Rainforest Rehabilitation – a must read!
“Nowadays if Leichhardt’s Beech is planted at all it is likely to be as a street tree. Its neat round headed habit, its straight smooth trunk and tidy bole, together with its moderate rate of growth, are positive advantages when it comes to being planted in pavements, close to walls and buildings. When I see the White Beeches along the boulevards of the Gold Coast, marooned between roaring carriageways, buffeted by fume-laden draughts, far from their in-dwelling invertebrates, their phalangers and parrots, their festoons of vines and garlands of epiphytes, I pray for them to disqualify themselves for such ignominy by dying soon, but instead, dwarfed, filthy and ragged, they suffer on.”
(Germaine Greer, page 35, White Beech)
“White Beech” by Germaine Greer
This book affirmed my belief in habitat rehabilitation. I already know it is perfectly possible. Earth and Leaf is a “Friend of the Gondwana Rainforest.
Greer concludes, persuasively, that if we are to exercise proper stewardship of the Earth we must be prepared, at times, to embrace the possibility of a loss of human control.
Global warming is powered by selfish actions that also drive extinctions !
These are rare Australian Ghost Bats. Their habitat is being destroyed to create farmland to graze cattle. As you explore Earth and Leaf you will realise quickly that we must graze far fewer cattle and stop eating red meat.
Sixty percent of the weight of mammals on earth are farm animals grown as food for us. Seventy percent of the birds on our world are on farms grown for food for us. Sixty per cent of farm land on earth is used to grow feed for farmed animals and birds to feed us.
In conclusion, we must free up much of that precious land. Global warming is the single most serious issue affecting our world. If we are to survive, we must reverse global warming. Join us to find out what you and your community can do !
Environments at Risk
Unelievably, it is Brazil’s plan to turn the Pantanal into a waterway that threatens the world’s biggest wetland. This is just to make transportation of Soya, Beef and Sugar easier.
What are our governments doing about this? Very little. As a result we will lose that rainforest.
First of all, the Pantanal covers more than 17 million acres. Second, the Pantanal is the largest tropical wetland and one of the most pristine in the world. It sprawls across three South American countries, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. It supports millions of people there, as well as communities in the lower Rio de la Plata Basin.
The Pantanal
Why would anyone in their right mind destroy Noah’s Ark?
Simple
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