I agree whole heartedly with Wendy. Not to mention Victorian Government plans for a northern link between the Greensborough Ring Road and the Eastern Freeway – which will eliminate the remnant Grassy Woodland at Watsonia Barracks and then heading for a Yarra Crossing through Banyule Flats and Bolin Bolin billabong…There has been some talk of tunnelling, but what sane engineer would choose to tunnel through a flood zone when he can build bridge or viaduct?
I am really surprised that there has not been more concern expressed about the prospective destruction of the Yarra as a major wildlife corridor.
For more information, check the ‘Friends of Banyule’ website.
Anthea Fleming Ivanhoe
Wendy wrote: > Bob Cooke wrote “> A bit off topic for this forum???” > > No. > The recently approved massive UGB expansion of Melbourne to supply (money > for developers &) housing for our rapidly growing population into previously > designated ‘Green Wedge’ areas is destroying massive areas of grassland and > other habitat and migratory routes of many birds and other species and > habitats upon which they depend. > Coastal housing developments around here impact on coastal species like > OBParrot. > All over Australia, and the world, growing human population is threatening > life on this finite planet. Increasingly energy and material wasteful > lifestyles of humans, especially those of us in countries like Australia and > USA is bringing on climatic changes, environmental disasters (e.g. Timor > Sea, Gulf of Mexico and MANY African oil spills), plastic ocean pollution > and so many other things that are impacting on our environment including > BIRDS. > Some, I hope many, of us are interested in these topics. Personally, I am > disinterested in some other topics but do not wish to stop their discussion. > I hope B-Aus continues to be a broad forum. > > Wendy > > =============================== > > 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 > =============================== > > ===============================
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