Dean
The first step in any of these cases is to approach the problem with the
head, not the heart.
Next, amass all your facts and approach the appropriate people. If you are
not a local, try to gain support from the locals before you go any further.
The people approached need to feel non-threatened. You must be able to
present some information in the first minute or so that makes them want to
hear more.
I am not going to continue with a list. Read some of the postings in the
Birding-aus archives and you will find great ideas there.
I found that having someone who has already proved successful in such
matters available for you to contact is the greatest asset you can have.
In my case it was Jill Denning and without her being available almost 24
hours a day, I would have given up long before the Painted Snipe and their
environment on the Gold Coast was secure.
I must repeat the first point - use the head not the heart. It is amazing
what can be achieved with careful thought and trying to keep most of the
emotion out of the argument.
Others will probably post their ideas and some of them may conflict with
mine but that doesn't prove who is right and who is wrong. If you do your
homework, there can be many ways to approach the same problem.
Terry Pacey
Birding-Aus is on the Web at
www.shc.melb.catholic.edu.au/home/birding/index.html
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message
"unsubscribe birding-aus" (no quotes, no Subject line)
to
|
