About the Cliefden Caves
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Map of one of the caves
Not all the caves are yet mapped. Flooding the caves will destroy forever all the caves of the area.
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Internationally important fossil site
In the 1950s, Stevens was able to show that the limestone is Ordovician age, the first recording of this age limestone in New South Wales., It is particularly rich in fossil material, further detailed mapping is now in progress, and the area has become known as one of the major fossil sites in the state.
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Spectacular formations
The decorations in the caves at Cliefden are truly spectacular. Caverns of beautiful stalactites, stalagmites, columns, crystals, helictites, shawls and much more.
Flooding these caves is like resuming whaling - there are always more jobs, tourism and economic benefit in preserving, exploring and treasuring nature than destroying it!
Join our campaign to Save Cliefden Caves.
This site has been put together to respond to the outrageous proposal to construct a dam at Needles Gap on the Belubula River, NSW, which will flood the Cliefden Caves forever.
The dam proposal is as senseless and environmentally destructive as the flooding of the Pedder in Tasmania.
What YOU can do
Write to your local state MP
Click HERE for the list of NSW MP's
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Please join this campaign: sign the PETITION http://chn.ge/1iyuyWq
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What the Nature Conservation Council of NSW says . . .
Nationals’
dam proposal takes
water management back
to the future
Conservation
groups are astonished
the NSW Government
has announced
plans for a
new $150 million
dam at a time
when the federal
government
is spending billions
of dollar returning
water to the
Murray-Darling
Basin system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzF35Q2Lyfk
https://au.prime7.yahoo.com/n3/video/-/watch/24295630/debate-over-needles-dam-continues/
Good letter to the editor, Central Western Daily 26-06-2014
The World-famous blue stalactiteThe colour of the blue speleothems varies from very pale blue flowstone to the azure blue of stalactites and columns. They will be flooded by the proposed dam.
Eastern Horseshoe Bat
The Eastern Horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus megaphyllus) has been recorded in Cliefden Main and Transmission Caves.
The valley that will be flooded
