North Head Sanctuary Foundation
is working with Government agencies
towards the establishment of
Car-rang-gel Sanctuary
on North Head
at the gateway of Sydney Harbour
- a flagship for Australia's
environmental resolve
and a celebration of
our natural and cultural heritage.
Car-rang-gel Sanctuary on North Head, Sydney
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Newsletters:
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Weeding the oval
January/February 2012
World Wetlands Day Walk Feb 2; Official opening of Bandicoot Heaven; Weeding Day Feb 5; Planting Day Feb 16 4:30pm followed by General Meeting Feb 16 7pm; Weeding on oval Nov 2011;Third Cemetery; Dampiera Stricta

Signpost near arch
March 2012
Signpost at Blue Fish Rd to North Head Sanctuary; Xanthorrhoea seedlings; Climate Watch Walk Mar 4; Planting Day Mar 11; Childcare Centre comments due; Fire in 1936; Third Cemetery - Alice Lawler; Themeda australis
 
Echidna on North Head
April 2012
Weeding day 16th April; Caf� at North Fort to open 5th April; Eco awards for Mary Johnsen and Peter Nash; Climate Watch walks; Echidna; Fires on North Head in 1931; 3rd Cemetery - Richard W. Smith, Aseroe rubra.

Is it oil?

May 2012
Speaker - May 19 - Insects; bandicoot tracking; climate watch; 3rd Cemetery C.W.Smart; North Fort; Is it oil on the water?; Cassytha species


Bubonic plague victim
June 2012
Funding for new research project; Author talk at Manly Art Gallery; Acacia suaveolens; Farewell from one of our volunteers; Planting Day in June; Walls of North Head; Third Cemetery - William James Harden

Nursery group farewell
July 2012
AGM 7pm Aug 14; Memberships due; Spring Wildflower Walks; North Head Sanctuary Champions; Childcare Centre; Acacia myrtifolia; Climate Watch Walks; Third Cemetery - Joseph Franklin Jun; Farewell Sue

James Miller Wilson

August 2012
AGM - speaker Fran Bodkin; Spring bushwalks; Patersonia sericea; a day in the life of a volunteer; Third Cemetery - James Miller Wilson, aged 7; volunteer to help with bandicoots; History 1933-5 - North Head designated as a wildflower garden but then needed for defence


Duck family
on hanging swamp

September 2012
Spring walks; Leucopogon ericoides;  duck family on hanging swamp; The Bad Old Days; New commitee; Third Cemetery - John O'Neill; 1898 construction of sewer pipes and pathway from Manly to Shelly Beach.

Controlled burn

October 2012
Hazard reduction burns; whale watching; Hibbertia diffusa; Third Cemetery - Francis Jackson; research taking place after the burns

Spring walk

November 2012
10yr celebration; Splendour of Spring; planting on the oval; Aunty Fran talk available online; North Fort Memorial dedication; Ocean Care Day; Blue Fish burn revelation; Calochilus; Third Cemetery - Chinese burial; echidna

10 year celebration
December 2012
10 year celebration of North Head Sanctuary Foundation; Ocean Care Day; My North Head by Janet Fish; Third Cemetery - World War I returnees; Billardia scandens


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

January/February 2012


Dampiera stricta  Photo: Jenny Wilson
February 2008

Boronia ledifolia
Boronia ledifolia Photo: Geoff Lambert
March 2012


Themeda australis Photo: J Wilson
 April 2012


Aseroe rubra Photo: J Wilson
 May 2012


Cassytha species Photo: J Wilson

June 2012


Acacia suaveolens Photo: J Wilson
July 2012


Acacia myrtifolia Photo J. Wilson
 August 2012


Patersonia sericea Photo: J Wilson
 September 2012


Leucopogon ericoides Photo: J. Wilson
October 2012


Hibbertia diffusa  Photo: J. Wilson
November 2012


Calochilus  Photo: Jenny Wilson
December 2012


Billardia scandens  Photo: J. Wilson
 
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North Head Sanctuary Foundation, P.O.Box 506, Balgowlah, NSW 2093

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