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Background
 The Safe Paths to School: Central Coast Walking School Bus (WSB) was started in 2004 with funding by the Central Coast Innovative Transport Solutions Fund through the Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources.
The Walking School Bus Project was implemented as a pilot in four schools Walking School Bus (WSB) programs have been implemented in a number of Victorian and Western Australian schools and have been a huge success. In NSW Kogarah Council has also successfully implemented a WSB.
The WSB is a group of volunteers, usually parents of children who act as the “bus drivers” and walk a designated route to school, stopping at pre determined stops to pick up children along the way, and vice versa for the way home.
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Aiming to assess, identify and protect Swamp Mahogany forests in New South Wales
Read about the recent listing of Swamp sclerophyll forest
on coastal floodplains of the NSW North Coast, Sydney Basin and South
East Corner bioregions - endangered ecological listing - to which this
project contributed.
 The Swamp Mahogany Project (SMP) was commenced in 1996 by volunteers following observations that much of these forests and other coastal lowland types were being lost to development.
The project aims to promote the conservation of these forests by determining their range, composition, regional variations and conservation status (adequacy of reservation, threatening processes, ecological condition, threatened species, populations and communities). Data is being gathered from councils, agencies, ecological consultants and by community members working through the Nature Conservation Council's extensive community network.
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