Nesting Box Project at Wyargine Reserve.
Some of the nesting boxes for Mosman Parks & Bushland’s Nesting Box Project were installed at Wyargine Reserve and we continue to monitor them.
What is Mosman Parks & Bushland? What do we do? How do we do it?
Mosman Parks & Bushland was invited by Mosman’s Community Librarian in February 2021 to present an overview of the work of the Association for a Local Studies Live FaceBook event
Mosman successfully fought forced Council amalgamation.
Residents, including Mosman Parks& Bushland were strongly opposed to the idea of amalgamation.
Rawson Slopes Bush Corridor.
In 2019 Mosman Council, encouraged by Mosman Parks & Bushland, applied for and received a grant from our Federal member, Zali Steggall to create a bush corridor on the slopes between Alexander Avenue and Rawson Oval.
10 Terminal Renewal Project.
In December 2020 the Harbour Trust sought community feedback on their 10 Terminal and Parklands Renewal Project on Middle Head. There will be further opportunities for feedback and comments in 2021.
Biala Aboriginal Hostel for girls - a garden makeover.
The committee team, assisted by the Northern Beaches bushcare officer got to work with some heavy weeding, mulching, native plantings and last of all some flower power.
Carbon Zero: choose clean air, clean water & clean energy.
Mosman Parks & Bushland members and President, Kate Eccles, were among thousands who protested against coal on 24 March 2018.
Recognising the legacy of Audrey Lenning.
Mosman Parks & Bushland unveiled a plaque dedicated to the memory of Audrey Lenning on 7 December 2017. Read the speech delivered on the occasion by Kate Eccles, President, MPBA.
Sue Halmagyi: an advocate for the protection of public land.
Sue and the Association were passionate in the belief that public land should be retained and enhanced for the benefit of the public.
Audrey Lenning: a passionate conservationist.
In 1964 Audrey Lenning was a foundation member of the Association and, for the rest of her life, was an active campaigner for the protection of bushland and open space.
Local councils supported by their communities are more effective.
Mosman Council supported by the local community will be significantly more effective than a distant council with little connection with the locality or the community.
The use of synthetic [plastic] turf on sports playing fields.
We do not believe the use of synthetic turf is in the interest of the natural environment or of the general public's enjoyment of its parkland. Mosman Parks & Bushland opposes the use of synthetic turf on sports ovals.
STOP Code 10/50 Protest.
On Monday 24 November 2014 a STOP Code 10/50 Protest was held outside the then NSW Premier Mike Baird’s electoral office in Manly.
Mosman Parks & Bushland celebrates 50th Anniversary.
On 25 October 2014 the Association celebrated 50 years of protecting parks, bushland and open space and the development of a system of bush regeneration, known as the Bradley Method.
Bush regeneration – where it all began.
Volunteers have been helping restore this unique patch of sandstone heathland, which honours the Bradley sisters, Eileen and Joan, who invented the concept of bush regeneration in the 1960s.
Eileen and Joan Bradley.
The Mosman Parks & Bushland Association had its gestation due to the work of Eileen Burton Bradley and Joan Burton Bradley, bush regenerators.
Mosman Parks & Bushland Association 1964-2014.
A talk given by Ann Cook, a committee member of the Mosman Parks & Bushland Association, to the Mosman Historical Society in September 2014.
Barry O’Keefe: committed to bushland conservation.
Former Mayor of Mosman, the late Barry O’Keefe (20 May 1933 – 24 April 2014), told some wonderful stories about working with the Bradley Sisters in an interview he gave for Mosman Library.
Guide to the Bradleys Head area.
This is an excellent guide written by the Mosman Historical Society in 2010, about the Bradleys Head area, including Sirius Cove, Athol Bay, Bradleys Head itself and around the point to Taylors Bay.