It's surprising that fauna could be considered as distinct from the
"environment" when the idea of interdependence of components of an
eco-system is well understood.
I recently watched several episodes of the "life of birds" doco and
the example of brown tree snakes decimating the local bird population
has stuck in my mind.
A US government website:
http://www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/education/bts/impacts/eco_perturb.asp
gives some insight to the some of the effects the loss of birdlife on
the islands has caused. You have to read around the BTS specifics but
it's clear the environmental impact from the loss of birdlife is
substantial.
Tangentially, I was reading the latest "I and the Bird" and came
across link on a link, so to speak, which lead to http://
www.birdersunited.com
The idea of a popular "Bird Lobby" is really quite facinating. The
rating of canditates from all sides of politics on their "bird
friendliness" is something whihc should considered with the pending
Federal Elections. After all it might be nice to know who is
committed to draining wetlands or will support environmental flows to
riverine wetlands in the future.
cheers
Paul
On 05/04/2007, at 1:44 PM, Lorne Johnson wrote:
Why should we care about our birds?
I'd love to hear what people think.
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