Seems like a vicious circle to me.
In order to clean up the cities, waterways etc, and get people to plant
indigenous species of plants, we really need to stimulate the interest the
general populace in what we are trying to re-introduce!
Cheers
Chris
Chris Hankel
Reynella SA
08 8322 9109
0407711418
From: "Tim Dolby" <>
To: <>
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Publicity
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 16:02:06 +1100
Hi.
A note of interest in this subject - I think a lot of people seemed to have
missed the most fundamental context in terms of bird publicity.
A central aspect of bird watching is the aesthetic. Getting children et al
interested in the kind of birds found in our cities is problematic from the
beginning, for example who would get exited over sparrows, starlings and
mynahs - they're just not that appealing, and the storyline is not a good
read.
To begin at the beginning the answer is simple - we must try and
re-introduce indigenous birds to our city landscape (occupation of 90% of
the population). It's far more exciting and aesthetically pleasing to see
indigenous species such as honeyeater, finch, parrot and cockatoo, falcon
and hawk, egret and heron, duck and plover, owl and frogmouth and so on.
The first step therefore is sound ecology - clean up the cities waterways
and plant indigenous species of plants in our parks and gardens.
Fortunately the environmental side of our city environ has been improving
slightly - however the most active way (read action) to promote/market
birds is through the re-establishment of native flora and fauna.
Tim
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