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Sep 12 2022
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Destination Wollongong

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Council says 440,000 new trees in the ground as native plant experts call for even more to be done

Despite Wollongong Council planting hundreds of thousands of new trees in recent years, two leading advocates for a native tree planting blitz in our suburbs have called for more to be done to prepare the city for future global warming. While...

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Lightbulb moment: How the Illawarra Urban REZ is leading a quiet revolution

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