Monday, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:11
This is a cut n paste (from the Tele I think)- but on the radio Mr Rees did mention it would limit 4WDing (and other activities)..
.A GREEN chain now encircles
Sydney with the declaration today that 120,000 hectares of bushland north of the city will be protected as wilderness.
As his government continues to implode around him, Premier Nathan Rees took to the Hunter Valley this morning to announce the addition of the bushland in
Yengo National Park to the State's wilderness register.
The parcel of land which stretches from the Blue Mountains east to Windsor and up to
Singleton.completes a ring of wilderness that now surround
Sydney like a green arc.
“We have now created a network of wilderness areas around the state which protect more than two million hectares of unique bushland for future generations,” Mr Rees said.
“Around
Sydney we have a green chain made up of Nattai, Kanangra-Boyd, Grose, Wollemi and Yengo wilderness areas.
“Wilderness declaration is the highest form of protection for natural landscapes and protects the most intact expanses of our remaining bushland.
“The latest declaration over the most pristine part of
Yengo National Park will protect many threatened plant and animal species.
“Aboriginal, environment and recreational park users were all consulted during the comprehensive process to identify and declare the newly protected area."
• A total of 8.39% (6.7 million hectares) of NSW is now conserved within the parks system, made up of 793 national park and reserve areas
• Since 1995 the NSW Government has established more than 455 new
reserves and expanded hundreds of others.
• NSW has 49 declared wilderness areas within national parks and
reserves
• Total area of declared wilderness is 2,057,759 hectares, or just over 2% of NSW, up from 664,000 hectares in 1995.
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