http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2010/11/16/3067698.htm
The above article draws attention to the problems about beating ones head against a wall. It shows that as wildlife carers and those trying to point out that we should care more for our environment we can easily become discouraged and finally give up the fight for the animals of Australia and the world environment for which we are possibly the only champions.The politicians are the champions of money, thinking that if people have money to spend they will be happy, or if not happy, at least too busy to see what is happening all round them. That seems to have been proven by the decades where the people of western countries at least, went about their business of shopping rather than questioning. Then came peak oil and such things and still there was no outcry or change of attitude that can be measured. Climate change, and the planet continues to be ravaged, and not many curbing the excesses and we keep rolling the careless juggernaut powered by greed, onward over the very things that might just save some of our animal, insect and plant species.
The people of each country kill creatures that it considers pests and looks to other countries to stop killing the animals they consider pests. The lines are blurred, because there are few who really understand the role of pest and native animal, and have no idea which is which. While we who know the difference in many cases just filter this through the simple and best formula, being that all animal species are precious and that if they are not native to a country, might be all that survive because they are extinct in the habitat from whence they came. A justification for zoos? Hardly; but it does mean that zoos might become the repositories of an animal species that would otherwise no longer exist, even if it is a pale thing to the one that roamed wide landscapes or swung through and fed in trees that may also no longer exist.
Is there any wonder that wildlife carers and people concerned about the environment become despondent and eventually fall through the cracks created by developers and politicians?
