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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Many of our native fauna such as the Greater Glider are in danger of extinction because of excessive land clearing.
We are degrading our own ecosystem by bulldozing native vegetation for short-term gain, without sufficient concern about the long-term damage to our environment.
We need STRONG environmental laws to protect all wildlife and the places they need to live and breed.
Please raise the issue with your party leadership
and ask them the question: What kind of a world do you want your grandchildren to inherit?
we need strong environmental laws to protect our planet. do your job properly and stop wrecking the planet
Right now nearly two thousand different species – are at risk of extinction. The main reason for this is because logging companies are razing their forests. Oil and gas corporations are destroying habitat and deafening their families with seismic blasting. Coal barons are cooking our climate and defrosting their icy mountain-top homes.
Like us, these creatures and their families are part of our fragile web of life. Break that web and everything unravels.
Australia need strong national environmental laws to protect our native flora and fauna and I would like to see this matter addressed in a serious fashion by the Federal Government. To date they have only been paying lip service to protecting the places and wildlife that makes this country such a unique place in which to live.
Please enact stronger environmental laws to ban any logging of old growth forests.
Politicians are standing by while our treasury of unique Australian wildlife is plundered for commercial profit.
There’s no point in closing the door when all is lost!
Animals and there habitat need to be protected. Energy policy needs to change to incorporate renewable sources, and animal agriculture should be gradually phased out. Forest regrowth in saved land and substantive protection of wildlife should be the policy direction of our leaders.
.All animals are so unique and special and all including this cute Greater Glider should be protected .Please be their hero and their voice ?
The Greater Glider and hundreds of our species are becoming extinct at an alarming rate.
Our World is in a desperate situation. We are damaging our own ecosystem by knocking down rainforests, (which are the lungs of the Earth) and bulldozing without thinking about the damage to our environment and ecosystem.
We need STRONG environmental laws to protect all wildlife and the places they need to breed and live.
Please raise the issue with your Party Leader.
Ask them the Question;
What kind of a World do you want your grandchildren to inherit!
We need stronger environment laws as the forests are habitat for wildlife such as Greater Gliders, old trees are especially important to keep for wildlife.
Having seen these amazing creatures in the wild many years ago I am saddened to hear of their habitat destruction. Our government needs to work to protect our native forests to save this endangered creature and many more like it.
Hurry up and do something.
The world is a beautiful place. Full of wild and wonderful creatures and habitats. But for how long? The web of life is literally a web. Everything is connected. If we make irreparable holes and gaps in it by allowing more land clearing, over fishing and over development, an imbalance will destroy life across the board and will eventually take us with it. What kind of world do you want your grandchildren and their grandchildren to inherit?
We need stronger environmental laws to save endangered animals such as the currently vulnerable Greater Glider.
Dear Tony,
I am an concerned citizen from Wesburn in the Yarra valley. The protection of threatened species like the greater glider is a priority for me. Please consider this and act where you can to protect our environment and in particular species that will never return once lost.
Regards, Peter Martin
Hello,
My concern is we are not doing enough quickly enough. The planning departments of all sides of Government when they pass DA’s for the demolition of land, trees, forests for urban development do not ever consider or even are required by law to plan green areas, parks, tracts of unoccupied land, tree corridors and hence the loss of local habitat and extinctions continues unabated.
I would love to change the way we do future planning because I am not against development just need thought and consideration for the wildlife so we can co-exist a little better.
Thank you for your consideration
Kerrie Richards
Please support stronger environmental laws. We have the highest extinction rate in the world!
This needs to stop. How are animals becoming extinct in this day and age.
Disgusting
If a cute and cuddly creature like the Greater Glider is facing extinction what chance has the less photogenic animals and fauna have? It is our guardianship responsibility to protect wildlife, fauna and their habitat. Please do not let more extinctions to occur due to apathy. Take action now to legislate for strong environmental laws to protect what is left. Extinction is forever. Thank you for your your considered attention and action.
Regards,
Anna Uszko
Just remember that we depend on the diversity of wildlife, not only for the beauty but really for the functioning of the world, there are so many details that we don’t know of that make it all function so well, it is always a bad idea to tamper with it.
The fact that any of our wildlife may be nearing extinction is a serious cause for alarm, and it is also pretty embarrassing for a country who prides itself with our diverse and amazing environments and creatures.
It is ALL of our responsibility to protect our wildlife in Australia and as a member of our government, the weight of this responsibility falls largely on you.
PLEASE make every effort you can to create policies desperately needed to protect the future for our wonderful wildlife. We need your help to do this.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
We need stronger environmental laws to protect beautiful native Australian animals. Please make sure that our laws protect our native fauna and flora from endangerment, extinction, and destruction.