WHAT WE DO

Coastwatchers Association works for:

• The creation of environmentally friendly jobs, for which there is plenty of scope
• Maintaining our clean healthy catchments and coasts
• Recognition that people are part of the environment, and not separate from it
• Planned development with as little environmental destruction as possible
• Ecologically sustainable management of our forests
• Empowering our community to live and work together sustainably
• Planning to avoid the piecemeal detrimental impacts of development which so often occurs
• Ensuring the community's hard won environmental gains are not lost
• Fair international trade, because the present WTO rules are a threat to the environment and a just society.

Coastwatchers has been involved in numerous successful operations:

• Stopping the proposed Mogo Charcoal plant
• Stopping the Gulaga (Mt Dromedary) shooting complex (this development would have threatened public safety, caused lead pollution of oyster growing areas, major noise impacts for neighbours, and desecration of Gulaga (Mt Dromedary) a significant aboriginal sacred site.
• The preservation of the Cullendulla wetlands
• The modification of environmentally poor policies, plans and development proposals
• The dedication of the Eurobodalla National Park
• The work of river catchment and estuary management committees
• The inclusion of sensible constraints on forestry practices
• The raising of environmental awareness in the community.

What we are doing

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Here are just a few of the things that Coastwatchers are currently doing --

• Suggesting ways people can help with the Climate Change issue
• Lobbying for more environmentally sustainable coastal development
• Trying to prevent excessive clearing for subdivisions - to give buyers the opportunity to build with nature instead of destroying it. (Did you know endangered animals such as Yellow Bellied Gliders still share some of our settlements?)
• Working to change forest management practices - so that only the least sensitive coupes are intensively logged, and wood-chipping is phased out
• Endeavouring to have jetskis banned from the Shire, or at have them tightly restricted to areas that do not conflict with other users and that result in minimum noise pollution
• Closely monitoring Council meetings
• Commenting on draft proposals, planning controls and the like that affect our area
  

The Coastwatchers Association Incorporated:

1. Supports the application of democratic and transparent due process and legitimate challenges under the legal system;
2. If appropriate, supports the community's right to non-violent passive resistance, where our right to protest can be expressed while at the same time respecting the human dignity and property rights of all others in the community;
3. In no way condones violence, or the destruction of property, or threats thereof.

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