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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Habitat Pods
Habitat Pods
January 2022
Native Plant Nursery; North Head Scenic Area update; Habitat Pods for animals after bushfire; Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub now Critically Endangered; Papuan medical students accommodated at the Quarantine Station; North Head Sanctuary Foundation approaching 20 years of action.
Annie Egan
Annie Egan plaque
February 2022
North Head Scenic Area upgrade; Firemen quarantined at North Head in 1918; Remembering Annie Egan and Elizabeth McGregor, who were nurses died during the Influenza pandemic in 1918; In 1918, there was an appeal for pyjamas needed for people in quarantine; Garden escape - Agapanthus - seen at North Head.
Bondi to Manly walk
Bondi to Manly walk
March 2022
General Meeting March 19 - Speaker John Faulkner - Topic Bondi to Manly Walk; Bandicoot Heaven re-opening; Nursery volunteers welcome; Plant Names; Rain impacts on North Head; Frog Pond construction; Third Cemetery - young man, Sydney Burrows, died in 1898.
 diamond python
Diamond python

April 2022
Thank you to John Faulkner for fascinating talk; Bandicoot Heaven; Native Plant Nursery; Storm damage to planted areas; Hanging Swamp track now open; Tricoryne elatior; Diamond python; Third Cemetery - mistake in record of child death in January 1886.
Ants
Ants

May 2022
Education Room; Native Plant Nursery - new frog pond; Formication of ants; Follow the leader caterpillars; Third Cemetery - arrival of "Stirlingshire".

Frog
Frog
June 2022
Thank you to volunteers; World Environment Day - June 5 - bushcare targetting whisky grass; Meeting on June 18 - speaker Tom Keneally; Q-Station Open Day - June 5; Volunteers welcome in Education Room and Native Plant Nursery; Frogs on North Head; Third Cemetery - Sydney dealing with smallpox
Black Cockatoo
Black Cockatoo

July 2022
Thank you to Tom Keneally for interesting talk in June; Repair of collapsed frog pond bank and planting it out; Upgrades to the Wastewater Treatment Plant; Bondi to Manly Walk - signs erected at North Head; Third Cemetery - deaths from plague in 1900.
Echidna
Echidna

August 2022
Annual General Meeting Sept 17 - Anne Jackson will talk about the MediDivert  system for managing hospital waste; Native Plant nursery supplied over 800 plants to NPWS for the renewed viewing areas on North Head; Spring Flower Walks; Echidna survey on North Head; Third Cemetery - death from Flu; After the burn.

Lapwing chick
Lapwing chick
September 2022
Annual General Meeting - Sept 17 at which Ann Jackson will speak about Medidivert which is a system for reducing waste from medical facilities; Spring Wildflower walks - Monday 3 Oct 2pm: Sunday 9 Oct:10am, Wed 12 Oct: 10am; Lapwing chicks have hatched; The curiosities behind what we can see in Nature; North Head Scenic area carparks, pathways and bus stop are now open; New Lookouts are under construction; Third Cemetery - Joseph Stock died of influenza.
Oval planted area
Oval planted area
October 2022
Native Plant Nursery planted area next to oval - many flowering plants; Echidna survey; Australian Wildlife Conservancy news; Thelionema umbellatum; Kennedia rubicunda; Third Cemetery - report from 1919 during Influenza epidemic where restrictions impacted Anzac Day celebrations.
Frog Spawn
Frog Spawn
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
New Holland Honeyeater
New Holland Honeyeater
December 2022
General meeting Dec 3 - Dr Peter Mitchell speaking about the geology of North head; Echidna survey; Native Plant Nursery; New Holland Honeyeater; Surveying wild orchids; Orchid photos; North Head Scenic Lookout; Cryptostylis subulata; Third Cemetery - smallpox 1884


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

March 2022

Ficinia nodosa
Ficinia nodosa  Photo: Geoff Lambert
March 2022

Chordifex dimorphus
Chordifex dimorphus Photo: Geoff Lambert
April 2022

Trycoryne elatior
Trycoryne elatior  Photo: Elizabeth Mills
 June 2022
Weed found on North Head 

Whisky Grass
Whisky Grass Photo: Jenny Wilson
 October 2022

Thelionema umbellatum
Thelionema umbellatum  Photo: Jenny Wilson
October 2022

Kennedia rubicunda
Kennedia rubicunda Photo: Jenny Wilson
November 2022

Flannel FLowers
Actinotus helianthi Photo: Ian Evans
 December 2022

Cryptostylis subulata
Cryptostylis subulata Photo: Jenny Wilson
 
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