Interesting to see that Noisy Miners are proposed as a threatening process
in Victoria under the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act.
See the 'preliminary recommendation' for a listing by the Scientific
Advisory Committee (Google for noisy miner and 'Flora and Fauna Guarantee').
I am open to changing my mind but this, to me, seems like fiddling while
Rome burns. The underlying reason why Noisy Miners affect threatened and
endangered species is habitat simplification by humans - and the habitat
simplification and, even more, the failure to respond to what is clear from
numerous studies and, further back still, the increasing disconnection
between people and nature are the really threatening processes.
That is evidenced by an item in The Age saying the Victorian State
Government is looking at diluting the F&FG Act because the location of
threatened species is getting in the way of logging!
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/baillieu-must-stay-true-to-the-environment-20110817-1iy5d.html?skin=text-only
Michael Norris
Melbourne
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