Protect Beautiful Dalmeny NSW- Habitat Matters!

Protect Beautiful Dalmeny NSW- Habitat Matters!

This beautiful forest on the Far South Coast is set to be cleared for development. This area, which escaped the 2019/20 bushfires, is crucial habitat for threatened species who will not survive the destruction of their home.

The Eurobodalla Shire Council has ignored community concerns and plans to turn 100 hectares of Spotted Gum forest into urban sprawl, with the potential to add 1000 residents to our small village.

Donations will be used to pay for campaign expenses to raise awareness in the community, lobby Council and politicians and cover potential legal costs.

This is an URGENT PLEA- we need to move quickly before development approvals are made!

Legal fees are expensive, a barrister can charge $1000- $2000 per day and a senior barrister $10 000 per day.

This community expects a transparent process and meaningful consultation when it comes to the sale of public land and decisions which have the potential to overdevelop Dalmeny forever.

Dalmeny Matters wants to reclaim this land for the community

We want to see a modern approach to the housing crisis that avoids mass clearing. Particularly in a small regional community with no infrastructure to support overdevelopment.

This bushland is used and loved by bush walkers, mountain bikers, bird watchers, dog walkers and tourists. The bush shelters Dalmeny from hot winds, balances extremes of temperature, captures rainwater and carbon and purifies our air.

Local groups have already documented over 600 species in our area and threatened species including official records of Glossy Black Cockatoos, Yellow-bellied Gliders, Gang Gang Cockatoos and Grey-headed Flying-foxes.

We are lucky enough to share our backyards with wildlife. Wallabies lounge on our lawns with their joeys, forest bird species come for water and nectar, bandicoots dig and lizards bask. We don’t want to lose this! Protect the unburnt!

This land is part of the catchment area for Mummaga Lake

The forest slows and filters rainwater as it flows towards the lake. Land clearing has huge implications for coastal areas. All pollutants from a new development will end up in our lake and beach water. Increased nutrient loads from runoff can cause toxic algal blooms, that on occasions has already occurred in our lake killing off many water species.

The Eurobodalla Koala Project want to protect this habitat

Eucalypt species in this bushland all have koala-use ratings and that protecting forest corridors near Bodalla State forest is a priority for koala rewilding. This area is part of one of the last remaining East to West bush corridors on the South Coast.

Dalmeny Matters want to protect our area from unsustainable development

Growth must be planned responsibly. Development should be focused on the needs of local residents, not designed to generate profits for developers who don’t care about our area or our environment and are not locally based companies that truly understand the importance of this vital habitat.

Any planning should be for Dalmeny as a whole, with future community needs and services provided for.

If you love Dalmeny, if you want to protect the bushland, lake and beach that makes this such a special place, please give generously.