Feed The Eagles, Please!

An email I just sent to the Department of Sustainability and the Environment Victoria

2009 Bushfire Aftermath
02/03/10.

A Letter to the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE).

from Omaxa bin Eartha

I, because of dire ideological conspiracies, live “homeless” in a vehicle in the re-forests of Australia.

Lately I've been stopping in Victoria's reforests.

Since the February 2009 wildfires, I've spent time in the effected regions, and have mourned the loss of the natural bush, but particularly the devastating loss of the fauna.

Also, I mourn the deforesting that is going-on, of the burnt-out areas, by loggers.

Unless the DSE has plans for a process of COMPLETE RE-forestation, which must, if DSE wants to prevent future bushfires, include replanting of ALL the original biodiversity, it is unconscionable that the loggers are pretty-much “clear-felling” the burnt-out areas.

It might be of note, that the recent wildfires were in essence, caused by the rabid deforestation process which has been going-on for over 150 years, as well as the extremely bad planning and aftercare of the forests.

Broad-acre planting of what has been classified as a “weed” - radiata pine - on private land, purely as an economic venture, must be stopped, even to the degree of removing them immediately. And ventures which involve broad-acre monocrop cash-crops of eucalypt are equally untenable, whether on Crown land or on private land.

Nevertheless, the other day, I spotted a couple of eagles, flying high.

In my empathic way, I sensed that they were suffering from the loss of creatures, upon which they depend for tucker.

As I noticed the eagles, and that their food supply has gone, I ask the DSE to begin, if not begun already, a survey and count of the remaining wildlife.

As I have come to realise that governments cannot be trusted to do the right thing for the environment, in that it does seem evident that actions taken after such traumatic events are not for the benefit of Nature and the local and global environment, but instead to turn things toward economic advantage, usually via land-clearing for either grazing or subdivision into rural “suburban allotments”, I assert that it is the Duty of DSE, to ensure both native flora and fauna are rehabilitated in areas where this kind of bushfire and clear-felling devastation has occurred.

In regard to the eagles, may I ask, or suggest, that the DSE begins to establish where the surviving birds are nesting, and then begin “food-drops” of meat, so that they do not die off, or are forced to migrate?

Also, as all ground-dwelling animals are gone, all things considered, if the DSE is serious about “sustainability” then they/you would know that the animals and their droppings etc., are integral in maintaining the vital balance of the forests' flora.

Therefore, if possible, it would seem sensible that the DSE, and whoever else wants to help, begin a “re-location campaign” of native animals, possibly from other similar climatic areas with over-populations?

Each weekend, when I'm hiding in the reforests, there are “shooters” around. As there's now no wildlife in the burnt-out areas, I'm left to wonder what they are shooting at.

Whatever...., but, if any native animal “re-location campaign' as recommended above can be instituted, it must be accompanied with a total ban on hunting in these areas, at least for a couple of years.



Yours,

Max Earth
aka Max N Cook

Outlaw,  for
Global Land, Tax, Cult, Drug, & Work Law Reform.