With all the money pouring into the drought-stricken farmers fund imagine
how many 1000s of hectares of habitat we could buy up and protect!
Isn't it ironic - overstocking the land way above its carrying capacity
might be a gamble that pays off in a wet year, but everyone could see this
drought coming for months so there's no excuse for reducing stocking rates
to save the land.
How about making relief payments to farmers dependent on them signing up for
radical measures to improve their environmental management practices?
Australia promoting itself as a "green" source of lamb and beef? Yeah right,
we don't put cattle into "meat factories" (barns) like in Europe or the US,
true, but instead we rape & pillage the land, and if the weather turns foul,
we pay the "poor" farmers!
(Watch the flak coming in)
Cheers
Peter Waanders
Waikerie, South Australia
Birding SA website: http://www.riverland.net.au/~peterw/
"Nature has more to fear from the apathy of the masses than from the work of
a developer."
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