Horse racing industry insiders said to be pushing for Sydney track to be relocated to former brickpit in Olympic Park – a sanctuary to an unlikely urban survivor
An aerial view of the Brickpit ring walk at Sydney Olympic Park, which racing insiders are apparently pushing to be transformed after the sale of Rosehill racecourse.An aerial view of the Brickpit ring walk at Sydney Olympic Park, which racing insiders are apparently pushing to be transformed after the sale of Rosehill racecourse.to a historic brickpit at Olympic Park, which is home to a colony of endangered green and golden bell frogs.
Their presence scuppered plans for the construction of a tennis complex for the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the area was then“This is probably the only proposal for the use of this land that can exist symbiotically with the endangered frogs,” a racing insider told the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday. “They are a colonising species and move around a lot in search of new freshwater sites that they can colonise first. This means that they often end up in old industrial sites, quarries, open wasteland and flooded areas.
“Our main objective through our most recent project was to connect breeding ponds for the frogs, so that they can safely move between them without getting predated on,” Jones said.
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