By David Fitzsimons, Central Western Daily website, 29 July 2021 Conservationists opposed to a mountain bike trail park being opened on Mount Canobolas say they are shocked at a new report proposing more trails. Canobolas Conservation Alliance president Dr Colin…
Read More MEDIA REPORT | Orange conservationists ‘appalled’ at Mount Canobolas biking report
Orange City Council’s bike plan for Mt Canobolas is much worse than we thought it would be according to Canobolas Conservation Alliance President, Dr Colin Bower. The plan, revealed in The Central Western Daily (27/07/21), shows Council’s intention is to…
Originally published in the Central Western Daily on 27 July, 2021
The local Orange Aboriginal community say they haven’t been consulted about the proposed bike trails on Mt Canobolas, which is a sacred site, housing many Indigenous cultural artefacts. Neil and Gregory Ingram from the Orange Aboriginal community said the Orange…
Read More MEDIA REPORT | Local Aboriginal community not consulted on bike trails
Mount Canobolas is giving up its secrets. Who knew it had so many? I’ve been exploring parts of ‘The Mountain’ for over forty years and it’s only recently I came to understand how little we really know about it, and…
Read More Feature Article | Secret Treasures of Mt Canobolas
As a major Wiradjuri place, Mt Canobolas was an important occupation site used for the sourcing and sharing of food, medicines and tools, and for corroborees and ceremonies particularly relating to men’s business. To the Wiradjuri people Gaanha-bula is a…
Read More Facebook Video | The Significance of Gaanha-bula (Mt Canobolas) to the Wiradjuri People
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.…
