Northern Beaches Council Voted in favour 12 to 1 to send the Petition to the Hon Tara Moriarty MLC, Minister for Agriculture and the Hon Penny Sharpe MLC, Minister for the Environment
The Petition was a huge success with over 6000 signatures collected, but the journey continues. The next step is to Write a Letter to the NSW State Government.
On Tuesday 27th June 2023, the Friends of Bongin Bongin Bay presented a petition with over 6000 signatures to the Northern Beaches Council. At the meeting which was attended by well over 100 people, the councillors voted in favour of the motion twelve to one and resolved the following:
The original petition to Northern Beaches Council Staff stated that we would like to:
"Ask that Bongin Bongin Bay, at the northern end of Mona Vale Beach, be declared a 'No-Take' Aquatic Reserve".
If you want to read the full 31 page submission just go to this page
Our petition has succeeded in moving our request on to the state government. So for the moment we no longer need petition signatures but do need a lot of help in writing letters. Click on the following button to take you to the letter writing page:
Here are a couple of resources on Bongin Bongin Bay.
The "Resources" include pages containing information on the the bay and why we would like it to become an Aquatic Reserve.
Remember, from a council perspective, manually collected signatures will carry more weight than ones collected electronically, but it is good to have both.
We have made it easy to write your letter to the NSW State Government.
Please share using the following link:
https://www.bonginbonginbay.com/pages/write-a-letter
Please distribute this far and wide using all of your social media resources.
Should you have not written a letter yourself please click on the button below and you will be taken straight to the page
The Friends of Bongin Bongin Bay acknowledge the Garigal people of the Wannangine Guringai Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the earth and waters where Bongin Bongin Bay is located and all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples throughout Australia.
We honour their continuing culture and connection to land and sea. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect and recognition to all First Nations peoples.
