Greater gliders are pretty extraordinary.
These peaceful possums live in leaf-lined hollows and spend their nights foraging high up in the forest canopies. They can glide 100 meters between trees!
But over decades, armies of bulldozers have charged through our forests, knocking down their homes. This must stop.
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Along with the Greater Glider there are so many native animals we have not and may never see in the wild or even in captivity. Development could be a good word meaning progress and positivity but these days it’s a dirty word leaving a trail of destruction and unintended culling of our native fauna and flora. Development for the humans if Australia shouldn’t mean destruction on what is naturally here. We do not consider the ramifications enough when we do small things like widen a road, shrinking and removing green corridors in developed areas resulting in more road kill, disastrous for not only the fauna but people too, cut off animals from their habitats and not allowing them to move about and eventually diminishing their populations. We can’t exist with our concrete. We, educated humans with a conscience and responsibility to be moral and ethical, are not making our decisions considering the future. It’s always now now now. Dig a hole, remove resources and hope there’s more for later, dump rubbish here and assume we’ll never need the land on top for anything, remove vegetation and not think it was holding the soil together.
You need to do less and think more.
Thank you.
M Stanton
THE ANIMALS NEED US MORE THAN EVER
If you don’t protect our wildlife, who will.
The earth is not yours to ruin and take, humans along with the rest of the creatures need our environment to survive so stop killing everything , money can’t be eaten
Loss of old growth forest will mean extinction for this and many other species. Extinction is for ever.
I am writing to raise your awareness of the need for stronger environment laws to protect our forests and so many precious critically endangered species. The Greater Glider along with many other species such as the Southern Corroboree Frog , Swift Parrot, Leadbeater’s possum and Helmeted Honeyeaters, and 41 other critically endangered species are rapidly declining in numbers due to habitat loss from extensive logging.
Despite the fact that Australia is one of the most beautiful and biodiverse countries in the world, we’ve become the only developed country with a major deforestation front, with over one million hectares of old growth Bush land disappearing in the last three years. We are Number 2 in the world for killing off our native wildlife and plants!! It is embarrassing and such a disappointment! Once these precious forests and species are lost there is no turning back. Gone is gone!
We need these ancient, historical and truly beautiful forests not only to protect the homes of over 40 critically endangered species but for clean air so that we don’t have polluted cities and suburbs. Old growth forests ensure that we have clean waterways, help to build resilient soils, pollinate food crops, control pests and diseases and provide enchanted, majestic areas for recreation!
Please do everything you can in your power to cease logging in old growth forests and create new environmental laws that will protect our precious forests forever! These decisions will deeply influence my votes next election!
We are so lucky to have such unique wildlife in Australia. Unfortunately due to lack of strong environmental laws so many of them are already extinct and so may are heading that way. Why do we allow the destruction of their homes? Why do allow this mass clearing of the forests and woodlands? This is their home, and a place that as humans can go and enjoy the peace and beauty of nature. Please do all you can to stop land clearing.
Please put in place stronger national environment laws to protect the places and wildlife us Australians love.
Please raise this issue with your party leader.
Something needs to be done before many Australian animals become extinct.
We need to stop the destruction of their home, you wouldn’t stand for this with humans for what stand for it will animals?
Australia is a very inique, and fragile environment which has continued to have a lot of very unique animals species which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. To protect these species is paramount to our environment, but also plays a part in our economy with tourism being built on the uniqueness of our animals. Good and clear environmental laws are needed to protect the animals on our unique and important continent.
Stop logging the greater gliders home NOW
We need stronger environment laws to keep Australia Australian – save our unique wildlife and habitat.
I am 17 years of age, and I plan to travel and see the world when I graduate high school. I fear that we are losing our environment at such a rapid rate that I will not be able to experience our native flora and fauna when I travel around Australia.
This rapid loss is devastating, and it is up to the people of Australia to voice a need for change, but it is up to our government to listen. Please, on behalf of the young people who are yet to see the beauty our country has to offer, hear us now before it is too late.
Saving our forests and woodlands is imperative for a healthy countryside and the consequent ability to supply us with food. the Greater Glider eats thousands of harmful insects and avoids the need for harmfull pesticides. We must act to save it.
The status of the Greater Glider is vulnerable due to extensive habitat loss.
We need strong environment laws to protect the greater glider and all other endangered species, so that they are not lost forever.
The Greater Glider would have to be one of the cutest animals in Australia. Wouldn’t it be absolutely deplorable if the only Greater Glider our grandchildren ever saw was a stuffed display in a museum or as pictures in magazines, books or in film media? These animals deserve the best possible environmental protection available no matter what the cost. Once it’s gone, it will never come back.
We need stronger envornment laws
We need to act now to stop environmental degradation and further species extinction!
We need to think about our actions and the impact on our environment .
Logging has a impact on so many defenceless animals .
Let’s think about the planet and all the animals we are destroying and STOP now !
We can all do better .