Diggers Beach is located in #Coffs Coast Regional Park. Masked lapwings patrol the surfline. White-faced Herons pick their way through the dunes and White breasted sea eagles soar over the beach. The flowering coastal banksias are overpowered with flocks of Lorikeets.The Horsetail Casuarinas are rich with seeds for the Glossy Black #Cockatoos.
The beach is supposed to be dog free, as dogs are not permitted in National Parks and Nature Reserves. Locals regularly set their pets free on this beach. Like all other NSW beaches there is never any enforcement.
The beach is buffered by a thin strip of native vegetation separating it from the many car parks and picnic areas behind it. The official beach access is via two #ViewingPlatforms. The two major #loookouts have been constructed to lead motorists to these platforms so they can see. Every few meters impatient people/ motorists have trailblazed numerous extra trails to the beach and bush in between the designated viewing platforms. Each newly made trail slowly erodes. The mostly native vegetation scaffolding the dunes from ocean storms is eroding. Large banksias and huge pandanus topple down the dunes.
Additionally, the absence of effective #ClimateAction increases the #CoastalErosion damage. The tourist infrastructure collapses. The constructions crumble like cardboard and the foundational pillars are exposed and washed down the beach. Various anthropogenic rubble is then sloshed along the beach.
Beach erosion: Satellites reveal how climate cycles impact #coastlines
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-beach-erosion-satellites-reveal-climate.html
Australia's new 2030 emissions reduction target remains one of the weakest in the developed world.
https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/new-global-climate-ranking-sees-australia-go-from-dead-last-to-far-from-pass/
#Coastal #Erosion #NSW #DiggersBeach #CoffsHarbour #Biodiversity #DoNothing #Climate #Coal
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