Firewood collection in Victoria

Hello all, It can be said that it is interesting times for the environment in any State of Australia at the moment. The following link provides information relating to the (Victorian) Forests Amendment Bill 2012 http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/forests/firewood/forests-amendment-bill-2012 . This Bill seeks to make changes which will formally make way to abolish the need for a domestic … Read more

Red Goshawk harrassment

I was going to respond to Richard Baxter exactly as Carl Clifford has done. Although I suspect Richard was teasing. Actually all good points and fair to raise the issues yet again. But as others have commented, it is not exactly clear what happened in this case that Denise reported and who and how the … Read more

National Parks around Sydney to be closed to hunters

Dear B-A, I have been having a look at the Game and Feral Animal Control Bill 2012 http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/0/c8afc0c4709e478bca25788e0005e862/$FILE/b2011-163-d18-House.pdf (I am laid up in bed with a broken ankle and bored) The Bill lists those NSW National Parks and Nature Reserves etc. from which hunters will be excluded. Funnily enough all off the NPs & NRs … Read more

Tropical fish off Tasmania – What effect on pelagic bird species?

Dear B-A, It will be interesting to see what changes in the pelagic species seen off our east coast, if this trend continues. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-17/climate-change-sees-tropical-fish-head-south/4203830?WT.svl=news0 A worrying trend. Cheers, Car Clifford =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================