No good news from up here as you'll know if you saw my email on Gamba Grass.
Also indigenous rangers are resigning for reasons to do with bad management
through the public service. They (the rangers) tell me that now weeds are
overtaking the parks they once looked after.
Denise
On 16/5/13 9:46 AM, "Tony Russel" <> wrote:
> Yes, here's a bit more bad news which you may not have heard about. The
> Saltfield wetlands at Dry Creek north of Adelaide are to close in June and
> be redeveloped for housing. And to make things worse, The Saltfields at
> Price are also closed to birders following some silly behaviour by a birder.
> This followed Cheetham Salt imposing near impossible clothing requirements
> which made it difficult enough to comply anyway.
>
> They want us out, full stop.
>
> Tony
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> On Behalf Of Ian Reid
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2013 7:34 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] all the bad news
>
>
> The last week on birding-aus has got me thoroughly depressed about the state
> of the environment and the value placed on it by politicians and other
> authorities in Australia, especially at state level.
>
> We've had more news about duck hunting in Victoria, news about possible
> logging in national parks in NSW to add to the folly of amateur hunting in
> the nat parks, the possibility of logging on Bruny Island in Tassie, and the
> horrific details of the Qld govt's plans, and burn-off cockups in SA wiping
> out habitat of vulnerable and endangered birds.
>
> Is there any good news from WA or NT coz it's not coming from elsewhere???
>
> I will of course write to MPs, sign petitions, etc, but what is so
> profoundly depressing is that so little of the population at large and
> apparently even fewer politicians actually care.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Ian
>
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> School of Computer Science
> University of Adelaide
> Adelaide, 5005
> ph: +61 (08) 83132135
> www: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au
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