This national park is a place that protects old-growth forests,
rugged granite formations and picturesque valleys and gorges.
Koalas, powerful owls and giant burrowing frogs are among the
threatened species protected within a park which also shelters
the state’s only known populations of endangered long-footed potoroos.
threatened species protected within a park which also shelters
the state’s only known populations of endangered long-footed potoroos.
ABC
News on 14th
March 2013:
There are concerns that motorists on the New South Wales south coast
could be in the firing line under the State Government's plan to allow hunting
in national parks.
The Greens have obtained a leaked document showing an area of the South
East Forests National Park which straddles the Princes Highway has been
designated "zone C".
This would mean unsupervised hunting would be allowed in that part of
the park.
In the risk assessment document, parks workers raise concerns that the
two-kilometre stretch of highway included within the zone is used daily by
school buses, locals, tourists and tradespeople.
Greens MP David Shoebridge says the area lies just five kilometres north
of the town of Merimbula.
"All the hunting was meant to be away from residential areas and
the unsupervised parts, these so-called remote zone C parts of the national
parks, were meant to be in the deepest, darkest parts of New South Wales,"
Mr Shoebridge said.
"But here we've got it right next to a township, right next to the
busiest arterial road on the south coast which thousands of holiday makers and
school kids use on a daily basis.
The document says park workers are also concerned about a mentally ill
local resident who "tends to appear out of the bush without warning".
"The dangers are obvious to everyone apart from the
Government," Mr Shoebridge said_____
