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Volume 3 #20 Thursday, January 27, 2011 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 editor@tweedecho.com.au adcopy@tweedecho.com.au www.tweedecho.com.au
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LOCAL & INDEPENDENT
Biosphere status urged for Tweed
Rose, Young Achiever using her brains
Murray Simpson
received a Year 12 Rotary prize for citMr McDonald received recogniizenship and the Defence Force Long tion for his services to the cattle inThe strange world of teenagers’ brains Tan leadership and teamwork award. dustry and his commitment to the Tweed River region, while Judith is a constant source of fascination to Terkelsen has been noted for her young Uki livewire Rose Spiller (pic- Citizen of the Year Winner of the Tweed Citizen of work in the field of childhood early tured above). Rose, 18, is this year’s winner of the Year was Lorraine Grennan for intervention and learning. Mr McDonald was a member of the Young Achiever section of the her work with the Murwillumbah Tweed Shire Australia Day awards. chapter of Compassionate Friends the Royal Panel of Judges of the Australian Jersey Herd Society and ofHers was one of seven awards pre- (see picture, page 2). Also awarded yesterday were palli- ficiated as a royal judge at the royal sented yesterday at a ceremony at ative care supporter Edna Gorton of shows of Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide Bogangar Public School. A graduate of Mt St Patrick Col- Uki, Caldera Artfest founder Andy and Melbourne. He is a past president and life lege, Rose plans heading to Griffith Reimanis, sporting all-rounder Sean University this year to study psy- Garner of Terranora, Tumbulgum member of the Tweed-Richmond Public School’s soccer team and the Jersey Breeders Association and was chology. the youngest of 35 members elected ‘I’m specially interested in youth Kids In Need dragon boat regatta. to the Tweed River Agricultural Sowork and teenage brain developOAM awards ciety committee, serving as president ment,’ she says. Rose was a member of the Youth Two well-known Tweed residents for 12 years. Ms Terkelson has been a director Using Their Heads committee which have been honoured with Order of liaises with the Tweed Shire Council Australia awards for their contribu- and teacher at Tweed Valley Early Childhood Intervention Service to organise alcohol-free Youth Week tions to the community. activities. Longtime jersey breeder John since 1984. Her involvement with the serShe also volunteers for the You ‘Ken’ McDonald from MurwillumHave a Friend group that provides bah and childhood expert Judith vice includes Tweed Shire Planning support and food for the homeless. Terkelsen have been recognised in Group Families NSW, Far North At Mt St Pats she was on the stu- the general division of the Order of Coast Early Childhood Intervention dent representative council and won Australia Medal announced by Gov- Collegiate and many other groups and services. an honour award for leadership. She ernment House in Canberra. Murray Simpson
A grand plan to have the Tweed Valley declared a ‘biosphere reserve’ has been launched by the Caldera Environment Centre. But it has nothing to do with Disneyland-type glass bubbles, says coordinator Edward ‘Hop. e’ Hopkins. ‘We want to become part of a global network of biospheres promoted by UNESCO,’ he said. ‘There are 546 biospheres worldwide in 109 countries and 15 in Australia. ‘We’re looking at biosphere status for the Border Ranges and Noosa to provide a green belt, or lungs, at either end of the urbanised strip we call the Moreton Basin megalopolis – centred on Brisbane but including the Sunshine and Gold Coasts. ‘That’s approximately 250 kilometres of concrete and bitumen. ‘Give us a break. Give peace a chance.’ Mr Hopkins said the biosphere project piggybacked on other intiatives such as the Border Ranges Rainforest Biodiversity Management Plan recently compiled by state and federal government agencies. ‘We see the biosphere concept as an aspirational model. It has no compulsion but relies on grassroots support from below as well commonwealth backing from above.’ To press its case, the Caldera Environment Centre is circulating a petition to generate a groundswell of support. ‘This is necessary to progress the idea to the level where UNESCO accreditation is sought,’ Mr Hopkins said. The biosphere reserve envisages taking in the Mt Warning caldera,
the McPherson and Border ranges and possibly even the marine reserve off Byron Bay. It will spill from Tweed shire to Byron, Lismore, Kyogle and Northern Rivers shire councils and will link with Queensland’s scenic rim scheme which runs down to the border. ‘It all centres on the biodiversity hot-spot we have where the McPherson and Border ranges meet roughly at the head of the Limpinwood Valley,’ he said.
Rarest of the rare ‘We’ve got species there that exist nowhere else.’ The roots of the biosphere reserve network go back to the Club of Rome, in 1972, where economists agreed current rates of development were unsustainable, and the ground-breaking Earth Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNESCO launched its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program in 1970 and the notion of a global network of sites was one of its earliest projects. These sites were to represent the main ecosystems of the planet in which genetic resources would be protected. The reserves were to foster conservation, sustainable development and form a base for research and education. Mr Hopkins said the Tweed reserve would have three zones – a core area, a buffer zone and a transition zone. ‘Only the core area requires legal protection and would correspond to existing protected areas such as nature reserves or national parks.’ He said UNESCO did not require any change of law or ownership; each biosphere had its own system of governance to ensure it met its objectives.
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