Blog - Australia's Wonderful Birds

In 1979 a large group of protesters, organised by residents from Terania Creek, blocked the bulldozers sent to destroy what was to become Nightcap National Park (in the Northern Rivers NSW). They saved some of Australia’s most valuable and beautiful bushland, and so began environmental activism in Australia. The march from Terania Creek up to Protesters Falls became legendary...

At the end of Bayshore Drive in Byron Bay the surveyors are busy. The go ahead has finally been given to build on empty land that was once a swampland and part of the Belongil Creek estuary. Immediately behind are the massive sand dunes that protect much of the Byron Shire. The approval is for a limited number of large blocks and this is seen as a bit of a win in some quarter...