Letters Wetlands appears to be the most significant. Councillors, the Byron Environment Centre (BEC) joins the calls to reassess support for the Byron bypass. John Lazarus Convener BEC
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Byron paradise paved I find it somewhat ironic that a tribute to Joni Mitchell was the first film I saw at the new Byron Palace cinema, where they paved paradise and put up a massive parking lot (and Woolies). Phoebe Havyatt Byron Bay
Bypass In 2001, a National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) ‘have you seen this snail’ advert was about a Byron Bay snail identified as a Mitchells Rainforest Snail. Apart from a colony on a Tweed River island, little was known of this snail, except
that the once-widespread snail was now largely locally extinct. It is listed as critically endangered. Since the ad Byron locals have recorded further sightings with NPWS. Virtually all snail sightings have been recorded in, and on the periphery of, the Cumbebin Wetland where the Byron Bay ‘bypass’ is proposed to be built. Globally there’s an extinction crisis. In Australia we have a wildlife extinction crisis of our unique species. Our Shire is the one of the last habitats for this critically endangered snail. The snail has only survived where its habitat remains undeveloped and
unpolluted, and where vegetated access remains across the landscape. We’ve done well, till now. The governance of this species’ capacity to survive is significantly this Shires responsibility. The Tweed River island colony is at risk from climate change. The bypass will both destroy wetland snail habitat and form an elevated rockbase road barrier isolating its habitat. The road’s polluted runoff will further sabotage the snails’ habitat. The bio-banking assessment fails to state that the region contains only a few isolated recorded colonies, of which the Cumbebin
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Railway Park in Byron Bay will be fenced off while work begins on a $2m+ upgrade. In this bland announcement are no details of the fate of the iconic Rotunda that has held pride of place in Railway Park since 2002. The Master(s of the Universe)Plan for the town centre has other ideas for this revered cultural landmark. It will be sidelined along the northern boundary next to the public toilets! That Byron’s Green council allows the Byron Environment Centre, the Rotunda’s caretakers for 17 years, to be displaced in this disrespectful way adds to growing community disquiet about the ethics of the present councillors and the staff that serves them. Jill Keogh Ocean Shores ▜ More letters on next page
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