All creatures great and small

Is Tasmania on its final curtain call?? Are the alarm bells ringing on deaf ears??? Or is it just an inconvenient time to be an inhabitant of Tasmania.

Why is it that so many life forms can no longer survive in today’s misleading interpretation of a clean green environment.

To spend a little serious time in thought on our latest casuality, (the disappearance our common sparrow just in the last few months) is perhaps a hefty jolt to many people with the realisation that very serious happenings are afoot.

I would be interested to be given a learned answer to where several million of just one species of bird has gone in such a very short space of time, this along with many other creatures that once populated this island, most common butterflies have disappeared, as a kid every pond and pool was the home of tadpoles, but the frog today is as hard to find as the elusive fox that is simply regarded as a lucretive windfall for the few infected believers pushing that line and the gullibility of the public to accept it.

This phenomenon cannot be blamed on nature, it is obviously the act of man’s greed and his belief that if falsehoods are spoken often enough they then become the truth, . I’m sure if a legitimate study was commissioned many truths would be revealed into what the past 220 years of European settlement has meant to Tasmania and just what may be left in the unlikely event that the total deverstation plans of today could be stopped immediately.

I would also be interested for other senior Tasmanians to remember the many common smaller creatures they were familiar with as children that no longer can be found, surely this must rate highly among the Devils demise and the well known Tiger saga some seventy years ago, it has shown while each animal and insect has had its own benificial role to play. the human species has today moulded the whole world around personal comfort and greed not only at his own peril but all other forms of life on this planet of turmoil and conflict.
Geoff Smedley