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…
In last Saturday's Central Western Daily Orange City Council announced the successful tenderer to do an environmental impact statement for a mountain bike track on Mount Canobolas. As well as producing an environmental impact statement the successful applicant is charged with…
Read More PRESS ARTICLE | Earth First – Canobolas Environmental Impact Study
Orange conservationists are preparing for a long battle to protect Mt Canobolas from mountain biking. The Canobolas Conservation Alliance, until now a loose coalition of local environment groups, formally adopted a constitution and elected office bearers on Monday. Newly elected…
Read More PRESS RELEASE | Conservationists Gear Up for Fight to Save Mt Canobolas
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
Four rare greenhood orchids have been rediscovered on Mount Canobolas by members of the Orange Field Naturalist and Conservation Society. After a hot and dry spring and summer, rains in autumn have spawned the Antelope Greenhood (Diplodium laxum), Scarlet…
Read More PRESS ARTICLE | Four species of autumn greenhood orchids rediscovered on Mt Canobolas
