Ku-ring-gai is a place of high biodiversity. It is one of the few areas of Sydney that still retains its majestic carbon-rich urban forests, tree canopy, bushland valleys and stunning displays of gardens that are wildlife corridors and habitat for unique mammals, birds, reptiles, frogs and insects. It is also surrounded by three national parks.

This is something the NSW Government should celebrate and conserve. Yet the NSW Government is determined to destroy it – even in the midst of a biodiversity crisis.

Watch Ku-ring-gai Council’s Urban Forest EnviroTube below:

What is causing the degradation and loss of Ku-ring-gai’s biodiversity?

• habitat being destroyed and broken up (fragmented) due to land clearing for houses and apartments
• introduction of invasive plants, animals, and diseases as a result of urban densification
• climate change
• pollution (chemicals, sediments, plastics, light and sound)

Ku-ring-gai is of national significance and should also be protected by the Federal Government.

2020	Australia’s Sixth National Report to the Convention on Biological Diversity
July 2022	Tanya Plibersek, Federal Environment Minister commits Australia to protecting 30% of its lands and 30% of oceans by 2030
Nov 2022	UN climate summit kept alive hopes of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius
Dec 2022	Australian Government joins 195 other nations in signing onto the adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The target of GBF is to protect at least 30% of the world’s land, freshwater and ocean ecosystems by 2030 (‘30×30’) – a target both the Australian Federal government and NSW Government committed to domestically
Dec 2023	NSW Government announced its Transport Oriented Development program, Low to Mid Rise Housing and Dual Occupancies that will effectively upzone Ku-ring-gai by 90% and destroy its tree canopy