DOING SOMETHING ABOUT GLOBAL
WARMING
Thinking globally about climate
change but acting
locally should encourage efforts to reduce emissions while also
creating
carbon sinks with the planting of trees and plants. The Blue Mountains
Conservation Society is doing more than it's part by assisting the
Blue
Mountains City Council in offsetting carbon dioxide emissions from
their
bush-care and weed management vehicles by planting 3,000 trees. The
Council
has indicated that they may consider expanding this to cover their
entire
vehicle fleet.
The Society also recently supplied
1,500 plants
for the re-vegetation of the Marmion Swamp in North Katoomba with a
further
500 to be provided in the coming weeks.The Society is also working
with the
National Parks and Wildlife Service to provide an additional 500
plants for
Green Gully in the Megalong Valley on top of the 10 supplied in
07,
together with several hundred more for the surrounds of the Wentworth
Falls
Picnic Area but does not stop there.The Society is also involved with
the RTA
plans to re-vegetate the area around the road widening between
Bullaburra and
the eastern part of Wentworth Falls. This could require some 80,000
plantings
with the Society providing trees and shrubs and some of the
ground-covers,
about two-thirds of the entire re-vegetation planned.
All this is done by volunteers
working with the
Society's Nursery and Bushcare Program. The natural environment has
suffered
from many deaths by many thousands of small cuts. The Society's
Nursery
and Bushcare Program is part of its regeneration with many small but
significant restorations.
Sincerely
David Hall
Blue Mountains Conservation Society
Contact phone no.
0404 123 001