Dear OUG (Johan),

The tropical rainforest is an ecosystem that contains the most abundant life on the planet, with as many as 200 different species in a single acre. As soon as a road is bulldozed through the virgin forest there after, farmers or ranchers move in and burn the jungle to the ground, destroying all animals and plant life. The newcomers then try to convert the land to agricultural purposes - but within a few years, it becomes barren wasteland and the farmers move to repeat the process elsewhere. Despite the luxuriant appearance of the jungle, the soil in these areas is very poor. Rain forests have evolved over 60 million years in such a way that decaying materials are immediately broken down by humidity and fungi and returned to the plants, so virtually all the nutrients are held in the vegetation itself. Once the forest cover is gone, rainfall soon leaches the remaining nutrients from the soil, leaving a moonscape in place of abundant life.

for the reasons you laidout
the amazon's biggest crop
[soy..for those discusting soy latte's]
is doomed to fail..

so maybe the thinking is flood it
for the greenie cash..[payed with carbon credits]
nice clean green hydro energy...its great mate

http://landofthefuture.wordpress.com/
More concerning are the massive dams planned in the Amazon,

..PAC 2 plans over 50 hydropower dams
with innovative approaches to preserve*...

[aint that a clever buzz word]

just like clean coal became clean power
global warming became 'climate change'

and only 1000 will pay
became only 500..[making tony..phoney tony]

the signs are all there
but if its green it god

recycle means make a huge greenie bin
on top of the other basic bin
then we get green waste bins

so much plastic
but holocost deneier..that sticks

lets talk about the detail
so juliar talks about tony
[or rupert]..or anything but the huge fraud[lies]

what they want all them damm dams for?
http://www.powermag.com/renewables/hydro/Brazil-Approves-Hotly-Contested-Construction-of-Amazon-Dam_1620.html

""Among its most salient plans
is the construction of 50 to 60 nuclear power plants,..."'

yep green pride
clean green clean out
lord mokton maybe right

but it might be even worse than he says
you do know it takes acid baths and alkali baths
and huge water use

to make the poisen soy..into curd
and soy juice

background searches
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=50+hydro+dams+amazon&btnG=Search&oq=50+hydro+dams+amazon&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=275821l281451l0l284795l4l4l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0

http://www.google.com/search?q=hydrodams+amazon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belo_Monte_Dam

Ammonite

Thats very kind of you. I only just noticed it doesn't really show the enormous area- those big mountains you see are part of it.

I just emailed Keith Wife & suggested she may like to join the thread. I am not sure if she will - because its very raw for her.

When you get up to the top of the mountain its a close as one comes to Gods country. To Keith and Shirley this is their home for many decades. They have a cabin up top solar which was built long ago.

Keith was a very private non commercial chap, unique intelligent as his his wife.I recall many years ago Keith was very put out because the council built a bus shelter somewhere down the road.
He complained about commercialism taking over:) there was nothing else for miles & miles. Eventually he manged to get rid of the blessed thing as he called it.In my whole life I have never met better people. Keith's up there with his Animals and wildlife watching out.But I really must get some pics up-in the mountains its enormous.

Lexi Hi to you and thats everybody for the links.

Save The Wildlife




See the seals swimming away
The little foxes as happy as ady
The baby birds flying above
The lions resting with their cubs

The animals seem all so free
untill the humans kill as much as can be
why all this cruelty can't it stop
What have they done, what is up?

Save the wildlife, keep them from harm
for they are God's creatures, only charm
Keep them free, keep them safe
have some kindness in your place

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Lucy Doyles

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/save-the-wildlife/

Lexi (Johan),

That what your both speaking of I saw on 60 minutes too. It`so outrageous to think they would even contemplate it. The people in US seem to be onto it but i dont know much. Do we know if $ has exchanged hands with the government yet? Probably but if not they should see if it can be outbid.

Yabby, yes the AWC appears to be doing very well in terms of habitat protection for rare species.

I’ve been doing botanical surveys for them for the last few years on Mt Zero / Taravale near Townsville. I’ve turned up several completely new species as well as known but undescribed species, officially rare or threatened species and big range extensions for quite a few others. It is fascinating stuff.

They appear to have weeds and fire management well under control.

Unfortunately, one of the key animal species for which Taravale was purchased seems to have disappeared – the northern bettong.

I’ve got to say that there seems to be a real contrast between their management concerns and abilities and those of national parks… unfortunately!

In fact, while national parks are certainly good for habitat protection per se, there is more than a grain of truth about some of the complaints from landholders that they harbour weeds and ferals and create conditions that are likely to lead to wildfire, which can then spread to adjacent properties.

These factors can also prejudice the ability for some native species to survive on these reserves.

It is highly unfortunate that the management regime just isn’t up to scratch for a lot of our national parks and other reserves. And consequently, some of the rare species that we would like to think are safely contained in national parks are not as secure as they should be.

*Yabby, yes the AWC appears to be doing very well in terms of habitat protection for rare species*

Luwig, thanks for that, it is certainly what I have heard. The
world is full of people with good intentions, that does not mean
that they get results. If we donate to charity then we want to
know that the money is well spent. AWC sounds like an organisation
which does exactly that.