What will your World Environment Day awesome action be?

Lend your voice to helping protect some bushland at Awaba?

The Proposed Awaba Conservation Area provides a vital wildlife corridor from the Watagan Mountains through Awaba State Forest and Sugarloaf Conservation Area to the shores of Lake Macquarie and the Lake Macquarie Conservation Area. There are many threatened species living in the area including Squirrel Gliders, Spotted -tailed Quolls, Swift Parrot, Grey-headed Flying foxes, Sooty Owl, Powerful Owl, Masked Owl and Tetratheca juncea.

In 2009 the NSW State Government acknowledged the importance of the land with its high conservation and biodiversity values stating “Additional conservation areas in West Lake Macquarie are clearly the next highest priority for the future. DECC will be actively working to improve conservation of priority lands in the West Lake Macquarie area by improved conservation practices on other crown tenures, through private land partnerships or as the sites for conservation offsets” ( DECC 2009 LHCP p32).

You can sign a petition or learn about the aims of the group trying to get it protected by visiting www.conservewestlakes.wordpress.com