also, allegedly, known as the Eaglehawk, although that’s not a term I ever heard as a youngster. Official Status: Threatened (and Endangered in Tasmania)
environment
“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
Endangered Sunday: Aussie natives need to be pets to survive?
ABC Online: Pet market tipped to save endangered wildlife Our native animals are so vulnerable to feral species in the wild that a major rethink of long-standing policy (that many native animals are illegal to keep as pets) is in… Read More ›
Endangered Sunday: Bilbies
Kids around Australia know the bilby because of a successful program begun over 10 years ago to encourage people to give chocolate bilbies to kids at Easter instead of chocolate bunnies
Politics vs Policy: how superficial gamesmanship steals our future
This should be shaping up as the real issue in the upcoming Federal election – for both the PM and the Leader of the opposition. What do either of them really offer for the future of Australia? Sadly, how would we know, when the media encourages both of them to “win the week’s news headlines” instead of pushing for bigger goals and the comprehensive plans to make them happen?
Endangered Sunday: Bluefin Tuna
With stocks of Atlantic bluefin tuna down 75 per cent due to over-fishing, the European Commission said the trade ban’s rejection threatened the survival of the ocean predator. Environmental group Greenpeace also warned the vote ”sets the species on a pathway to extinction”.
Endangered Sunday: Year of the Tiger
Extrapolations from the current rates of poachers killing wild tigers predict that there could well be zero tigers living in the wild by the next Chinese Year of the Tiger in 2022.
Piers Akerman quotes a statement nobody else can find – is anybody surprised?
The arithmetic skills, not so hot, are they?
Mixed messages
That’s still a solid lead for Labor and for Rudd as preferred PM.
Endangered Sunday: Andean Condor
I took these photos earlier this month at Taronga Zoo. This juvenile condor is part of the captive breeding program there, and these shots were taken while she performed in the famous Free Flight Bird Show.
Experiments in radically downsized living
I find these kinds of stories fascinating. People choosing to ‘live poor’ (though of course with the capacity to leave when they want to, and also while equipped with the education, networks and self-esteem that a life of opportunity has… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 