Western Australia - quokkas to die

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Kim & Marie Perrier

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Saturday, March 15, 2003 6:22 PM

Quokka Action urgent

 

Hi all we need some help here.

 

If you can spare anytime could you email the four people on this

list.

I have drafted an email to make it a bit easier, just sign the

bottom and put your city and

country.

if you could send this out to all your friends it would help

heaps.

We are mounting a press release on monday and the more hits we

have on Johns site

the better, this can go into the story. We need thousands if we

can get them.

Kim

 

John Austins site. www.westnet.com.au/jbaphoto

 

NEWS UPDATE

 

Friday 14th March 2003

 

WA Labour Government contractors South West Haulage of Manjimup,

Western

Australia will commence the extinction of the Nairn 06 colony of

quokkas at first light

Monday 17th March 2003. A total of 111 hectares will commence

clear felling,

effectively wiping out 1 meta population. No research on this

group has been done to

date.

 

The Quokka is considered " Rare and vulnerable, liable to

extinction " . As stated by

Calm (Conservation and Land Management) WA Government and the

World

Conservation Union.

 

Local protests are planned to publicly mark this savage act of

lunacy. The government

is desperate to take this area of timber before the Green's

amendment to the WA

Wildlife Conservation Act of 1950, returns to parliament for its

second reading. This

amendment would have protected these animals,

 

For further information about the quokka's view information on

this page.

 

Or view further quokka information on Calm's site.

http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/plants_animals/mammal.quokka.html

 

Please e-mail these people to express your thoughts and feelings

about this act of environmental madness. A statement is included

at

the bottom of this page if you prefer.

 

Hon. Dr Geoff Gallop MLA Premier of Western Australia

geoff-gallop

 

Hon Dr Judy Edwards MLA Minister for the Environment and Heritage

judy-edwards

 

Hon Kim Chance MLA Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry

 

kchance

 

Peter Beatty, WA Forest Products Commission Public Consultation.

peterbe

 

Then ask your friends to do the same, please. If you live in

Western Australia please

come on down to the forest.

 

John Austin

 

E-Mail Statement please copy and paste into your email to the

relevant Ministers.

 

To the Honorable Minister

 

I believe that your actions to clear-fell the Nairn 06 block

threatens the extinction of an

endangered and protected species of Quokka. Your intentions to

remove 111 hectares

of native forest will devastate the current population of Quokkas

in this forest block and

in the process potentially remove all traces of the species from

this area.

 

No research on the southern population has ever been done. As you

are aware

Quokkas are only found in the south west corner of Western

Australia. It is considered

by Calm that all Quokkas north of Collie are in terminal decline.

The Rottenest Island

population suffers from breakdown through inbreeding. The known

groups of Quokka

in the southern forest region of Western Australia have never been

accounted for in any

manner. The Nairn 06 block is one of these relictual populations

and one of the last

refuges in this remote area.

 

Thankyou for reconsidering your current actions.

 

Yours Sincerly

 

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