Dr Alison Bleaney St Helens
Atrazine and simazine are used extensively in Tasmania as well as mainland Australia. The Canola TT ( triazine tolerant) farmers have compared atrazine to aspirin; cheap, effective and easy to use! Sure glad I filter my tap water and perhaps we should ask our respective water bodies to supply us with activated charcoal filters or reverse osmosis filters when we pay our water rates, bills. Pity about the other critters out there in ‘nature’ – who advocates for them?
The Australian
Chemicals linked to lost frogs
AGRICULTURAL chemicals have been linked to the collapse of frog populations, which experts have previously attributed to a combination of climate change and a deadly fungus. Brisbane environmental consultant Glen Ingram, who has studied some of the eight Queensland frog species that have become extinct since the late 1970s, said: “There is a growing view that pesticides have a role in the extinctions of these frogs. Read more here
Down to the last croak
RHEOBATRACHUS silus was one of the world’s truly remarkable animals. The so-called platypus frog was one of a kind. The only species of land vertebrate animal – amphibian, reptile, mammal or bird – to rear its young inside its stomach. That makes the small black frogs as special as kangaroos or koalas. They were found nowhere but in the rainforests of two mountain ranges in southern Queensland. Read more here
