The Great Latrobe Park project team recently visited Anglesea to look, listen and learn about a proposal for an Eden style project to be sited in a former coal mine at Anglesea.
Resources giant, Alcoa, is partnering with the people who built Britain’s top eco-attraction The Eden Project, which transformed a disused quarry in Cornwall into a field of giant plastic domes that house tropical rainforests in 2001. The intention was to take an “apparently hopeless” area and transform it into a natural community asset.
Its backers expect it would create 300 full-time jobs.
The Eden Project, UK, has attracted more than 20 million visitors since it was built and is often cited as a perfect example of what a revitalised mine ecosystem could look like in Latrobe Valley, and something we at Great Latrobe Park are advocating strongly for.
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An artist’s impression of the proposed Anglesea Eden project on the site of a former Alcoa coalmine in Victoria. Photograph: Eden Project; Source, The Guardian Australia
The Guardian Australia reported on the story here:
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ABC also covered the story here:
Read more about the Eden Project here:
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Image source: The Eden Project website.