I know many of you have been wondering about the outcome of our campaign to save the forest at Manyana. Currently the Ozy Homes development is sitting with the Federal Department of Agriculture and Land, Water and Environment (DAWE) waiting for Ozy Homes to answer the submissions that you all helped generate. There is no timeframe on how long that may take. Which is why I haven't contacted you too much of late. The good part is that over the last two and a half years the forest has been helping all the endangered and threatened species in there, to survive the aftermath of the bushfires. That is in no small part thanks to you.

I have been spending a lot of time out in the burnt forests and though the flora is coming back the silence there is still a stark reminder of the billions of creatures killed during those fires in 2019/2020.

I started this campaign because of the utter devastation I saw while fighting those fires across many firegrounds in NSW, and also my personal experience with a Greater Glider and other endangered species in the unburnt forest at Manyana. Your contribution to the campaign has been an important part of the recognition of the plight of the Greater Glider which brings me to a new fight to save this species from extinction.

Currently, plans are underway to bulldoze a 40 hectare block of prime Greater Glider habitat at Callala Bay NSW (it’s in the Jervis Bay area not too far north of Manyana). This block is incredibly rich in biodiversity and full of Greater Gliders as well as Yellow Bellied Gliders, Feathertail Gliders and many other endangered and vulnerable species. The destruction of this forest at Callala Bay will mean these animals will be killed. They cannot be relocated. To be clear, Australia’s Environmental laws have failed to protect these species and many others.

With your help I want to start a new campaign to stop another senseless development destroying our Greater Gliders and their habitat. To stop them becoming ever closer to extinction. Here is what you can do now to help our friends at Callala.

Find out more on Facebook Callala Environmental Alliance

Go to https://fb.watch/dnLXox4lYL/ to watch Senator Justin Field speak about this.

Make a submission it doesn’t need to be long. It can take as little as a couple of minutes,  go to www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/callalabaypp For a guide on your submission go to the Callala Environmental Alliance Facebook page and look for post May 7 at 4:56 click on see more or any photo, for the submission guide. Deadline is 17 June, less than 2 weeks away!

Please watch these videos produced by the Nature Conservation Council.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ugol28-T4g0&feature=youtu.be   7 minute version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtT5FsAmpj8&feature=youtu.be  90 sec version

What you do is important and counts.  Help us keep up the fight to save our precious Gliders and our environment.

Bill Eger.

Photo Callala Bay Greater Glider.

More photos to come soon.