Dear Sustainable Living members:
Would you please consider signing (i.e. with your name, address and email address) the petition below?
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Regards, Helen Stokes
Save Bishopscourt Reserve
Published for the Friends of Bishopscourt Reserve by Helen Stokes, 15 Burgess St. Armidale. Nov. 2012
Petition background (Preamble):
Bishopscourt Reserve is the last remaining piece of public reserve on the top ridge of South Hill to the south west. It is in the north-west corner at the crossroad of Bona Vista Road and Burgess Street.
Armidale Dumaresq Council wants to sell the western section of the reserve for housing.
Residents want to keep it intact as a bushland park and part of a wildlife corridor.
The beautiful angophora trees in the eastern part will be better able to regenerate if their seedlings can grow in the more open western section, where they will have less competition.
There are also remnant red gum, yellow box and white box trees on the reserve. These trees together with the angophoras provide food and shelter for birds, insects, and small animals like sugar gliders and microbats.
Koalas have been seen in the area this spring, also an echidna and kangaroos. Koalas are always on the move, travelling between the gorge country and Mount Duval and Black Mountain, so are using the reserve trees en route. Wildlife will be safer if the whole block is conserved and they can congregate in the centre.
To have this lovely place, like the Snow Gums Bushland Reserve and Manna Gums Bushland Reserve, on the edge of town will be something all Armidale can be proud of.
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