Community Environment Network Campaigns
Community Environment Network Campaigns
The Community Environment Network’s mission is to work to support Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) and oppose threats to ESD. In addition to our many ongoing programs and projects, we often support other groups to campaign, in support of ESD, on specific issues and we run our own campaigns.
Part of our campaign work involves helping new groups to get established or to grow existing groups so that they have capacity to take the lead on specific environmental issues.
Friends of COSS
The Central Coast’s unique Coastal Open Space System or COSS lands are beautiful. They are a system of reserves owned by Central Coast Council that are managed for conservation and passive recreation and CEN continually campaigns for the expansion and protection of COSS.
Friends of Porters Creek Wetland
Porters Creek Wetland is the Central Coast’s largest freshwater wetland. In addition to keeping the water quality of our lakes, rivers and beaches pristine, the wetland provides habitat for threatened flora and fauna which is why CEN is campaigning for its permanent protection.
CC Community Better Planning Group
Our better planning group meets weekly to discuss developments and rezonings and their impacts on nature and the liveability of the region. It consists of community members with expertise or a honed interest in town planning.
Climate Future
The CEN member group Climate Future actively campaigns to increase community awareness of the threats posed by global warming and to seek greater commitment from all levels of government to stop or slow down its impacts.
Future Sooner
Mining and burning coal has had, and continues to have, a massive impact on the environment and communities of the Central Coast and Lake Macquarie. Future Sooner actively campaigns to raise awareness of the health impacts of mining and burning coal.
Friends of Kurrawyba
Friends of Kurrawyba is a CEN member group that is working for the permanent removal of shark meshing from Central Coast’s beaches and for the establishment of a marine protection zone.
Barrington to Hawkesbury
CEN is proud to be a foundation member of the Barrington to Hawkesbury Climate Corridors Alliance which will continue to campaign to stop native forest logging on public and private land for the creation of refugia for threatened and endangered plants and animals impacted by global warming.
Stop the Selloff
Since 2022 the Central Coast Council has embarked on a strategy of selling off public land, reclassifying community land to operational land so it can be sold and recategorising conservation land. CEN will continue to campaign to reverse this trend.
