{"id":1593,"date":"2011-06-21T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2011-06-21T21:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T11:20:24","slug":"another-farmers-comment-on-conservation-at-mission-beach-nq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/another-farmers-comment-on-conservation-at-mission-beach-nq\/","title":{"rendered":"Another farmer’s comment on conservation – at Mission Beach (NQ)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a classic comment on farmers and conservation<\/a>, written by\u00a0Mission Beach farmer, Maurice Franklin.<\/p>\n

A must-read for anyone who thinks farmers don’t care\u00a0for the environment and that the natural environment and farming can’t co-exist.\u00a0 And the recent residential development\u00a0around Mission Beach should give everyone cause for serious thought.\u00a0\u00a0Queensland’s wet tropics region is only a tiny percentage of Australia’s land mass, in percentage terms.\u00a0 And this region is spectacularly beautiful with many unique species of plants, animals, insects etc.\u00a0 Many people fall in love with the rainforest and reef while on holidays, then move north and\u00a0into a freshly erected brick and tile\u00a0suburban box on land that was not long before either very productively growing food for native animals or food for human beings – or more likely, both, to some degree or another.\u00a0 Typically these houses are surrounded by\u00a06 foot pine fences enclosing lawn, cement slabs, pavers, pebbles\u00a0and swimming pools – with barely enough room even for a palm tree or two (often not even a native palm, instead something relatively useless for native animals) – and certainly no room for trees.<\/p>\n

It’s time everyone acknowledged that urban\u00a0sprawl is incredibly bad for the environment.\u00a0 There is absolutely nothing good about towns and cities, from an environmental point of view, except that the environmental damage is concentrated in one spot rather than more spread out.\u00a0 If Australian suburban residents\u00a0have a native plant or two in their own backyards it’s usually happened\u00a0by sheer accident not by design.<\/p>\n

All Australian residential development should be more tightly regulated than is currently the case, to preserve as much of our pristine bush and vital food-producing land as possible.\u00a0\u00a0Cities are the most environmentally compromised places on the planet and it’s time they were recognised as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a classic comment on farmers and conservation, written by\u00a0Mission Beach farmer, Maurice Franklin. A must-read for anyone who thinks farmers don’t care\u00a0for the environment and that the natural environment and farming can’t co-exist.\u00a0 And the recent residential development\u00a0around Mission Beach should give everyone cause for serious thought.\u00a0\u00a0Queensland’s wet tropics region is only a tiny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11],"tags":[176,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}