Birdlife Oz calls for submissions today! Urgent legal crisis wildlife law!
This is urgent. A rushed Senate inquiry will ignore the recommendations of an independent review and devolve our national nature laws to the states instead.
Birdlife Australia
Great upcoming talk from Birdlife Australia at PPCC Inc. AGM Chelsea Vic - All welcome
You are cordially invited to attend the forthcoming AGM of PPCC Inc. Our guest speaker Tania Ireton from Birdlife Australia is sure to be of great interest to all, so please feel free to invite other colleagues and to circulate this invitation widely. Ms.
Collapse of Migratory Shore Bird numbers
The epic migration of shorebirds from Australia to their Arctic breeding grounds is said to be in imminent danger of collapse.
Birds are disappearing by the tens of thousands on their globe-spanning flights, mainly because of the loss of all-important "refuelling" habitat, scientists warn.
Around 36 Australian bird species use the East Asian-Australasian Flyway for the mass migration which sends them north to food-rich Arctic summer nesting habitat, then south to capitalise on the austral summer.
This article is reprinted from the Australian Wildlife Protection Council website
Topic:
- population growth
- Birdlife Australia
- Environment Minister Greg Hunt
- migratory birds
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Little Curlew
- Yellow Sea
- Eastern Curlew
- extintions
- Professor Marcel Klaassen
- Deakin University
- Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
- Ramsar Convention on Welands
- the Agreement
- Wildlife Conservation Plan for Migratory Shorebirds
South Eastern Red-tailed cockatoo under threat from burning for fuel reduction
The South Eastern Red-tailed cockatoo is under increased threat from Victorian government fire "management" plans. A large part of its critical habitat will be burnt. (Editor: This article was originally submitted as a comment. The subject is so important we promoted it to an article and we recommend the Birdlife Australia site it gives a link to for the bird. The site is brilliantly written and illustrated, engrossing and informative on birds and 'fire-management' problems, although it is more diplomatic than this article, which pulls no punches. Readers of candobetter.net will know that there are a lot of people who aren't too impressed with state government fuel management programs. See similar pages on bushfires and on black cockatoos. These birds are wonders of nature, personalities in their own right, and incomparably beautiful. How could anyone allow them to perish?)
Time to put threatened species on big party agenda this election
In this save the birds campaign, Paul Sullivan, the Chief Executive Officer of Birdlife Australia, writes of how frustrated he is that the major parties are just ongoing standing by while birds and other creatures go extinct. He argues (as if it should be necessary) that it would cost very little money to save each threatened species. He does not mention how overpopulation, overdevelopment and agriculture are eating up habitat, but you know...
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