The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk

Intensifying the throughput rate with a series of soaring walkways through the Gondwana Rainforest

The $56.4 million investment in Dorrigo National Park will create “accessible, engaging and immersive experiences for visitors. The 4-day walking track will “connect people with nature... The new 46-km multi-day walk along the rugged escarpment within Dorrigo and Bindarri national parks, includes hiker camps, pedestrian bridges and lookouts.”

The review of environmental factors for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk is available for public comment
>> until 24 February 2025. >>
https://www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/parks-reserves-and-protected-areas/park-management/community-engagement/walking-tracks-and-trails-in-national-parks/dorrigo-great-walk
https://www.nsw.gov.au/have-your-say/dorrigo-escarpment-great-walk

The Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk project has the potential to put though an extra 200,000 visitors ...>
https://bellingenshirenews.com/2023/11/22/new-opportunities-flagged-for-shire/

There is an information session at the

Gleniffer Hall at 10am on Tuesday 11 February

at which staff from National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will outline the draft review of environmental factors (REF) for the Dorrigo Escarpment Great Walk.

#biodiversity #rainforest #Gondwana #MidNorthCoast #NationalParks #NSW #BindarriNP #Dorrigo #AdventurePark #infrastructure #lookouts #views #cars #Climate #tourism #traffic #TheDrive #Bellingen #experience #stuff #walkways #ecology #MoreThanHuman #impacts

A new twist in an old origin story: Earliest #dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon https://phys.org/news/2025-01-story-earliest-dinosaurs-emerged-amazon.html paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01722-6 #paleoart by @markwitton

"the earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent #Gondwana—an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo, & Sahara today... the may have been well adapted to hot, arid environments... #sauropods seemed to retain their preference, keeping to lower latitudes"

#Fossil Discovery Rewrites Global #Dinosaur History https://www.sciencealert.com/fossil-discovery-rewrites-global-dinosaur-history paper: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/203/1/zlae153/7942678

"Ahvaytum bahndooiveche is now the oldest-known dinosaur from #Laurasia, the Northern Hemisphere land mass of the late Paleozoic supercontinent #Pangea... That age places it in a similar time period to #dinosaurs of Pangea's Southern Hemisphere land mass, #Gondwana, which were thought to be the world's first by a long shot."

Gondwana (Paleogeografie 🦕)

Gondwana byl superkontinent, který zahrnoval území dnešní Jižní Ameriky, Afriky, Arábie, Indie, Austrálie a Antarktidy. Zformovala se jako součást většího superkontinentu Pannotie asi před 600 milióny let. Po odtržení Laurentie, Baltiky a Sibiře Pannotie zanikla a zbyla Gondwana – tehdy největší kontinentální blok planety, který sahal od jižního pólu až k obratníku Raka na ...

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana

#Gondwana #Kontinenty #Paleozoikum #Paleogeografie

Takayna’s forests

"Old-growth forests (forests unscathed by industrial-scale human development) are complex places. “They have structural components that are completely absent from a forest that could be 150 or 200 years old, so they’re essential for biodiversity,” says Prof Hugh Possingham, a conservation researcher and Queensland’s former chief scientist. Achieving such structural ecological complexity takes aeons">>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/01/masked-owls-wild-devils-and-giant-crayfish-inside-the-ancient-forests-of-tasmanias-takayna

Land use: Arthur-Pieman Conservation Area, destruction by all-terrain vehicles
https://discover.abc.net.au/index.html?siteTitle=news#/?query=Arthur%20and%20Pieman%20&refinementList%5Bsite.title%5D%5B0%5D=ABC%20News
#Rainforest #oldgrowth #Tasmania #Gondwana #conservation #biodiversity #ATV #destruction