Please contact me What we do about my interest in: WCPS members and community volunteers are involved in a wide range Bushcare of activities, some very practical and hands on. These include: Wolli Creek Bird surveys - bushland restoration Flying-fox counts - interpretive bush walks and kayak trips Preservation - bird surveys Children’s and schools activities - Grey-headed Flying-fox counts - school and community environmental Society Bush walks education - festivals, talks and public events Festivals and public events - publications including WCPS newsletter Wolli Creek Update. Administrative tasks

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Contact [email protected] www.wollicreek.org.au Facebook.com/protectwollicreekvalley Join the many volunteers Twitter.com/wollipossum We welcome new members and 0431 914553 volunteers. Just let us know how who help maintain and you’d like to be involved. Wolli Creek Preservation Society Inc. improve the beautiful PO Box 270 Earlwood, NSW 2206 Wolli Valley.

See reverse side for membership Wolli Creek Preservation Society Inc. form and payment details. Brochure version May 2013. PO Box 270 Earlwood 2206 About the In 1998, after years of community opposition Membership form to the motorway, the government decided Wolli Creek Valley to lift the road reservation, construct the Surname: Wolli Creek is a major tributary of the Cooks motorway in a tunnel and promised that the River. Rising in Narwee, it flows east to join Wolli Creek Valley would become a Regional Park, under National Parks and Wildlife the Cooks River at Tempe. Between Bexley Given name: North and Undercliffe, the creek flows for Service management. four kilometres through a beautiful sandstone valley and contains the largest remnant Wolli Creek bushland area in inner south-west Sydney. Preservation Society Phone: The valley is a valuable biodiversity corridor. The Wolli Creek Preservation Society is a It contains an outstanding array of natural not-for-profit, voluntary organisation formed Email: environments; mangroves, heathland, in 1984 to prevent the construction of a eucalypt forests, wetlands, striking cliff lines motorway through the valley and to preserve and even rainforest species uncommon in the valley as a bushland reserve. Sydney. Around 80 species of birds have (To receive newsletter and event information) been noted each year in the valley and other WCPS aims to ensure the preservation and New member Renewal fauna to be found include many reptiles and a restoration of the natural and cultural heritage camp of Grey-headed Flying-foxes. of the Wolli Creek Valley, its tributaries and Family – $12.00/year associated corridors and their ecological communities. Through activities such as bush Individual – $8.00/year History of regeneration, walks and schools’ programs, Concession – $5.00/year WCPS members play an important role in Wolli Creek Valley improving the natural environment of the valley Group – $25.00/year and adjacent catchment areas and raising For thousands of years the Wolli Creek Valley 1 year 2 years 3 years was home to the traditional owners, the awareness of the valley within the Bidjigal clan of the Eora people. local community. $ With European occupation came activities WCPS works closely with the community, Donation: such as timber-getting, small farms and market local councils, government agencies and other environmental groups to achieve its goals. gardens. Rare remnants of these pioneer General WCPS activities $ activities can still be found in the valley. Restore Wolli Fund* $ Difficulty of access and flooding meant Access to the Valley that the valley avoided major residential or The Wolli Valley’s bushland begins eight Total $ commercial development until the arrival of kilometres by rail from Central. It is very close to Canterbury, Marrickville, Rockdale and the tram along Homer Street and later the Cheque payable to: Wolli Creek Preservation railway along the valley in 1932. After 1949, Hurstville council areas and easily accessible Society, posted to PO Box 270 Earlwood, 2206 the valley’s bushland was largely within a by public transport. OR road reservation (M5 east corridor) which Direct deposit: WCPS Inc, BSB 032 067 prevented further development. (Westpac), A/C No. 288295. Please include your surname as payee identification and send an email with payment date/details to [email protected]

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