12 a year? I get several a week, but none of them are the ones you've
described, they're mostly from my local Birdlife groups about activities.
Peter Shute
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf
> Of Fred Mack
> Sent: Monday, 7 December 2015 10:10 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Is anyone else sick of BirdLife Australia marketing?
>
> https://support.birdlife.org.au/emailviewonwebpage.aspx?erid=2407986&tri
> d=43b5737e-fb8a-4471-b824-64047318c034
>
> "With numbers down 84%... how long before the Lesser Sand Plover is
> extinct?
> "This Silent Shorebirds Crisis can't continue."
>
> Silent crisis? seriously, it's been at the forefront of ornithology for 10
> years
> hasn't it... are BirdLife Australia just realizing this?.. and is this
> actually true?
> Given these people have recently said in similar marketing 90% of Australia's
> woodlands have been cleared in the past few decades, we need to protect
> private land for Mallee- Emu-wrens (they never occured on private land as
> far as I know) and Magpies are going extinct, you have to wonder?
>
> I've supported this organization in the past to the tune of tens of thousands
> and all I get is constant negative doomsday marketing trying to guilt me into
> things. They must send me a dozen a year. Add to that a massive and
> insultingly invasive, "supporter survey" asking me everything from my
> income to where live!
>
> These people do wonderful actual conservation and research work - I know I
> help with much of it and they are great! but for god's sake who is running
> this
> organization these days?
>
> Is anyone else totally sick of them or is it just me?
>
> Frank.
>
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