It is pleasing to see the opening of the Wildbark Centre at Mulligans Flat. It will undoubtedly prove to be a very popular and important addition to the Mulligans Flat Sanctuary experience.
In a sad coincidence the new visitors centre has opened just weeks after the death of Bruce Lindenmayer. Bruce is widely and appropriately acknowledged as the early driving force behind the decision to ensure that the unique environmental value of the Mulligans Flat precinct was formally recognised and protected .
What is perhaps not as well known, if at all, was that the decision to construct the predator proof fence at Mulligans, the removal of all exotic and destructive predators and the gradual reintroduction of a range of endangered birds and animals was made following a chance meeting I had with Bruce at which he made the case for the fence to be built. The meeting occurred, I recall, at the launch of a book written by his son Professor David Lindenmayer.
While there is much about Bruce of which his family can be proud we are all in his debt because of his unrelenting commitment to the protection and preservation of Mulligans Flat.
Jon Stanhope