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Nice to see they are raising awareness sooner rather than later .

They are my favourite Polytelis , I have all 3 and these are the nicest natured birds of them all .

It would be a tragedy if they became another victim of habitat loss .

It would also be nice if one day I could see them in the wild .

Cant beleive there wasnt more interest shown here ...

sounds like a great cause to support.
drive through wheatbelt/broadacre farming areas and take note of the lack of vegitation/cover.
its sad when all thats left is a thin strip by the roadside.
i, for one, didnt fully realise how important "a few trees" could be.
maybe a "small" buyback from the farmers to regenerate more scrub could help?
provide incentive($$$ or tax breaks) for the farmer to increase the corridors(the dept. of primary industry used to do this).
hope something gets off the ground.
more publicity the better....

I would have thought corridors of vegetation along fence lines and road verges etc, and such would not only support native wildlife but would help stop soil erosion as well..

Such schemes are already in place Country capital, good news I think. There are even some bodies that will help farmers with large/important patches of remnant bushland create covenants with the government so the land is also protected by law in future. Interesting fact: rainfall is actually noticeably higher over native vegetation than planted crops, so by clearing all native vegetation from an area farmers really shot themselves in the foot early on. Many over here in the west also face huge problems with dryland salinity caused by rising groundwater levels due to land clearing. Good forsight past people!!! Mind you, these were problems unheard of and not understood in the past. I could go on, but guess most have already stopped reading, so won't

The corridors can also serve as windbreaks , some thing of the past also .