I didn’t how endangered they were. I also find it appalling that the Australian government only donated 750K to each vaccine program.
We went to Oz with a bunch of Muslim physicians one of whom had been to a koala reserve and who’s brother was their ambassador to Oz
We told him about the Chlamydia at dinner after he’d been - we found it funny
Sad. I was lucky to see few, one in a wild reserve, he came down the tree and slothed across the ground to another tree. They don’t walk fast…
There is considerable concern about the fate of koalas.
The real national crisis, however, is that Windykins is “appalled”. There is widespread wailing, knashing of teeth and rendiing of clothing at that news.
Of course federal financial support for a couple of individual research efforts is a pretty small part of the overall state and federal government programs, which include:
the Threatened Species Action Plan,
the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act,
the National Recovery Plan for the Koala,
funding for the largest number of national parks in the world (>650),
extensions to state forests.
Overall, hundreds of millions annually.
Even the Koala Conservation and Protection Package gets $74 million.
Of course, support for nature protection programs tends strongly to the left politically. I wonder if Windykins gets confused about which way to go when feeding his compulsive need for a daily santorum of outrage about nothing.
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Those cute little things along with things that hop are reasons $$$$ go into the country.
How can I live in Australia, be Australian, and not be aware of this!
(That is not sarcasm, it is not something I am aware of or has received much media in recent times in the media I might get a chance to read/watch).
looked this up and instantly regretted it
Actually stuff coming out of the ground is the reason for the $$$$. Then a funny bridge that looks like a coat hanger, next to a pointy-roofed building. The furry critters maybe $$. But point taken, they ARE important and locals DO care.
Dunno. It’s not a new issue. I first read about it in 1979 (yep, I remember it clearly). Are you sure you are a ridgie-didge, dinky-die, fair-dinks, authentic Australian? Have you wrestled a crocodile, drop-kicked a drop-bear, kissed a shark, or put an inland taipan down your grundies for the fun of it,… or are you just a pretender? Truth now…
Sorry, but don’t blame the messenger. Windy=santorum=Windy=santorum. He demonstrates it daily. I don’t know why, but I guess he can’t help himself. And you can’t unsee it.
Yes, if you add international students, business travel and leisure travel, then combined tourism has been as high as 4th or 5th for export earnings. About a third of iron ore, for example. I’d guess cute furry critters account for about 2% of that. It’s the free love that is the real attraction to tourists from repressed nations.
I know my budgie smugglers from my speedos.
I also know who invented the pavlova, where Crowded House came from and which country Russell Crowe is really from.
And I actually used to live down the road from him in good old Coff’s.
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The bigger issue is the number of koalas that are refusing to take the vaccine.
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Even I know this.
Where is Bill Gates when you need him… tsk tsk
So you’re actually a Kiwi?
Referring to sluggos as speedos was the giveaway. Rookie mistake.
And if you could get them to practice social distancing, they wouldn’t have chlamydia in the first place.
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