Hi Birders,
I am in complete agreement with Mike Todd about the low threat posed by
alleged" poachers" to our rarer species. As a former and retired national
parks manager for 37 years, I see the biggest threat to our birds coming
from land clearing and habitat destruction, not the "poachers and egg
collectors", wrong though those practises are..
Therefore I cannot agree to Jeff Davies proposal about not letting people
know about where the Buff-breasted Button-quail occur. The more the
community known where BBBQ are to be found and the habitat they occupy, the
more support there is to protect that habitat. Otherwise we have club that
only let their mates known where BBBQ occur and that plays into the hands of
developers and private consultants who know what rare things occur on their
land but they don't tell any one so they have no hindrance to proposals to
develop the land.
Evryone knows that Golden-shouldered Parrots occur on Artemis Station,
Musgrave and to see them you have to get permission direct from the owner or
alternatively hire the locally authorise guide to take you to the site.
Surely this would be a suitable way to deal with the BBBQ.
The short term disturbances could at least therefore lead to long term gains
for the species.
Alan Morris
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