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26-Feb-07, 07:35 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Gold Coast Age: 21 | | | |
this thread has really inspired me, Im sick to death of people giving no consideration to our wildlife which is facing new and endangering threats everyday. I have been thinking about how to make people aware that things like bird mesh causes damage to our native floura and fauna. I have a suggestion to all of you out there and it may have a huge impact.
Go straight to the source of the problem as in Bunnings, gardening centres, etc and talk to management to see if they will consider placing signage, made by us promoting the dangers of using the products. this doesnt have to stop with bird mesh it can be used for anything that endangers our wildlife.
If we could pool together some of the images of wildlife being harmed in the way that "snakeman" has shown above, we could put together laminated flyers explaining to the customer that the product they are chosing can cause these sorts of problems. this way we are educating the people then it is upto their concience as to whether or not the chose to use the product or not.
Please give consideration to this as i think all of us herps and nature lovers would like to do everything in our power to solve the problem, if not reduce it.
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26-Feb-07, 07:38 PM
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to add to my statement above if the distributor is not willing to put up this sort of signage then maybe you could ask them to consider giving appropriate instuctions as to how to use the product in a manner which does not harm our beloved wildlife.
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26-Feb-07, 07:38 PM
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Very true Bunnykin . Barbed wire is definitely another one of humans inventions that leaves a trail of destruction on our native wildlife.
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26-Feb-07, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by bundy  to add to my statement above if the distributor is not willing to put up this sort of signage then maybe you could ask them to consider giving appropriate instuctions as to how to use the product in a manner which does not harm our beloved wildlife. |
I'm sorry to say mate but this is so far from what ever will happen. I work in the retail/wholesale sector and I can tell you
number 1 there isn't just one or two companies that manufacture these products there a hundreds if not millions and most of them are cheap offshore "companies" or should i call them money makers and
number 2 they don't write any warnings they don't have to by law and even then most of them ( meaning millions of them) get away without it anyway and
number 3 as this is not seen as harm to humans ( CONSUMERS ) this isn't a matter for consumer affairs as far as policing.
sorry to kill this dream but there is another way we just have to work it out mate
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26-Feb-07, 08:23 PM
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There is some netting that is used by the vineyards here in Vic. But it appears a lot finer. I gather that it's main purpose is to deter the European Wasp plagues that attack the grapes?? Perhaps if these companies used these finer nets it wouldn't pose as much danger to wildlife as we've seen. That said, maybe c-o-a-r-s-e-r (for Pete's sake it's not a bloody swear word!!!  ) nets work better with detering birds???...but I don't see how?
To me the situation is like saying we're going to string a net across a river to stop Carp, but the truth is we'd be also killing platypus and native fish along with it. I think it's about time this situation came to light. I'd be interested in the pro's and con's concerning the use of various grades of netting. I don't wish to hinder peoples livelihoods with this, and I'm sure that it'd anger farmers should they have further struggles & conditions imposed on them (I mean, it's hard enough with the drought and water restrictions without this going on), but as the high-impact being we all are, some changes should be made for the better good.
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26-Feb-07, 08:27 PM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: Gold Coast Age: 21 | | | Quote:
I'm sorry to say mate but this is so far from what ever will happen. I work in the retail/wholesale sector and I can tell you
number 1 there isn't just one or two companies that manufacture these products there a hundreds if not millions and most of them are cheap offshore "companies" or should i call them money makers and
number 2 they don't write any warnings they don't have to by law and even then most of them ( meaning millions of them) get away without it anyway and
number 3 as this is not seen as harm to humans ( CONSUMERS ) this isn't a matter for consumer affairs as far as policing.
sorry to kill this dream but there is another way we just have to work it out mate
| im sure that is the case, im just saying that there is no harm in asking. if they did allow it even though there are thousands of distributors and what not, even if it only gets through to a few customers then at least thats a few customers that are aware of it instead of none.
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