Community Environmental Support

Our local environmental groups are to be congratulated for their commitment to the restoration and rehabilitation of our headlands and coastal reserves.

Tweed Landcare and Fingal Head Coast Care continue to receive funding for weed control, revegetation of damaged riparian areas, and restoring and protecting Fingal Headland, Themeda Grasslands, and significant bird habitats.

Tweed Byron Aboriginal Land Council has become the first Land Council in NSW to be appointed to manage culturally significant land at Fingal Head, which is a special cultural place connected to many other significant cultural sites throughout and beyond our shire.

This appointment will see the Land Council continue to preserve and rehabilitate the area’s biodiversity, including bush regeneration, protecting native species, and wildlife.

Green Heroes, a wildlife conservation and education organisation, has become a key stakeholder in Marine Turtle Conservation. It recently received a grant to develop a pilot code of conduct for the interaction with, and the protection of, turtles in the Cook Island Aquatic Reserve.

Working with our local Aboriginal Land Council rangers and local community members, Green Heroes developed an incubator for use as a trial to help save the eggs that Loggerhead turtles have laid late in the season. This trial proved successful and many baby turtles have been saved, hatched, and returned to the wild.