Trevor,
Did the Feds come, have a look and decide to do nothing about it? Seems to
be their standard practice around here. So we loose the valuable habitat on
private land piece by piece.
Our Mabi rainforest has mostly been cleared for agriculture. There a a few
remnants. While it is not possible for landholders to clear fell this land
they can undertake a forest practice. Our minister talks about maintaining a
functioning ecosystem but that is crap as it implies that the ecosystem if
functioning as the type of forest it was. Invasives and cyclones have
degraded the forest and fragmentation limits recruitment and spontaneous
rehabilitation.
Yours in despair,
Alan
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From: "Trevor Quested" <>
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 6:19 AM
To: <>
Subject: Short-lived conservation victory
It is with much regret I have to announce the intention of the
foreign-owned Bundaberg Sugar to bulldozing the rainforest for housing in
the Moore Park Beach area near Bundaberg, Queensland. Several people on
birding-aus predicted this would happen. I have scanned an article in
yesterday's press that has a least a nice shot of Jack Moorhead. You can
read it on our website here
http://www.bundabergbirdobservers.org/BundabergBirdObservers.org/Moore_Park_rainforest_conservation.html
Trevor Quested
Bundaberg, Qld
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