Orange City Council’s (OCC) plan for a mountain biking centre in the Mt Canobolas State Conservation Area (SCA) is a brazen assault on nature conservation. In the midst of the Sixth Great Extinction of life on Earth, OCC sees no…
Read More Letter to the Editor | Mountain Biking a Brazen Assault on Nature Conservation
Gaanha-bula (Mt Canobolas) is a significant cultural and spiritual place for the Wiradjuri people as a men's initiation site and site for corroboree and ceremonies (burbung). Signs of aboriginal occupation are abundant, including stone tools and flakes from tool-making. Wiradjuri…
Read More Aboriginal Dreaming Story of Gaanha-bula (Mt Canobolas)
The wet and misty peaks of Mount Canobolas are home to ninety species of lichens, encrusting rocks, soil and trees, including four species that occur nowhere else on earth. A rare endemic community dominated by foliose Xanthoparmelia species is listed…
A newly released report by the Canobolas Conservation Alliance (CCA) on the biodiversity values of Mt Canobolas has concluded that significant damage to biodiversity is inevitable if a large-scale mountain biking trail network in the State Conservation Area goes ahead.…
The Canobolas Conservation Alliance has released a new report by environmental consultant, Dr Colin Bower, on the outstanding biodiversity values of the Mt Canobolas State Conservation Area (SCA). The report has been released to Orange City Council and its consultants…
Read More PRESS RELEASE | Conservation Alliance Releases New Report on Mt Canobolas
The summit car park will be sealed and new lookouts and a larger amenities block will be built in a $2 million upgrade of Mount Canobolas announced on Thursday. Work will start in January on the project which will take…
Environmentalists have told Orange City Council to "go back to the drawing board" over a proposal to turn Mount Canobolas into a "mountain biking mecca". On Tuesday, Council floated spending $500,000 from the 2020-21 budget to prepare a development application…
Read More PRESS ARTICLE | Mount Canobolas mountain biking proposal rubbished by environmentalists
TWO years of work following the Mount Canobolas bushfire have lead to the discovery of 79 additional recorded species, from fungi to mammals. National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger Steve Woodhall said staff and volunteers from the Orange Field…
Read More MEDIA REPORT|National Parks, volunteers discover 79 species on Mount Canobolas
Two new threatened orchid species, the Canobolas Leek Orchid (Paraprasophyllum canobolense) and the Pink Spider Orchid (Caladenia boweri), known only from Mt Canobolas, have been formally named by Australia’s foremost authority on orchids, David Jones. Although the existence of the…
National Biodiversity Month was a time to focus on our native flora and fauna, to acknowledge that world-wide, Australia’s reputation for protecting and conserving our unique biodiversity is not great. We celebrated Wattle Day on September 1st and Threatened Species…
Read More EARTH FIRST | September was National Biodiversity Month – Think Local
