Re: blackface

"The responsibility should lie squarely on the shoulders of all of you.  If we all devote even a couple of hours a year to doing a talk to the public or something similar, then we hopefully will leave a legacy of beautiful birds for our children to look at long after we have gone."

Wonderful sentiments.  The problem is that those of us that regularly do get out and talk to the public start seeing the same faces over and over.  The rest of public are at home watching Big Brother and really couldn't give a xxxx.

Again, sad but true.

I'm trying hard to think of something positive to say but you only have to read the papers, watch the evening news or even spend a bit of time looking at how people live nowadays to see that for the vast majority of people nature is well down the priority list.  Now, people may say "the environment" is important to them but I'm convinced that most would have no idea what they mean by that.

It could be that I have a different slant on this than many, having been raised a country boy and, except for two very very long years I spent in Melbourne, have always lived in the country.  I'm surrounded by people that do have a real "connection to nature".  It's clear that everyone on this list also has the same connection and have a network of like-minded people.  Step out of that circle for a while and look at the people in the next suburb to you and what do you see.  How many of those people in the endless stretch of roof tiles really care about whether the last family group of Fairy-wrens in the suburb have just been decimated by someone's pet cat?

I'm really on a downer today, aren't I?

David Geering
Regent Honeyeater Recovery Coordinator
Department of Environment & Conservation
P.O. Box 2111
Dubbo  NSW  2830
Ph: 02 6883 5335 or Freecall 1800 621 056
Fax: 02 6884 9382



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