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Environmental Advocacy Collages – Phantom Koala

al — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:21:26 +0000

“Phantom Koala” (PK) has been travelling about the Mt Warning Caldera Region in SE Qld & NE NSW, Australia. He became a “HERO” after journeying to find his mother, who was trapped in the Kings Forest Area of the Tweed Coast. During his “lifetime”, Koala numbers have diminished dramatically along the central eastern coastal and hinterland strip of Australia due to the unsustainable development of SE Qld and NE NSW.

PK looks out over the Hinze Dam and the Gold Coast in SE Qld. Where there was once a diverse network of wetlands, littoral forest and heathlands, interspersed by dry and wet schlerophyll forest and rainforests, there are now drains, canal estates, shopping centres, roads and housing acreage mowed bare and lacking in biodiverse health. The water aquifers are mostly unmonitored throughout this region and the ground water tables have been altered dramatically over the past decades to accommodate unsustainable development at the expense of future native wildlife habitats.

PK’s adventures it seems, are far from over. He journeys about, looking at infrastructure and development management by governments and corporations/powerful developers, human settlements, habitat restoration, land & water custodianship, and land stewardship in general, within the Mt Warning Caldera Region of eastern Australia.

PK travels to Mt Warning to visit his family in “Corridors Conservation & Phantom Koala”

PK travels to Mt Warning, and on the way he meets up with Chin Ting, the dragonfly, who gives PK a Warning!!! in “Phantom Koala and the Roadworks”

Phantom Koala ponders a big fire in the Mt Warning Caldera Region in “Australia’s Bushfire Legacy : an Ash Oracle”

PK travels to Beechmont (hinterland of the Gold Coast, SE Qld – Mt Warning Caldera Region) in “Organic Gardening & Growing the Biosphere”

PK then heads toward Kings Forest, past the developments on the Tweed Coast, NE NSW in “Pk ponders past Pottsville for Food”

PK and Litoria (a little native frog) meet at the roundabout. They have been facing strenuous peril on their holiday north across the coastal border of NSW & QLD in “Holiday time for PK and Litoria at Egg Rock”

PK learns about the spraying of glyphosate in the catchments of the Mt Warning Caldera Region in “PK and Litoria look for Rufous Bettong – a threatened species listed as vulnerable by the NSW Government” and later find out the “Wildlife leaves the Glyphosate Bank to find refuge in an Organic Garden”

A Balance of Faeries

Phantom Koala (PK) and Litoria decide it is safer to stay in the forest, than venture to the Australian Treasury and plead their case for more Biodiversity. They trust that Nature will teach Australians in the end, to care for the Land and it’s “Balance of Faeries”. How caring for Koalas and caring for their forest corridors can lead us into a sustainable future is woven into “Australia’s drop in the Ocean – the Draft Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill is open for comment”

PK worries for the fauna of Kings Forest and their wellbeing in “Kings Forest Project Development – sleepless days and nights to come for endangered species”

Pk and the Planner have a dream together……..

“When Phantom Koala was Young” tells the story of how PK lost his mother when she went on her yearly journey to the coastal trees, their saga, & how eventually he found her, only to be separated by a huge road and high fences.

After travelling yearly to the meeting place and long nights of talking with his mother, across the giant highway, separated by fences, Phantom Koala finally grows into adulthood. He (PK) is told by the Birds of the Land that “There is a Way!” to find his Mom.

PK journeys a long hard trek in the poem “There is a Way”, and after many weeks, he finally finds his mother. FACE to FACE at last.! His mother recounts how she has been trapped in a forest (Kings Forest), surrounded by farmland, degraded bushlands and developing housing estates. But in “There is a Way” they are finally reunited. However, the journey was hard.

PK had to brave long, terrifying roads, wild and domestic dogs, expanses of wasteland and fenced human settlements. His journey to find his mother turned him into a “HERO”. He now travels about the Mt Warning Caldera Region of NE NSW and SE QLD, Australia. The native wildlife are his friends. He has no tracker attached to him from inquiring scientists, and he can now travel just about anywhere he likes, because, he is a “HERO”. Protected by the Spirit Guardians of the Land and more than money can buy (love)- PK is a miracle “HERO”, full of love, laughter and immortality. He shares his insights to us about our human lifestyles and habits. His mission is to help all his friends in the bush regain their natural HERITAGE.

there is a way

Phantom Koala was first conceived back in 1995, when a Koala came knocking on my door, late one night, as I was starting to create a piece of artwork, high up on the Beechmont Plateau, near Lamington National Park, in the Gold Coast Hinterland of SE QLD. I have developed his concept over the years, and finally he has joined me on this bluecray website, as an educational and artistic form of environmental advocacy for helping native wildlife regain their natural heritage in Australia.

Incoming Searches: images of mt warning, collage with indigenous material, australia forest koala, collage making with indigenous materials, fauna night, identify animal droppings in brisbane garden, Koolabare mobi, pk com koola bare

There is a way !

al — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:05:18 +0000

It was long ago in another life that our dear PK came to some strife
Missing his mother’s loving face , he followed her trail from their breeding place…..

His search and their saga – ever so long, told PK quite clearly that something was wrong!
For months on end, that stretched to years, calling through fences with their tears

Across that void – that fierce road,
the trucks, the cars – their rushing load.

But now the best bit will unfold
As Pk’s stories now are told

One early evening waiting near the talking tree for his mother dear, he heard the wrens and bush birds say that to get to the coast there WAS a way
It was very long, and took some skill, and involved a risk of getting killed
Pk ask more from his flying friends, and they told him of roads that had no ends
However if game, they said that PK could travel those roads for part of the way

“Stick to the edges, and watch for the lights they’ll freeze you and fix you and BOY those cars bite”
“So stay in the shadows, and travel with stealth and you’ll get to a place which is full of ill health -
the drained swamps of coastlands” – the refugees called, but take take care of dogs so that you won’t be mauled

God speed you PK, called the Birds of the Land, as he started his journey with their helping hand.

Familiar with Mooball and Cudgerra Creek, his crossing of this place took more than a week.
Then suddenly there he was ,over THAT ROAD – that huge roaring thoroughfare with it’s faceless load.

Now where to begin to start tracking his Mum? Her scent was not there on the road he had come,
so sniffing the breeze in the quiet morning light, he touched on a memory ever so slight.
The “feel” of his mother! It came from these trees- she’d been here before, but it had been some years.

The urge to continue, to follow his nose – led him to a high fence and again more loud roads.

Yet our hero undaunted, his mother he’d find - then suddenly Pk saw one of his kind……..

A cousin – a cousin! There in the tree – he called out “KOALA! it’s PK!…. it’s ME!!”
The cousin’s eye’s opened his nose sniffed PK. Then he slowly pointed north, saying “that is the way”.

Now trembling with fatigues of his open road walk, our darling PK said “so sorry- can’t talk”. For gone were those days of the safe bushland life, now the people of Tweed were giving them strife.
The human machines screamed and roared all the day, the constant truck noise – the people – the fray.
Bravely PK lumbered slowly along, to the east and the north where it felt very wrong.

Something was happening that made PK sick – he’d felt it before, it was like a bad trick.
And there – in the distance, from a tall tree he spied, the lay of King’s Forest. Was it there he could hide?

For all about PK, was nothing but bare – all cleared and flat land and the trees were nowhere! There were fences and houses, and small shrubs and trees, but the way to the forest was filled with disease.

The waters were putrid, the sparse old trees ill. Yet PK kept going, with his strong free will
He “knew” that his Mother would be near this place – this great fading Forest – ( Tweed Coast’s disgrace)
Past cypress and tea tree, our little friend ran, then though a sharp fence and across the bare land

And suddenly there he was facing his MUM! She cried out PK – you really have come!

OH reader, now listen of PK’s delight! To find his dear mother at last – what a sight!

Full adventure was over, he could rest .. he could talk. Then he told his Mama about his “LONG WALK”,

so proud of her son and his clever repose – big roads and big fences- do more than we suppose.

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The above Poem, about Phantom Koala and how he finds his mother and becomes a Hero, reminds us that Koalas are at very high risk here, on the NE Coast of NSW.

The actions and work by the Australian Government has done nothing to save the plight of the Coastal Koala, here in SE QLD and NE NSW. Koala population Numbers are dropping dramatically, and the same habitat destroying development is continuing at an alarming pace, all along the coast.

However: THERE IS A WAY!!!

Download some KOALA info here:- from the EPA, QLD.

“Koala (Phascolartos cinereus) survey and habitat assessment of Lot 4 on RP 35335 Doolong South Rd, Wondunna, Hervey Bay, Queensland / conducted for the Hervey Bay City Council” - by ddwfauna August 2005, is a good start….

” When Phantom Koala was Young - A Koala Saga “ : my wordpress version of the first PK poem at Balance of Faeries blog.

“A Balance of Faeries” 1989 by al at bluecray – a story about koala habitat destruction – little by little – and the consequences

Kings Forest at articles Balance of Faeries blog and more links

Wisdom in the Land blog has Koala Planning Dreaming : a simple guideline for developing land, hand in hand with nature

Kings Forest : articles at bluecray.org and more links

***And, for inspiration……Some beautiful Koala ART WORK and a poem “Winter Koala” by Carol McCormack

21 Species and Agenda 21

al — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:51:28 +0000

21 Days into their Journey, PK and Litoria face some challenging moments.

Planning, law, Part 3A, habitat loss, fragmentation of habitat, coastal development and engineering of infrastructure are some of the difficulties that Phantom Koala and this little frog face on their journey.

“Administrative Law in an Environmental Context” search results at bluecray Environmental search engine
Duty of care and the precautionary principle : search results at bluecray environmental search engine.

PK & Litoria the Frog meet at the roundabout. They have been facing strenuous peril on their holiday north across the coastal border of NSW & QLD. Hopefully Chin Ting (the dragonfly) will arrive, and save the day!

Kings Forest Project Development in Tweed Shire by the Leda Group has Public Submissions extended by NSW Department of Planning

al — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:13:08 +0000

The Kings Forest Project Development in Tweed Shire ( Mt Warning Caldera Region – NSW, Australia ), by the property Group, Leda, has had an extension for Public Submission made, by the NSW Department of Planning. Kings Forest,on the coast near Kingscliff, NE NSW, is a beautiful, bio-diverse State Significant Site (Part 3A of the NSW Planning Law) with Koala and other fauna habitat, freshwater coastal wetlands, swamp Schlerophyll Forests.

FOR People wishing to find useful community submission information please see this article: – January 2012 SUBMISSIONS for Kings Forest INFORMATION

Acid Sulfate Soils Background Information

ACID SULFATE SOILS are a component of the Kings Forest Project Development, Kingscliff. I have recently added some ACID SULFATE SOIL (ASS) links in bluecray’s Ecosystems Links PAGE .

I have recently (Dec. 2011 – Jan 2012) updated some of this article, to include more specific points regarding this highly environmentally degrading development that should have never, in the first place been allowed, in its current form, by the Australian Government, NSW LABOUR Government and the Tweed Shire Council.

Kings Forest Proposal and Submission Information

The Proposal Information and ongoing submission stages of this State Significant Site can be found at:- http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au.
The Caldera Environment Centre has valuable information for any person wishing to make submissions on this ecologically degrading and shameful Part 3A development that is occurring in the Wetland Catchment Area of the Tweed Coast. (December 2011)
Kings Forest Submissions 2012 – article at bluecray.org – helpful community submission information
Australian Government’s Ecologically Sustainable Development website and information about Ecologically Sustainable Development

below are some other bluecray articles regarding this Kings Forest Development and the surrounding / adjacent areas:-

Kings Forest Investment Property – Wetland Habitat Destruction on the Tweed Coast (bluecray’s article on Kings Forest (25th Dec. 2011)
Illegal Clearing Cudgen Nature Reserve – a balance of faeries revisited (17th Nov. 2011)
Kings forest development threatens 21 threatened species of fauna (28th Feb. 2009) - this article gives a list of some of the Threatened Species at risk from this non ecologically sustainable, intense development. Bluecray recommends that this Kings forest development should have detailed species (for flora and fauna and ecological communities) “management” plans, for each and every species and community that is under threat from this development. Bluecray also recommends that on site monitoring and ongoing evaluations by local wildlife and vegetation / ecological “experts” should be included in every stage of this development. this should be done at the cost to Leda (the developers).
Endangered Ecological Community and Kings Forest Development, Tweed Coast, NE NSW. (7th Oct. 2009) (this is one of the ecological communities of the Tweed area that is NOT considered in any of the plans – due to timing of its listing)

** A NOTE to the thousands of readers who have visited or are currently visiting bluecray’s articles on KINGS FOREST, Kingscliff, Tweed Shire. ( 12th December 2011) , cheers, Alison Polistchuk

**Due to the ongoing ignorant and at times ruthless battle that is stirring concerning the Kings FOREST KOALAS and other Endangered (threatened species), the CONTINUED degradation of Australia’s disappearing wetlands, and lack of care by individuals & corporate entities towards the people of NE NSW and SE QLD:- bluecray has decided to tag, point out and consolidate historical investigations, documents, and evidence. (oh, and by the way, I suggest to any that may be involved in considering threat /nuisance toward both bluecray and the author, that there are, as I write, higher entities concerned, who are watching.) Please, to ALL involved…. why not stay in the light, work with creative love and integrity! When under pressure, creative loving educational solutions are much stronger, than brute force, ignorance, back room agendas and subversive threats and bullying tactics.

If you are searching for information that may be helpful in EDUCATING Tweed Shire Councillors , individual men and women running and employed by (either directly or indirectly) the Leda (property development group) and the NSW Government, try searching for “ESD Strategies at the Local Government Level” (environment 21) . This will lead you to a a Case Study of the City of Newcastle by Darren McKay and Ray Rauscher from the University of Newcastle. This document is a good recent historical educational study on ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT as conducted via international agreements, Federal / State law and policy procedures and the Role of Local Government. It will bring you up to speed on the background surrounding Ecologically Sustainable Development in Australia. Some of the document’s references to policy and law have changed, (eg. the Federal Labour Government ratified the Kyoto Protocol in late 2007) since it was published, but, it gives a concise historical perspective on many of the issues facing local councils in implementing Ecologically Sustainable Development.

Some general info about KINGS FOREST

Kings Forest Development includes areas of cleared land that could be (and could have been) regenerated to enhance the wetland habitats and nearby ecological units. This “State Significant Site” has a long history of community, technical and scientific concern about it’s future. In the hands of developers – currently the Leda Group, it is being scrutinised by the Tweed Shire Council and the NSW Department of Planning. Kings Forest requires as much public input as possible to ensure that its habitats and the vital “corridor” role that it plays for vulnerable species such as Koalas and other native flora and fauna in the Mt Warning Caldera Region are protected and enhanced.
The areas about the Kings Forest site are already under much development pressure, as is much of the Tweed Shire Region, which is contained completely within the Mt Warning Caldera Region of NE NSW, Australia. These development pressures already include INFRASTRUCTURE and AIRCRAFT noise components. The Gold Coast Airport’s Key Flight Tracks detail flight tracks for aircraft both arriving and departing. Information clearly shows many regular nearby & overhead daily flights of large aircraft. The Aircraft Noise Maps for the Tweed Coast can be found here.
Sensitive nature and wetland areas are adjacent to Kings Forest. Wetlands have been cleared and almost totally destroyed along the entire Tweed Shire and adjoining Gold Coast Coastlines. Kings Forest is no exception. It deserves much scrutiny and attention by planners and other government authorities and agencies. Wildlife that is still currently surviving by running before the bulldozers, will go into surrounding bushland, where further stresses on Native Wildlife Habitat will occur. Drainage and CATCHMENT ALTERATION will also create stress for Migratory and other wildlife relying on current water table and wetland habitats, as they try to adapt to a rapidly changing and degenerating ecosystem. This development is full of “Motherhood Statements” and disgraceful “Smoke and Mirrors” and Machiavellian Scenarios. The KINGS FOREST Development, Kingscliff holds many stories. Some are still unfolding. The documents attached to this development are expansive. Take the time to research, as there is much more to this development than meets the eye.
Koala Corridors and Buffers Zones should be part of the WHOLE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH. The area being developed for human settlement and infrastructure SHOULD include a whole plan approach, whereby the KOALA and ITS HABITAT is integral and 100% incorporated into the whole design. This should be so for ALL the native wildlife species that rely in part, or totally on the Kings Forest area for SURVIVAL. To do this, the number of houses/ size of urban stages must be dramatically decreased and designed in a way that more open natural space and connectivity is promoted.
This is the same for ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE PRINCIPLES :- water storage for each house; SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT and WASTE MINIMISATION – throughout both the construction and urbanisation phases; improved and enhanced wetland and INTEGRATED CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT & integrated native wildlife habitat enhancement throughout the entire development; sensible covenants on fencing, dogs, cats, rabbits, vegetation; energy efficient materials/design and development procedures & processes; local and regional environmentally sustainable employment opportunities; local food & local sustainable industry creation or mentorship (not just tokenism); fire, flood, noise, environmental and noxious weeds awareness. Town Planners know these lists more comprehensively. Tsunami and FLOOD evacuation procedures should also be incorporated fully into the design, as well as fire evacuation. This is particularly so for children/youth community and aged facilities.
SOCIAL INCLUSION and COMMUNITY RESOURCE areas – especially for young families, youth, disadvantaged and the aged. Comprehensive Educational information for all prospective and existing settlers to the REGION can be of great value also – particularly for ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS, and SOCIAL WELLBEING. TRANSPORT should be state of the art Environmentally Sustainably Networked and Implemented, by both the developer (who profits and thus should care where and how his/her profit arises) and the Governments (who should CARE and show diligent leadership).
SHADE:- in a time of increasing Sun Cancers, the level of integrated shaded pathways, roadways, parkways, parking areas and recreational areas is important. Energy efficient Shading comes in the form of landscape/Habitat Trees. Eucalypts are not good nor safe landscape trees for this use, due to limbs constantly dropping.
Concerning the road linkages (that are proposed to go through the KINGS FOREST DEVELOPMENT) from the Pacific Highway through to the Tweed Coast Road and other coastal roadways servicing the urban developments on the nearby coastline (Kingscliff through to Wooyung), the question is:- will this Major Linkage Collector Road have to cater for even more traffic than local residents? YES, it will. The Kings Forest Stage 1 Project Application “Traffic engineering assessment” (prepared for Project 28 Pty Ltd 2nd March 2011) and the Tweed Shire Council predicts a tripling in traffic along the Tweed Coast Road eventually. Thus FOUR LANE Major Roads and COLLECTOR ROADS will carve up and destroy much more of the fragile remaining ecosystems, creating Noise and stress for all residents (non, 2 ,4, 6 and 8 legged).
I would rate the ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY of this project – on a scale from 1 to 10 as about a MINUS 5.
Healthy minds, educated people, these days, try to do the right thing by our beautiful endangered species and their homes. However, money and power in the hands of ignorant and unwise people has time and time again created more and more destruction. The Tweed Coast attests to this. This is called “living a lie”, and it makes people sick and delusional until they wake up and create a change for the better – both for themselves, and for others.
The buffer zones indicated in the planning documents are highly inadequate. again, a whole development approach is required. I recommend that Mr Ell and his team need to go back to school – primary school, and receive some education – where many small children can tell them how to make the world better, rather than making it horrible. It is never too late to change.
There are many, many good people in Government and Industry who want to make the world a better place…. whilst compromise is an essential part of negotiation, things such as rapidly disappearing wetlands, native wildlife, socio-economic well being, environmentally sustainable practices dictate that a whole new game be presented to this uneven playing field. A playing field called - Leda and the Kings Forest series of ridiculously stupid mistakes.

And now, back to the original article……………(

(This posting was originally commenced in 2009)

The extended public submissions for the Kings Forest Project in Tweed Shire, near Kingscliff, were accepted until 2nd March 2009.

Proposed and gazetted State Significant Sites : NSW Department of Planning (I updated this above link on 26th October 2009)

The Proposal Information can be found at:- http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.au.

and more information can be found in the links below.

**Kings Forest, Kingscliffe, Tweed : 06_0318 Residential Community – Preparing Response. This is the page you can view to find out the specific details for your submission/response to the Kings Forest (coastal area subdivision) Development by Leda, on the NE Coast of NSW, near Kingscliffe. “Subdivision to create new lots for future development; Construction of the entrance road to the site and associated intersection works on Tweed Coast Road; Subdivision and associated infrastructure works for the first stage of urban development; Bulk earthworks and planting for the proposed future golf course; and a service station and fast food outlet.” (Project application description at NSW Department of Planning)
According to the Tweed Border Mail, the **Tweed Shire Council has raised concerns about threats to wildlife, and stormwater, sewerage and roads provisions proposed for the almost 10,000 homes that will be included in this, the Kings Forest Project, and the nearby Cobaki Lakes development, that is also being proposed by the developers.

The development is by Bob Ells’ Leda group.
Sydney Morning Herald Feb 8th 2003 ”The Trick in the Tweed : take a good look at the Lie of the land” – some interesting history about the Kings Forest site 1970′s-2003
Gold Coast City Council – 9th Nov 2007 “ Leda ordered to remediate illegally cleared land” - “Gold Coast City Council yesterday secured orders in the Planning and Environment Court compelling companies owned by Gold Coast billionaire developer Bob Ell to revegetate land that had been illegally cleared in November and December last year.City Planning Chair, Cr Ted Shepherd, said the Court had judged that Leda Developments Pty Ltd and Leda Developments No. 2 had cleared major portions of a holding of about 100 hectares at Pimpama without the relevant development permits from the Council.” view article to read more

** If you follow the links below, you will get to the Planning Documents for Kings Forest (Residential Community Development 06 0318 ) :- START HERE : NSW Department of Planning Home » Development Assessments » Major Project Assessments »THEN click on Major Projects Part 3A then, Coastal Areas » Subdivisions . You should find the Kings Forest Documents by this time. Good luck!!!! Failing that, just click HERE : **Kings Forest, Kingscliffe, Tweed
Environmental Assessment Exhibition – Major Project – Kings Forest (MP06_0308) Residential Community Development – Council Submission – this link now gone or moved
Kings Forest – on Google Maps –
Kings Forest and Development – North Coast, New South Wales, Australia aerial photos at airviewonline.com.au
The Caldera Environment Centre in NE NSW, Australia shows insights, in their submission to the NSW Government and objection to the planned Kings Forest and Cobakai Lakes Development , summing up the King’s Forest Project situation very clearly. You should have a read of this Submission HERE. Well, the submission and position statement of the Caldera Environment Centre WAS there, but now, well, it is gone or moved.
Northern River Guardians
Big Scrub Environment Centre – Kings Forest - (http://www.bigscrub.org.au/newsletters/e-journal4.html#kings) – link gone
Total Environment Centre – Kings Forest
Tweed Shire Echo - has some articles relating to the Kings Forest Development

Bluecray SEARCH results : Regional Environmental News – Mt Warning Caldera Region – Kings Forest NSW Planning
Kings Forest and the NSW State Government **State Environmental Planning Policy (Major Projects) 2005 – Kings Forest as viewed by the NSW Government currently, under planning policy
**Koala Priority Actions : NSW Department of Environment & Climate Change
Koala fact sheet NSW Government
Development project threatens second largest Koala Colony in Tweed Shire - candobetter.net ** this is a good article to help you understand this development, with contact details for the project and some great Koala info
6 Threatened Flora species and 21 threatened FAUNA species have been identified at the Kings Forest SITE. Summaries and conclusions from the Threatened Species Management Plan for Kings Forest conclude that these threatened species will continue to persist on the site following this future development. Read this document (to be found here)
Kings Forest Development threatenes 21 Threatened Species of Fauna . This article includes a list of some of the Threatened species that are at risk from Bob Ell’s Leda development at Kings Forest, (including the Koala -Phascolarctos cinereus ), with links to find out more about some of them.

Convention on Biological Diversity – Treaty signed and ratified by Australia for Convention on Biological Diversity :-
**”Conservation of biological diversity is the subject of Chapter 15 of Agenda 21, which was adopted by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in 1992, in Rio de Janeiro. At the same Conference, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which has subsequently entered into force, was opened for signature” (United Nations – Division for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs)
**Tweed Shire Council Flora and Fauna Management ( there appears to be a typo on this page – it says “flora and flora” management… but I guess they mean flora and fauna!!!!) There is plenty in here to show that Kings Forest is indeed both regionally important, and important to Australia and the world, given the pressures of development on and within the region. Koalas are only one feature of this regional importance that Kings Forest holds…. there is much much more – have a good look!!!!
Submission on the Proposed Biodiversity Banking Scheme February 2008 – Environmental Defender’s Office and Total Environment Centre submission:-“Our concerns regarding the variation process are outlined in a letter to DECC, which can be found at: www.edo.org.au/edonsw/site/policy.php. In summary, our main concerns are:………………………………………………………..As a result of widespread development throughout the Tweed Coast in the last decade, many species have had their ranges significantly reduced. Kings Forest is a regional stronghold for many species such as the Long-nosed potaroo and the planigale. This area contains the only viable areas of native vegetation faunal communities across the Tweed Coast. Large parts of this area have been flagged for development in the Far North Coast Regional Strategy because of lobbying by the development industry.”

Tweed Development and Employment – with particular reference to the Leda Development at Kings Forest – ( Hansard Transcript – NSW Parliament 18th october 2006)
Tweed Daily News – “Developer’s Plans Open to Public” – 16th December 2008 “ BILLIONAIRE property developer Bob Ell’s company, Leda, has lodged formal applications with the NSW Government for Tweed’s biggest yet residential developments — Cobaki Lakes on the Queensland border and Kings Forest inland of Casuarina Beach…….” read rest of article
Tweed Daily News 17th February 2009 “Developments Uncertain” by Peter Caton

Biolink Ecological Consultants – they did Kings Forest Koala Plan of Management for Leda Devlopments
Revised Koala Management Plan – by Ecoindig Resources – Frank Carrick superceding the above report – (Development Footprint and Native Vegetation Clearing Assessment google HTML DOC) – sorry, couldn’t find the actual report – this planning document retrieval is a nightmare!!!! but highly educational
Landpartners – Threatened Species Management Plan Kings Forest couldn’t get their web page to work, but Google HTML doc about Landpartners is here
Everick Heritage Consultants Pty Ltd – they did the Cultural Heritage Assessment for Kings Forest Development 2008
Planning Workshop Australia – Kings Forest and some other State Significant Sites’ work for developers.
Geolink Environmental Management and Design- Strategic Planning Project Planning – Kings Forest
**jbaplanning.com.au – JBA Urban Planning Consultants : On Exhibition – Kings Forest Environmental Assessment
Assessment of Off-Site Impacts Associated with Development inAccordance with theKings Forest Concept Plan – jbaplanning.com.au
Threatened Species and Ecological Communities – Australian Government
Biodiversity Assessment NE NSW – Mammals
Bats – Australian Museum - what threatens them, photos and more
Little Bentwing Bat (Miniopteris australis) – Little Bentwing Bat profile at NSW Threatened Species website
The Importance of Tree Hollows estimated 50-100 years for Hollows to occur in vegetation communities
Little Bentwing-bat – Northern Rivers: Distribution and vegetation associations in the Northern Rivers – Threatened Species NSW
The Little Bent-wing Bat Miniopteris australis roosting in a tree hollow - ”location of M. australis in a tree hollow indicates that timber harvesting and land clearance may also affect roost sites at certain times of the year.“

Phantom Koala and the Roadworks at Bluecray Blog “A Balance of Faeries”
A Balance of Faeries – a story about the effects of clearing vegetation in a stressed landscape bluecray.org

Little Bat finds NE NSW Coast Lifestyle, near Kings Forest to much to survive in

This little Bat in the above photo is a consequence of development – dead on the doorstep of a duplex in the housing development west of Pottsville. With 21 threatened fauna species threatened even more by Leda and the development proposed, what will be the costs, if all that stands between them, and survival, is documents written, verbal provisions made and “intentions” outlined, when the bulldozers and engineering machinery move into Kings Forest and further develop this area?

NSW Native Vegetation Map .

“A preliminary investigation of the distribution of koalas and their potential habitat in the Tweed Shire, and implications for management” by Judy Faulks . I can no longer find this article/ reference to it on the internet, but you may have more luck by looking for it. I originally found it at – Australian Zoologist, June 1991 Vol. 27(1 & 2). You may find it here at the Royal Zoological Society of NSW in the Journals. Alternatively, try this google search : australian zoologist June 1991 Vol. 27(1 & 2)

search for Aboriginal (Indigenous peoples) research literature for the North Coast of NSW at the Libraries Australia Search
“A Balance of Faeries” – 1989 by al at bluecray.org : a story about Koala Habitat clearing and the consequences

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