaKucha 2020 Congratulations to all the speakers at PechaKucha 2020 event at The Farm Club in Werai. Especially our WinZero heroes Kirstine, Rob and Ian Hasslacher. More members signed up as a result! Kirstine Lumb-McKay spoke about your self-sustainable Life at Greenlaw Rob Skinner – Landscape Regeneration – A way out of

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