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February 16, 2025
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Cartoon of the week – February 12, 2025

The letters deadline for The Echo is noon Friday. Letters longer than 200 words may be cut. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letters editor.

Drive a red truck and be a hero!

Members of the public are being sought to help their communities at the Bangalow and Byron Bay Fire Stations, with paid positions on offer for on-call firefighters.

Bangalow’s heritage under pressure

The proposed demolition/relocation of a home in Banglaow that had previously been classified as voluntary heritage listed by Council has sparked concerns from residents.

A human with a purpose

Humans of Purpose is honoured to host David Whyte, internationally-renowned poet, philosopher and speaker in Byron Bay this weekend.

Lismore remembers Simone Strobel on 20th anniversary of murder

About 50 people gathered in Lismore's Quad yesterday to remember the young visitor from Germany who lost her life in the city 20 years ago.

Celebrate International Women’s Day at the Lismore Women’s Festival

Northern Rivers Women and Children's Services Inc. (NORWACS) is proud to announce the Lismore Women's Festival, a vibrant and inclusive event celebrating women, will be held on  Saturday, 8 March  at the Quad in Lismore from  9am to 4pm.

Stories about "Bush Regeneration":

Environmentalist Shirley White remembered

One of the key people behind the regeneration of the coastal strip of Angels Beach and Ballina was Shirley White, who died recently.

Reviving the Big Scrub, one tree at a time

Local not-for-profit reforestation group, ReForest Now, has celebrated the planting of 311,000 in just three years, and say they have 58 hectares of bush regeneration underway.

Mullum’s riverbank undergoes bush regeneration

A collaboration between Mullumbimby High and Byron Council will soon see bush regeneration along 500m of the Mullumbimby Creek, which meanders behind the school.

Capturing carbon, nature’s way

One of the best ways to mitigate climate change is to capture carbon – by tree planting, of course! Shearwater Steiner School in Mullumbimby is getting hands on with its students and getting their hands in the dirt.

Greens’ $31 million plan for Githabul forest program

Greens NSW environment spokesperson Cate Faehrmann and the party’s Lismore candidate Sue Higginson have announced a $31.5 million ten-year plan to transfer care and control of almost 30,000 hectares of state forests north of Kyogle to the Githabul Tribe.

ReForest Now’s very important earth mission

More than 2,800 seedlings and thousands of rainforest seeds have been saved by local not-for-profit group ReForest Now, which has recently completed a brand new rainforest tree nursery at the Mullumbimby Community Gardens.

Landcare funding slashed 80 per cent

An environmental volunteer co-ordination network that supports on-ground Landcare groups to restore degraded public and private land says  there has been a sharp decline in government funding.

New native planting guide will help gardeners make savvy choices

Home gardeners, landscape architects and those who are passionate about bush regeneration can now jump online and use the new Tweed-Byron Native Species Planting Guide to choose the right plant for the right place.

Making peace with the weeds

Byron Shire Chemical Free Landcare volunteers have been working for the past eight years on a five-hectare dune-regeneration project just south of Brunswick Surf Club.

Native timber showcase and design competition launches

In an ambitious project to both regenerate local rainforest and create a market for native timbers environmentalists and farmers have come together to create the inaugural Sustainable Native Timber Showcase and Design Competition and are asking locals to get involved.

Trump Tower

I can see it 50 years from now, Trump Tower, the tallest building on Earth, a giant gold-plated phallus rising hundreds of meters from...

Farmers’ markets

I’m Louis and I’m ten years old. I love the Byron Farmers Market and have been going all my life. As mentioned in a previous...

Bill and Carol and Mandy

Given the content of Mandy’s story about her parents’ Vietnamese ‘intruder,’ I’d love to have had the opportunity to retitle her story, ‘Empathy, Kindness,...

V-Day welcomes the sun for 2025

Around 140 women came together at Byron's Main Beach this morning to dance, celebrate, and dip into the water as part of the annual...