Our guest in The Sustainable Hour on 1 August 2018 is Craig Morley from Geelong Field Naturalists Club, who is joined on the phone by Sean Dooley, editor of Australian Birdlife, which is published by Birdlife Australia.

We talk recycling and plastic pollution with Kirsty Bishop-Fox, Zero Waste Victoria, co-organiser of the Zero Waste Festival in Brunswick on Sunday, and Colin Mockett presents a global outlook on plastic regulation in different countries.

Music: Andy Paine’s ‘Dont Just Sit Waiting’ and Missy Higgins’ ‘The Difference’.

 

“Responsibility lies with us as a community to demand our elected representatives implement better protection for nature.”

~ Act for Birds, on Birdlife Australia’s campaign website

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Craig Morley

The Curlew Sandpiper is struggling for survival. The number of birds has seen an 80 per cent decline in the last 30 years, and is now in eminent danger of extinction. It flies for thousands of kilometres from Siberia to the Moolap Flats east of Geelong, but won’t have a home if that area is developed.

Geelong Field Naturalists Club and BirdLife Australia have called on the lack of action and the ongoing threat to vulnerable bird.

Craig Morley tells us in The Sustainable Hour that there will be further delays in the release of the state government’s final Moolap Coastal Strategic Framework plan report.

“While the government can be praised for updating and modernising the plans, regulations and legislation associated with the protection of flora and fauna, native vegetation clearing etc during its four-year term, the on ground follow up on key issues leaves a question mark on their environmental report card. Where there are commercial interests involved, their commitment to biodiversity seems to falter; Hooded Plovers / Belfast Beach, Shorebirds / Moolap and Leadbeater’s possum/logging come immediately to mind,” writes Geelong Field Naturalists Club in a newsletter.

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