Support National Parks for Nature*

I believe a serious threat to nature is posed by the amendments to the NSW Wilderness Act and the National Parks and Wildlife Act proposed by sections of Government and the tourism industry, and call on the Premier Kristina Keneally not to deviate from the following principles:

• Nature conservation will remain the primary function of National Parks^# and Wilderness Areas,
• The cost of visiting these precious areas is kept small, so that parks remain accessible to everyone as the most democratic spaces we have, free of elite commercial precincts;
• No new buildings for accommodation are constructed in national parks, and that the NPWS continues to protect our parks from development, except for appropriately located car parks, toilets, walking tracks and basic camping facilities, and for some suitable parks, a visitor centre;
• Plans of management will continue to regulate the ecologically appropriate use of national parks through open and transparent community participation processes, with no fast track or other special park laws for the tourism industry; and that
• Wilderness areas must remain undisturbed and free of all infrastructure, commercial uses and large numbers of people, where natural processes can thrive and visitors can renew their spirit.

  If you agree with the above statement, just send me a reply email and enclose your name
     and address. I will ensure that you are added to the Parks for Nature Petition to
     Premier Reeves as stated above.

  In addition, please print out the Petition to NSW Parliament and get everyone you know to
    sign it and then post it back to me at the address below. I will forward these petitions on
    to a supporting Parliamentarian.

  Also, please let me know if you would like to be kept up to date on developments in this
    campaign, so I can ‘keep you in loop.’

Sincerely,

Keith Muir
Colong Foundation for Wilderness
Level 2, 332 Pitt Street,
Sydney, NSW, 2000

*Colong has decided not to use an e-petition website. Anonymous respondents can make multiple registrations on such petitions that can discredit genuine representations.

^#National Parks as used here is a generic term for all types of parks reserved under the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974. 

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