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[email protected] [email protected] The family behind the business www.tweedecho.com.au LOCAL & INDEPENDENT Page 8 Rose, Biosphere status Young urged for Tweed Achiever Murray Simpson the McPherson and Border ranges and possibly even the marine reserve A grand plan to have the Tweed Val- off Byron Bay. ley declared a ‘biosphere reserve’ has It will spill from Tweed shire to By- using her been launched by the Caldera Envi- ron, Lismore, Kyogle and Northern ronment Centre. Rivers shire councils and will link But it has nothing to do with Dis- with Queensland’s scenic rim scheme brains neyland-type glass bubbles, says co- which runs down to the border. ordinator Edward ‘Hop. e’ Hopkins. ‘It all centres on the biodiversity ‘We want to become part of a global hot-spot we have where the McPher- network of biospheres promoted by son and Border ranges meet roughly UNESCO,’ he said. at the head of the Limpinwood Valley,’ ‘There are 546 biospheres world- he said. wide in 109 countries and 15 in Aus- Rarest of the rare tralia. ‘We’re looking at biosphere status ‘We’ve got species there that exist Murray Simpson received a Year 12 Rotary prize for cit- Mr McDonald received recogni- for the Border Ranges and Noosa to nowhere else.’ izenship and the Defence Force Long tion for his services to the cattle in- provide a green belt, or lungs, at either The roots of the biosphere reserve The strange world of teenagers’ brains Tan leadership and teamwork award.