Welcome to STEP

STEP is a community-based environmental organisation with over 400 members from Ku-ring-gai, Hornsby and surrounding suburbs of northern Sydney. Our primary aim is to preserve all natural bushland within the area from alienation and degradation. Learn more about our history, aims and achievements.

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City Populations

There has been much media interest in the report that Sydney's population has reached 5 million. What has also been…
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Biodiversity Legislation Submission – Major Points for Comment Relating to Urban Areas

In May the NSW government released regulations and codes that provide some of the detail on how the biodiversity legislation…
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Assessment of Biodiversity Offsetting – A Fail and Worse to Come

Over the past 200 years NSW has lost almost half of its bushland through land clearing and only 9% of…
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Ku-ring-gai’s BioBanking Policy

Ku-ring-gai Council is anticipating that there will be a strong demand for biodiversity offsets once biodiversity legislation comes into operation…
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Adani Coal Mine – Surely it Can’t Go Ahead

The Australian and Queensland governments are still pushing for the Adani mine to go ahead and are bending over backwards…
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Rodent Eradication on Lord Howe Island – A Case Study of Cost Benefit Analysis

Lord Howe Island is a magnificent island about 600 km off the coast of NSW. Its unique landform as an…
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Threatened Species Children’s Art Competition

STEP is supporting a great initiative by organised by Forestmedia, a small not-for-profit organisation that is aiming to increase community…
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The Decoupling Delusion: Rethinking Growth and Sustainability

Our economy and society ultimately depend on natural resources: land, water, material (such as metals) and energy. But some scientists…
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