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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Avenue of Honour
Avenue of Honour
Photo: Jan Ritchie
January 2024
A Heritage Road at North Head?  During one of our Foundation's spring wildflower walks for community members led by Geoff and Judy Lambert, the group found themselves on the wide path built along the coastal side of the headland’s dune system. marked on the map as the Avenue of Honour. The group was surprised to hear one of the participants exclaim with reverence that they were walking on a ‘Telford road’! What, you may ask, is a Telford road? And also, what actually is an Avenue of Honour?
Command Post
Command Post
February 2024
North Head echidna survey; North Head Bush regeneration; Observation and Command Posts; In the year 1900, Bubonic Plague took several people who were subsequently buried on North Head.
Volunteer weeders
Volunteer weeders
March 2024
Meeting March 2 with speaker, Mark Tozer, an ecologist;  Volunteers clearing the Frog Hollow; Information about echidnas; Sericornis frontalis - White-browed Scrubwren;  Committees formed in 1900 to help stamp out the plague. 
 Working on cuttings|
Working on cuttings

April 2024
Educaton room; Native Plant volunteers - call in any Tuesday or Friday morning to visit between 8 and 12; Pampas Grass - pest weed;  Garigal Landcare volunteers have been doing magnificent work removing Pampas Grass. Banksia aemula is a valued plant and Nursery volunteers have been propagating them.
Diamond python
Diamond python

May 2024
Plantings over 15 years are providing habitat for echidnas and diamond pythons; Cassia (or Senna pendula) is a weed shrub on North Head; Quarantine Station open day is on May 19; More buses on the North Head route; Ochrogaster lunifers are grey and hairy caterpillars that travel in a long line nose to tail; Quarantine events in 1900 - new plague cases

FT Morgan
FT Morgan's headstone
June 2024
General Meeting June 15 Speaker: Alana Guest, Anderson Environment &
Planning’s ecologist; 3yr agreement for space at North Head; Fungi - North Head and Beyond; Weeding on North Head; Back in time - testing guns on North Head; Death of Pte F.T. Morgan from influenza in 1918.
Nursery volunteers
Nursery volunteers

Jenny working in Nursery
Jenny working in Nursery
The ova
The oval where vegetation has been organised to assist native fauna.
July 2024
Jenny Wilson passed away on May 30, 2024 and she will be greatly missed. 
This newsletter is a special edition to honour the many contributions Jenny Wilson has made to the work of North Head Sanctuary Foundation over many years. Here are some of the contribtutions she made ..

1. Writing and distributing monthly newsletters since 2008 portraying the work of North Head Sanctuary Foundation, events of interest happening on North Head, flora and fauna photographs, and reporting on many types of research related to North Head - much of which was her own research.
2. Being treasurer for North Head Sanctuary Foundation since 2008.
3. Organising funding for projects.
4. Propagating plants.
5. Revegetating degraded areas.
6. Providing morning tea for volunteers.
7 Obtaining funding and then organising hi vis uniforms for volunteers.
8. Maintaining the membership list.
9. Photographing flora and fauna on North Head.

 


 
 


 
   


Featured Flora and Fauna from the newsletters:

 2024 March 2024

 Echidna
Echidna
March 2024

 White-browed Scrubwren
White-browed Scrubwren
Photo Ian Evans
April 2024
 

Banksia aemula
Banksia aemula
 April 2024


 Banksia aemula seedlings
Banksia aemula seedlings
May 2024
 
Weed on North Head
Cassia
Cassia or Senna pendula
Photo: Ian Evans

May 2024
Weed on North Head

Cassia seed pods
Cassia (or Senna pendula) seed pods
Photo: Ian Evans
June 2024
bracket fungus
A bracket fungus
June 2024
small fungi
Small fungi
July 2024
Tribute to Jenny Wilson
Tribute to Jenny Wilson Photo collage: Ian Evans
July 2024
 Restored area
 Restored area opposite Bandicoot Heaven
- one of many projects undertaken by Jenny.
 
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