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Hi,
Just wanted to make comment on two off-topic
threads. The dolphin in Lake Macquarie would be a Bottlenose Dolphin not a
Common Dolphin. Common Dolphins are not usually found in estuaries or
adjacent to the coast. You pick them up as you travel away from the
coast.
The Wollomi Pine is extremely rare and important
but to send it all over the world or even throughout Australia has its
ecological dangers. In other countries (and states and regions in
Australia) it is an exotic (introduced) species with all of the problems that
introduced species bring to natural ecosystems. Breeding up a population
as a safeguard to its extinction in the wild is a great idea but it should
remain relatively close to where it occurs naturally or in the Botanic
Gardens. I don't agree with flogging it off to gardeners so that they can
add another exotic species to their gardens athough I do understand the
financial benefits of doing so.
Regards
Greg
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