BellingenNSWBellingen Update in two parts:
Part 2/2
The increased human encroachment on living beings 'out there' in the bush consitutes an existential threat. The vehicular disturbance of noise, light and vibrations from vehicles causes stress and alters their behaviour. Road noise and/or vibration is believed to disrupt communication in birds. Motor noise is audible over 200m penetrating the environment. Species adjacent to roads flee the area.
The fragmentation of their home or loss of habitat can put yet another species on the extinction list. Survivors have a bigger chance to get under someone's wheels as #roadkill.
The once closed canopy above some roads gave the koalas some connectivity. The new widening does not provide any canopy bridges. A good way to undo the NSW #koala strategy.
In #Bellingen town the many logging trucks and heavy machinery shooting through the blissful latte strip of #HydeSt. go unnoticed. The surrounding #forests with their inhabitants are perceived as mere material for economic #Exploitation. #Deforestation, #BiodiversityLoss, #Extinctions and #Climate disruption are not yet on/at the level of the military dictatorships of the Amazon or Myanmar, but one has to keep up with the neighbours.
The Sisyphus 'highway to hell' is paving the way to go past the 1.5C threshold. 'Upgraded' roads speed up the destruction and extraction. A hotter, dryer climate will invite more mega #fires. It's the fast-track towards extinction.
Pt 1
https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110388410575056761
#BellingenLogging #PanicLogging #River #care #NorthBankRoad #BellingenShireCouncil #NoFootpaths ##NoBikePaths #Mobility #Bushfires #GKNP #Biodiversity #Runoff #Platypus #BellingerRiverSnappingTurtle
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Attached: 2 images Bellingen Update in two parts: Part 1/2 #Bellingen has been undergoing radical road widening and "Panic logging” for many months. A desperate attempt to convert narrow, windy and sloping forest roads into a wide and straight 'highway' to suit heavy road trains and extraction machinery. The new all-season road will enhance #deforestation and the flow of motorised tourists. It is said. The nexus #GlenifferRd and #RosesRoad and are being worked on most intensively with #Fossilfuel and a generous amount of a tar-like substance. On some roads the shoulders are shaved of all vegetation to widen it by 2-3 m on either side. This is supposed to convey the illusion that the road is very wide. On others, bulldozers push the 'dirt' and vegetation (and its habitants) down the 'ditch' (Bellinger River or small creeks) Decorative small sandbags are placed sparingly apparently as #SiltControl. The recent rain makes the slimy bare red soil run off, #erosion and #weeds will follow with a vengeance. This is fossil fuel landscaping at its finest. Matting or replanting seems not in sight. Weeds love this disturbed area. For road users and residents this intensification means detours, various traffic lights, diesel generators, heavy diesel machinery, blockages of the existing rural roads for months and months. Dump trucks and bulldozers add to the ambient #pollution of the air, soil, aquatic systems and living entities. Pt 2 https://mastodon.au/@Bellingen/110388463643213945