Yes please - if we all start at our local level, involvement in landcare,
bush regeneration groups etc who knows what might happen!!
I think is is also important to stress that native plantings should ideally
be of locally occuring species
Kathy Watkins
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> From: Nigel Sterpin <>
> To:
> Cc: birding-aus <>
> Subject: Re: birding-aus Species cleansing
> Date: Friday, 28 May 1999 19:08
>
> I totally agree with your comments. What we need to do is increase the
> planting natives in all areas even to the point of digging up foreign
plants
> for the purpose of this. At the end of the day the question is aesthetics
or
> environment?
> I encourage all to approach their local councils to adopt a native
> plantation policy and to ensure that existing and reclaimed land for
public
> use has natives of all shapes and sizes planted.
> I am in the process at the moment of trying to get sponsors to buy the
> abandoned brickworks site in Middleborough Road Burwood and convert it
into
> native bushland. Long shot I know, but I'll never have known otherwise!!!
> Uroo, Nigel Sterpin
> email:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <>
> To: Pat O'Malley <>
> Cc: <>
> Date: Thursday, 27 May 1999 14:44
> Subject: Re: birding-aus Species cleansing
>
>
> >Hi Pat
> >
> >Couple of points: here in Melbourne there's a major road into the city
> >(St Kilda St), littered with offices and high rise apartment blocks. A
> >small public garden has proper bushes and hedges and White-browed
> >Scrubwrens breed there. All too often our public open spaces - and
> >increasingly house blocks - are stripped of understorey in which species
> >like this can hide (eg. from sparrows which will "borrow" nesting
> >material from other species).
> >
> >The Rainbow Lorikeets (as mentioned several times on Birding-Aus) are
> >rapidly re-colonising Melbourne (having left about 100 years ago) partly
> >because of the planting of eucalypts in streets and partly because they
> >are bigger than Mynahs.
> >
> >Without appropriate planting only larger native birds will survive here.
> >
> >Michael Norris
> >Hampton Vic.
> >
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