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EcoNetwork’s Annual General Meeting 2024 Hosted by the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, it was wonderful to have EcoNetwork’s Annual General Meeting embedded within their Celebrating Birds event. We would like particularly like to thank …   Read more

Aboriginal Place for Mambo-Wanda By Kathy Brown, Mambo-Wanda Wetlands Conservation Group. In June this year I wrote an email on behalf of the Mambo-Wanda Wetlands Conservation Group to Port Stephens …   Read more

We started this year’s EcoUpdate with a marine theme, then eucalypts and this time, Bird is the Word! I’m excited to announce that tickets are now available for EcoNetwork’s second Bird Forum.   Read more

We would like to challenge the opinion piece written by local developer Jeff McCloy on 15 th September 2023. On the 23rd August 2023, Commissioner Bish, following a hearing in the NSW Land and Environment Court, handed down her decision on the Kings Hill Development Concept Plan.   Read more

We propose that the Federal & State Governments combine resources to ensure Kings Hill land is protected in perpetuity as a conservation area/extension of National Park estate. The proponent may well submit further …   Read more

Media Release – Save Wallaroo State Forest! Another Quarry in Port Stephens is too much for any Koala to bear! A coalition of community groups met in Raymond Terrace on …   Read more

On Schools Tree Day this year, local Landcare groups Mambo-Wanda Wetlands and Soldiers Point-Salamander Bay (SPSB), joined Tomaree High School in a joint weed-and-plant event.   Read more

The Kings Hill Urban Release Area (KHURA) is in the Port Stephens LGA, 8km north of Raymond Terrace. To give you an idea of scale, the map below spans an area between Six Mile Rd and Newline Rd and has a border with the Pacific Highway.   Read more

EcoNetwork’s newest business affiliate, Readers Retreat, has recently opened its doors. This local independent bookstore has already established links with two other EcoNetwork affiliates, the Raymond Terrace branch of Boomerang Bags and Salamander Bay Recycling.   Read more