Our local community in Shoalhaven deeply values the unique natural environment we are blessed with. We are concerned about the harmful impacts of the Princes Highway upgrades on the precious wildlife in our region. 

The Princes Highway is a major coastal road in Australia, connecting Sydney through Victoria to Adelaide. 

With billions planned to be spent on Princes Highway upgrades in the next decade, we are calling on state and federal governments to plan for best practice wildlife corridors to connect our bushland and keep animals and people safe from collisions.

We’ve already seen how roadkill rose by up to 65% as a result of upgrades of the Foxground and Berry Bypass. We don’t want that to be replicated as the Princes Highway upgrades sweep south. Unfortunately the governments seem to be going for bare minimum which is not good enough.

Many sections of the highway south of Nowra pass through forested areas that provide crucial homes and food for our wildlife. We don’t support intrusion into these habitats without providing wildlife protection and wildlife crossings that meet global best practice.

Our beautiful forests are home to multiple threatened species, like the Yellow-bellied Glider and the Grey-headed Flying-fox. Our government must learn from the failures of the Foxground and Berry Bypass that resulted in an unacceptable number of wildlife deaths.

We must do all we can to ensure existing biodiversity habitat corridors are protected. We need to do this not just for our animals, but to preserve our future as well.