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Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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Trains on tracks

Give the Northern Rivers a fair go on rail I was surprised to see The Echo promoting the Rail Trail...
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Troubled Hastings Point sewage plant upgrade goes back to the community

A long-running battle over the future of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has entered another round, with Tweed Council putting its preferred upgrade option back before the community.
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Ocean Shores golf winners

The Ocean Shores division one team won the clubs first ever NRDGA division one pennant flag.
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Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Call to keep Bangalow Showgrounds in community hands

The Bangalow Park Trust, a volunteer community group that have successfully run the Bangalow Showgrounds since at least the 1950s, say they just want to get on with managing the showgrounds and don’t want Byron Shire Council to take over their role.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Lismore fun run will be bigger than ever

The much-loved Darrel Chapman Fun Run will return to Lismore on Sunday 30 August, with runners and walkers set to start the event on Woodlark Street once again.
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Mullum Gold Club charity day Saturday

This Saturday, 29 August  the Mullumbimby Golf Club (MGC) is hosting its rescheduled MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Charity Day in honour of Steve Ryan.
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Stories about "gliders":

Data shows biggest danger to wildlife is people, not cats

National News The Echo - 0
Human-created hazards are responsible for most wildlife rescues in New South Wales, and researchers are calling for more prevention strategies to save threatened species.
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Citizen science last line of defence for threatened species

National News The Echo - 0
Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.
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Clouds Creek forest protectors convicted

National News The Echo - 7
On Monday, forest campaigners who had been protecting the Clouds Creek Greater Glider Sanctuary at Billy’s Creek, west of the Blicks River on the Dorrigo Plateau, appeared at a hearing in the Coffs Harbour Local Court.
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$15 million to subsidise habitat destruction?

National News The Echo - 3
The recently-released NSW Forestry Corporation’s annual report, which shows that taxpayers will again be asked to spend $15 million to subsidise native forest logging, has today been labelled ‘a damning indictment on our state’.
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Options explored to save Bruns native habitat

Local News The Echo - 4
Byron Council could seek federal government intervention in a last-ditch effort to protect a pocket of precious bushland in Brunswick Heads from development.
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Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

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With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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Katie Milne responds to Tweed’s draft housing and employment strategy

The Echo - 0
The former mayor of Tweed Shire Council, Kate Milne, has shared her submission to Tweed's Draft Growth Management Housing & Employment Strategy.
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