Australia’s complacency in the face of worldwide bee decline

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Published in Independent Australia

Bee decline is now a global problem with up to 90 per cent of our crops at risk. Research showing the chemical neonicotinoids (NNIs) as the main culprit has led to its ban in Europe with USA also resolved to take action. But, here in Australia, there is no ban nor even an investigation.

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Watching – Mullet Lake Park – March 2015
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Osprey – Mullet Lake Park – March 2015

“My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I cannot both live and utter it.” – Henry David Thoureau

It’s been an osprey weekend, both at Mullet Lake Park and at Orlando Wetlands Park. The sun was just right on this bird.

At the wetlands there was a pair of young osprey trying to build a nest on the top of a dead palm. Poor guys, in addition to being a month or two too late, they couldn’t build a nest because there wasn’t enough base – but they have been trying for over a week. We decided they must be young – practicing for next year.

Quote found in the book The Zen of Creativity – John Daido Loori