Marsden Park North – Riverstone Wetlands

Community members seem to be running into dead ends with bureaucrats and politicians in efforts to protect a unique and very important wetland habitat for shore birds which travel from Russia, China, Japan and around Australia to forage in North-West Sydney. It’s as if the bureaucrats and politicians are not interested in matters of high ecological significance. Surely environmental sensitivity is part of the role which they occupy. It is a sorrowful indictment on our society today that many actively destroy unique aspects of our natural heritage or they turn a blind eye to those who do.

Retaining these wetlands and accommodating the annual migration of birds to the site will be a real boon to Riverstone/Marsden Park North in terms of tourist interest especially those from around Australia and the world who are interested in bird spotting.

Provided below are extracts of a brochure produced by community members which identify the values of the site and makes suggestions of what you can do:

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