NATIVE VEGETATION CLEARANCE HABITAT LOSS AND BIO-DIVERSITY DECLINE
Tasmanian produce is often marketed as "Clean and Green". However, there is a war being waged on wildlife across Tasmania, through government sanctioned persecution, commercial exploitation, habitat loss, introduced plants, animals, environmental stress and diseases, Tasmania's wildlife is not faring well.
Although over 40% of Tasmania is in re-serves, most of the State's rain forest, wet and dry eucalypt forest, wood lands and grasslands are still under-reserved and not protected from clearing. The large wilderness World Heritage Area is largely button grass moorland and alpine areas that have little to offer developers, and not all species live there!
Although 1080 is a terrible problem on mainland Australia for it's
effects on target and non-target species, in Tasmania alone it is used to routinely
slaughter native marsupial browsers. It's used in Queensland for wild dogs and dingoes, but
Tasmania it's entrenched, subsidised and badly administered for wildlife.
David Llewellyn is a Labor representative in the electorate of Lyons . He currently holds the office of Minister for Primary Industries he advocates recreational duck shooting.
Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett said yesterday the photos released by his government this week showed a minke mother and calf being dragged onto a Japanese whaling ship after they were shot with an exploding harpoon and were evidence of ``indiscriminate killing.'' MORE INFORMATION CLICK HERE
Destroying ancient forests and our native wildlife is a madness.
It is a relic of the mindset that puts humanity at the top of the food chain and the planet as a resource to be plundered to extinction.
We need to stop this madness as we are moving quickly to and beyond the point where our earth can sustain us.
This is a blight on politics, the insane shortsightedness of business and profit over something that is of unquantifiable value.
History will judge the short sighted blindness of those who allowed this to happen. Logging ancient forests is a blight on us all.
TASMANIAN WILDLIFE NEEDS YOUR HELP!
This may not be your kind of sport - it’s not the way most Australians think of sport. Wildlife Tasmania has never considered this sport. It’s not the way WA thinks of sport - it was banned there in 1990. Nor is it the way NSW thinks of sport, it was banned there in 1995. Queensland declared it a non-sport when they announced their permanent ban on November 1st 2006. SA and Victoria have closed or shortened recent seasons, this year included. Tassie?- no mate- she’ll be apples, fire away.
Economist, Professor Ross Garnaut, has issued a loud wake-up call to the nation's leaders, and to us all. His interim report, released in Adelaide on Thursday 21 February, acknowledges that climate change requires urgent, dramatic action and without delay.
