It's Not All Doom and Gloom!
I watched @kevinli's video this morning about how there's not much hope for our natural environment. He has a point, we are building over our natural environment very quickly. But there are still some positive things happening out there. So when I hear a negative story like this, sometimes I like to find a positive story to balance it out.
Thankfully, I live very close to a positive example about how we're protecting our environment. And I wanted to share this story with you today.
Today I'm bringing you to the Edithvale and Seaford Wetlands, which is located in the Southern suburbs of Melbourne.
These wetlands are significant for a couple of reasons:
- They aid in treating contaminated water before it reaches our groundwater systems
- They provide habitat for local and migratory bird species
You can read more about how critical wetlands are for our natural environment here.
These wetlands used to be very large (thousands of hectares) but now only a few hundred hectares remain. While this is sad, what remains is protected and cannot be built on. The wetlands are also fenced, which prevents human access and reduces the ease with which feral animals can prey on the native animals that live here.
So this is a real positive step in the right direction. Our government finally recognised the importance of this wetland and we can enjoy spending time there without causing harm to it since it's located right here on our doorstep.
And the best thing about this wetland is that it's located smack bang in the middle of a built up suburb in Melbourne, which proves that we can support our natural environment while living alongside it.
So there you have it, it's not all bad news!
If you watch the video to the end you may also see my dog make a celebrity appearance.
Have you come across any positive environment stories? Tell me about them!
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Hmm, seems like we still destroyed most of it though. We are good at that.
We are, the positive aspect is that what remains is protected and used for community education. :)
Yes! I always think there is so much FUD being pumped out in regards to the environment, people forget there are others out there trying to secure wildlife lands and do their part.
There are many wetlands here in the US that have lost a lot of land as well, but we are starting to recognize more and do what we can to help preserve what is left. Hopefully new life will cultivate there as the years go by.
There is a lot of FUD out there. I've always wondered if talking about how the planet supports us would be better than screaming about how it's all going to hell? Our governments might listen if they understood how the planet actually allows us to exist.
Wait. What? A post about something positive going on with the environment. That's...that's...hunh. Look at that. Man and nature coexisting. Whodathunkit?
I don't know that we need to purposefully run around poisoning our ecosystems. However, I do believe that the earth is here to be used by man. So, with our enlightened understanding now of how things work and how we affect things with change, if there is a way to provide a better integration of the two, so be it.
It's tough for me to get my brain around the government being slow to recognize anything as a wetland, though. I live in Oregon, where literal puddles can be wetlands. :) Okay, slight exaggeration, but you'd be surprised at how close it is around here to that.
Our government has always been quite anti environment. We have one of the 7th Wonders of the World here (The Great Barrier Reef) and yet it will be gone within our lifetime. The government has known that something needs to be done for decades but are too slow to act and too in love with coal.
It's easy to write about doom and gloom though, so I wanted to put up something happy for once.
Okay, so you're talking one of the seven wonders of the natural world. We seem to keep coming up with seven wonders of the world lists. :)
Interesting. Here, there are massive tracts of land in Alaska, Nevada, Utah and elsewhere throughout the western U.S. that are controlled by the federal government for the strict purpose of preserving the land, so they've actually gone the opposite way and taken it away from the states. Not sure what all they actually do with it, or how well they're preserving it.
So, is the run off from the coal mining killing the barrier reef?
I’m never confident that the Feds will be able to do better work than the states. We have a similar problem here.
Run off from coal mining and agriculture combined with warming ocean temperatures is killing the reef. Fixing the problems facing it is a huge challenge that should have started many decades ago. So far all that has been done is further research rather than any real work. It’s quite sad.
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