Helensburgh glowworm tunnel | March 17, 2024 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

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00:00 I'm president of the Helensburg Landcare Group and we're the ground land managers for this site.

00:06 Our main issue is the visitors. Visitors come here and they don't pay respect to the local neighbours.

00:14 They're very noisy, some of them. They even ride motorbikes into the tunnel, which is disrespectful to the neighbours

00:20 as well as to the glowworms who don't like noise.

00:23 They vandalise the tunnel walls with graffiti. They vandalise this sign over here to the point where the original is now

00:32 incapable of being put into the outdoors. That's a replica.

00:37 They leave their rubbish. They don't use the rubbish bins provided out front.

00:44 They just leave their rubbish around or nearby at the car park area.

00:51 Their activities are basically going to lead to a diminution of the glowworm population

01:01 and if it continues at the levels that it's going at the moment, because it's a very highly visited area,

01:07 we may even see the local extinction of the species in this tunnel.

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