David Geering has asked me to post the following response to this
thread as he is not currently on Birding-Aus:
I see no issues with posting the coordinates of species such as this.
The NSW Dept of Environment, Climate Change & Water has a policy that
coordinates for certain sensitive species are not to be released.
These include species of high biological significance, for which no
records will be provided at all; species considered to be at serious
risk from threats such as disturbance or exploitation; species
considered to be at medium to high risk of threats such as
disturbance or exploitation.
Surely, people knowing the whereabouts of a snipe or Brolga are
hardly going to open the floodgates on illegal collecting. Does
anyone know of any such illegal activities? Perhaps they should
raise these concerns with their state wildlife agency.
What I think is a more serious issue is birdwatchers NOT reporting
threatened species to their relevant state wildlife agencies. I
repeatedly do searches of the DECCW Wildlife Atlas for areas where
major developments are proposed to find that there are few records of
threatened species that can be used to guide the department's
response to development. By reporting these threatened species
birdwatchers would actively be doing something positive for bird
conservation.
David Geering
Threatened Species Officer
Biodiversity Conservation Unit, North-west Branch
Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water
P.O. Box 2111
Dubbo NSW 2830
At 4:38 PM +1100 2/11/09, Keith Brandwood wrote:
Why are we still giving out coordinates for endangered species such
as the Painted Snipe or any other endangered species on this forum.
Please lets stop this practice from today.All that is required is to
ask them to contact you if they want to see the species, then after
vetting them you can decide on whether you want to tell them.
Collecting rare wildlife can assure you is still alive and kicking.
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