Orange bellied parrots and planning

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xjjohnno
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Orange bellied parrots and planning

An item on last night's ABC 7.30 Report had  me thinking the Federal Environment minister had it spot on by blocking a planning decision to build a marina at Westernport Bay due to the need to protect habitats for the orange bellied parrots. While there hadn't been recent reported sightings I was wondering about the wisdom in reducing habitats suited to the bird should their population once again increase.

Woko
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We also need to keep in mind that it's not only orange bellied parrots that use that habitat, xjohnno. I wonder what the marina builders will do to relieve their boredom once we have coast to coast marinas in this great nation of ours.

xjjohnno
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Woko, I'm in total agreement with you. They kind of fail to realise that a diverse range of creatures depend on those habitats.

The fast buck brigade are always out to mess up another habitat area in the interests of "progress" of their bank accounts.

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