Climate change does not bode well for picky-eaters

By Birding-Aus, on January 27th, 2015

Rainforests seed rain. Forests assist climate balance and carbon sequestering. Natural destruction through lightning started bush fires do not strongly effect thick canopied rainforest. Mankind is responsible for the huge destruction of these forests and has tipped the balance. Compound it further with the extra loads we put upon our enviroment with carbon emissions, erosion and soil degradation, I feel that to doubt that we need to address these issues and to assist in slowing the distinction of species is extremely egocentric. As we look at past generations and shake our heads with disbelief at their understanding of science and belief systems, our youth will find us irresponsible and willfully destructive to have charged-on in our greed for resources, development, progress, financial gain and self-indulgence. We have knowledge and we have alternatives and actively choose that it is inconvenient to make adjustments. We flush our toilets with drinking water, we support multinationals that tear down rainforests to grow palms for oil, we invest in shares or allow our Superannuation Funds to support unsustainable corporations, we expect others to carry the burden before we relinquish our comforts and we support short-term thinking governments. I regret my past acts of self importance and try to contribute wherever and whenever I can, both in Australia and abroad. I hope more like-minded folk make the time to do the what they can. Burney

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geoffsha

January 27, 2015 at 2:03 pm

Well said I am keeping your email as an incentive. Like Penny I wish I had an answer. Even those seachangers coming to Tassie for a beach change want to change the habitat they build in by removing all trees and laying pebbles. Where do we start. Geoff Shannon —–Original Message—– Burnice Starkey Sent: Tuesday, 27 January 2015 11:11 AM Rainforests seed rain. Forests assist climate balance and carbon sequestering. Natural destruction through lightning started bush fires do not strongly effect thick canopied rainforest. Mankind is responsible for the huge destruction of these forests and has tipped the balance. Compound it further with the extra loads we put upon our enviroment with carbon emissions, erosion and soil degradation, I feel that to doubt that we need to address these issues and to assist in slowing the distinction of species is extremely egocentric. As we look at past generations and shake our heads with disbelief at their understanding of science and belief systems, our youth will find us irresponsible and willfully destructive to have charged-on in our greed for resources, development, progress, financial gain and self-indulgence. We have knowledge and we have alternatives and actively choose that it is inconvenient to make adjustments. We flush our toilets with drinking water, we support multinationals that tear down rainforests to grow palms for oil, we invest in shares or allow our Superannuation Funds to support unsustainable corporations, we expect others to carry the burden before we relinquish our comforts and we support short-term thinking governments. I regret my past acts of self importance and try to contribute wherever and whenever I can, both in Australia and abroad. I hope more like-minded folk make the time to do the what they can. Burney

goodfellow

January 27, 2015 at 12:59 pm

By the way as Top End floodplains disappear under Olive Hymenachne and Para Grass it may be that landowners will use the land to graze cattle. That’s already happening around Oenpelli. Denise Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow PO Box 71 Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841 PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW. Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern Territory 043 8650 835 On 27 Jan 2015, at 12:10 pm, Alan Gillanders < alan@alanswildlifetours.com.au > wrote:

January 27, 2015 at 12:57 pm

They’re soiling their nest as well as everyone else’s. Little nutrition is found in most of our soils except under shrubs and trees. While lecturing on conservation in the US in 2009 I suggested that if members of the audience boycott Australian beef because graziers promoted weeds such as Gamba and Para Grass and Olive Hymenachne. Let’s call for the labelling of beef and other meats that informs purchasers whether it is “environmentally-sensitive” or not. Otherwise boycott beef and buy chicken, pork and small fish. Denise Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow PO Box 71 Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841 PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW. Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia Founding Member: Australian Federation of Graduate Women Northern Territory 043 8650 835 On 27 Jan 2015, at 12:10 pm, Alan Gillanders < alan@alanswildlifetours.com.au > wrote:

Alan Gillanders

January 27, 2015 at 12:40 pm

Dear Burney, Yesterday in the Daintree Valley we heard of a local grazier who could not believe how hot it was, “I’ve lived here all my life and its never been this hot. Never in my whole life.” This fellow along with some of his colleagues had taken advantage of the dry conditions late last year and our slack government to set fires which burnt well into the rainforest. In one instance going through the understorey as far as the ridge line. Still to see how much of this forest dies. Here on the Tablelands we have landholders who use the practice every year to reduce the amount of forest on their properties. This is despite that it provides little extra grazing and devalues their properties. Forested properties are much more highly valued than grazing blocks. Can we get our governments to recognise that deforestation costs? No, but they’ll give rate rebates (in the form of differential rating) to the farmers on the lessened valuation and not to conservationists. Land taxes are supposed to be based on the unimproved value of the property. There is a gross lack of integrety in the system as well as stupidity. Regards, Alan Alan’s Wildlife Tours 2 Mather Road Yungaburra 4884 Phone 07 4095 3784 Mobile 0408 953 786 http://www.alanswildlifetours.com.au/

penny

January 27, 2015 at 12:08 pm

Thank you Burnice for a considered and sane response. How do we stop the destruction.

carlsclifford

January 27, 2015 at 11:05 am

Well said, Burney. I heartily agree. Carl Clifford

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