Re: The Exploitation of Kosciuszko National Park
Posted: Fri 20 Aug, 2021 8:54 am
Hi All. It’s James McCormack, Editor of Wild Magazine. I hope this doesn’t break any forum rules by posting about some of our content here, but I think it’s genuinely relevant and will help the community in fighting the highly troubling elements of these proposals.
We’ve put up a page on our site
https://wild.com.au/opinion/your-mountains-need-you/
that gives a primer on what’s at stake here with these developments, and has links to other blogs on the subject like the fine ones from Cam Walker at Mountain Journal, and by Jed Coppa. We’ve urged Wild readers and the community in general to make submissions, and to do what they can to fight this. Virtually none of us here want swarms of choppers buzzing overhead, want vehicles along walking tracks in the high country, want the quiet ambience of Island Bend shattered, or want 'skywalks' like the one highlighted by Zapruda at the start of this thread. And that's just a few of the many egregious developments proposed. Anyway, our page also gives links to how and where to make submissions.
And while we’re at it, on an entirely related issue, for those who may have missed it, here are the links for a two-part story ‘Luxury Lodges = Wilderness Lost’ we’ve run over recent issues fighting developments and privatisation within national parks, in particular, the creation of luxury lodges, both private and public.
https://wild.com.au/conservation/luxury ... ness-lost/
https://wild.com.au/conservation/luxury ... st-part-2/.
Together they form a massive piece of work, more than 11,000 words in total, that goes beyond just the issue of lodges, and looks at the forces at work attacking national parks around the country, the same forces that are shaping these KNP proposals. I genuinely think that those who haven't read these two pieces yet will find them illuminating. And will probably make them quite angry, too.
Thanks, James.
We’ve put up a page on our site
https://wild.com.au/opinion/your-mountains-need-you/
that gives a primer on what’s at stake here with these developments, and has links to other blogs on the subject like the fine ones from Cam Walker at Mountain Journal, and by Jed Coppa. We’ve urged Wild readers and the community in general to make submissions, and to do what they can to fight this. Virtually none of us here want swarms of choppers buzzing overhead, want vehicles along walking tracks in the high country, want the quiet ambience of Island Bend shattered, or want 'skywalks' like the one highlighted by Zapruda at the start of this thread. And that's just a few of the many egregious developments proposed. Anyway, our page also gives links to how and where to make submissions.
And while we’re at it, on an entirely related issue, for those who may have missed it, here are the links for a two-part story ‘Luxury Lodges = Wilderness Lost’ we’ve run over recent issues fighting developments and privatisation within national parks, in particular, the creation of luxury lodges, both private and public.
https://wild.com.au/conservation/luxury ... ness-lost/
https://wild.com.au/conservation/luxury ... st-part-2/.
Together they form a massive piece of work, more than 11,000 words in total, that goes beyond just the issue of lodges, and looks at the forces at work attacking national parks around the country, the same forces that are shaping these KNP proposals. I genuinely think that those who haven't read these two pieces yet will find them illuminating. And will probably make them quite angry, too.
Thanks, James.