National Parks Proposals for the Sydney Region
Project
Sydney is unusual among highly developed cities in having relatively large and significant areas of natural lands within and encircling its boundaries. Their conservation at the urban interface requires an integrated system of reserves. This project aimed to promote the expansion and consolidation of the national parks estate to form a “greenbelt” around the city and contain urban sprawl; to establish appropriate reserve boundaries that afford more complete and effective catchment protection; and to more adequately conserve habitat types not based on Hawkesbury Sandstone. It didn’t represent the client’s complete reserves proposal, but highlighted priority lands for conservation.
- The report and master map outlined over 60 proposals for new and additions to existing national parks, nature reserves, state recreational areas and regional parks in the Greater Sydney Region.
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- Each proposal was individually mapped and assessed in terms of its location, size and land tenure; local government area and electorate; geology, flora and fauna; Aboriginal and European cultural heritage; reasons which warranted its reservation; threats to its conservation values; and a summary of the proposal’s evolution – ie campaigns and political actions over time. View Proposed national parks.pdf
- The report aimed: to guide the NSW Government in allocating more and appropriate conservation areas in land management plans for Sydney and to be an informative lobby tool for community conservation group campaigns. The report’s second edition was officially launched by former NSW Minister for the Environment, Ms Pam Allen, on 21.02.1999 and distributed to relevant state government agencies. wish-list-pressure.pdf
- As a result of the report, a Conservation Alliance grant in 2000 enabled design and production of “community information and action leaflets” to assist individuals and community groups to lobby for the reservation of three important bushland areas in western Sydney. NPA reaches out to bushland.pdf
Client: National Parks Association of NSW – www.npansw.org.au
Date: 1994-95 (1st edition), 1998-2000 (2nd edition and action leaflets)
