Bill
Stent should have read the blog post concerned before asking
for his "evidence":
1.
An arborist was hired to lop the limbs off the tree.
2.
The bird was sitting on eggs at the time the tree was
lopped. Presumably it would have not remained sitting on the
nest while the lopping was underway.
3.
I provide a first-hand account from somebody who was
actually there and prepared to go on the record. This was
the person who discovered the nest. His claim was put to the
Queensland Environment Department, which declined to
respond.
Queensland Government officers studying the endangered
Red Goshawk on Cape York lopped the limbs off a nesting
tree while a bird was sitting on eggs to improve
photographic opportunities.
That’s
a fairly serious accusation, Greg, and it comes in three
parts:
- It was the Government officers who were the ones
studying the Goshawk who lopped the tree (and not, for
example, the local electricity company)
- The bird was sitting on eggs when the tree was lopped
(and not while the parents were off hunting)
- The reasons they lopped the tree was to improve
photographic opportunities (and not, to continue the
alternative example, to lessen fire danger)
What
evidence do you have to support these three separate
accusations?
Bill
Stent
