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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If you would like to receive North Head Sanctuary Foundation newsletters via your email from now on, just ask to be put on the mailing list by contacting: northhead@fastmail.com.au

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Memorial Walk
Memorial Walk
January 2020
Manly's 26th Ocean Care Day; Australia's memorial walk; Manly to Bondi Walk; Australian Brush Turkey; Third Cemetery - cases of plague
Indigenous dancers
Indigenous dancers performing on North Head on January 26.
February 2020
General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin; Aboriginal use of Grevillea buxifolia; new botanical greeting cards available in Building 20;  Invasion Day ceremony on North Head on January 26; Independent review of Sydney Harbour Federation Trust; Rainfall statistics for North Head; Third Cemetery - plague victims in 1900.
Caper White Butterfly
Caper White Butterfly
March 2020
General meeting, March 7 at 2pm - speaker Aunty Fran Bodkin; Native Plant Nursery - plantings and overflowing frog pond during the rain; North Head birdlife; Caper White butterfly; 1939 - Trespasser on North Head military land; Smallpox patients in Quarantine in 1901.
 Echidna
Echidna
April 2020
Education room closed but plant identification link provided; Heliotropium amplexicaule - weed; Nursery on "care and maintenance" only due to Covid-19; Eating the wildlife; Book review of "Healings and Burials at Sydney’s North Head" by Lady Jean Duncan Foley; Third Cemetery - Mr Arthur Reid; Independent Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Planting2014 Planting 2020
Planting 2014   Plants in 2020

May 2020
Native Plant Nursery; Planting in 2014 and what the area looks like in 2020; Photos from North Head; Pampas Grass and its negative impacts; Sydney Morning Herald article from 1930 about the Quarantine Station and its carvings.

Superb Fairy Wren
Female Superb Fairy Wren
June 2020
Education Room (plus front door) repainted; Native Plant Nursery volunteers working but with restrictions due to Covid-19; Birds of North Head; Bird of Paradise Flies; Lantana camara; Back in Time - 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic
Black cockatoo
Black cockatoo

July 2020
Native Plant Nursery; Calyptorhynchus funereus (Black Cockatoo); Imperata cylindrica - not a weed, but a taste of history; Back in Time - stories from Newspapers - Neglected Cemetery in1911 and The Plague in 1900
Third Cemetery
Third Cemetery

August 2020
Nursery; Sands under the microscope; Bitou Bush & Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera, subspecies rotundata & monilifera); Back in Time - Parks and Playground Movement report from 1935; Third Cemetery - two nurses, who looked after patients with Influenza, contracted the disease and died.

Obelisk
Obelisk
September 2020
Heavy rain caused flooding in the nursery; Pandorea pandorana; Seeding mosses;  Obelisk with engravings by soldiers who were quarantined in 2018; Acetosa sagittata or Turkey Rhubarb - a weed
After burn
Regrowth after controlled burn
October 2020
Spring in the Nursery; Controlled burn of bushland; Actinotus helianthi flourishing after fire; Reminiscences of growing up on North Head by John Neil Harris
QR code sign
QR Code sign
November 2020
Echidna helps with Asset Protection Zone; Hazard Reduction Burn escapes; Have your say about North Head Sanctuary;  $40.6m for Harbour Trust Heritage Sites; Bushland will recover; Net experiments on North Head; Installation of QR Code signs helping people to get to know our plants.
Domino Cuckoo Bee
Domino Cuckoo Bee
December 2020
Native Plant Nursery closed from Dec 22 through to Jan 5, 2021; Regrowth after September fire; Domino Cuckoo Bee; Yellow-tailed black cockatoo;  Wildlife and the fire; Influenza Pandemic 1919


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

February 2020

Grevillea buxifolia
Grevillea buxifolia
Photo: Ian Evans
March 2020

Wattle bird on Banksia aemula
Wattle bird on Banksia aemula
 Photo: Ian Evans
April 2020
 Weed found on North Head
Heliotropium amplexicaule
Heliotropium amplexicaule Photo: J. Wilson
 May 2020
 Weed found on North Head
Pampas Grass
Cortaderia selloana: Seeds and flowers Photo: G.Lambert
May 2020
 
   
Jelly Fungus 
Auricularia cornea  Photo E. Mills

June 2020
 
Weed found on North Head
 Lantana camara
Lantana Camara
Photo J. Lambert 
July 2020 
  
Imperata cylindrica 
Imperata cylindrica seedhead  Photo:
Peter Macinnis
 August 2020
  Weed found on North Head  
Bitou
Bitou Bush Photo: Sydney Weed Committee
 September 2020

Pandorea pandorana
Pandorea pandorana Photo: Jenny Wilson
September 2020
  Weed found on North Head 
Acetosa sagittata
Acetosa sagittata Photo: Geoff Lambert
October 2020

Actinotus helianthi
Actinotus helianthi Photo:Jenny Wilson
December 2020

Regrowth after fire
Regrowth after fire Photo: Peter Macinnis
 
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