Monday, August 24, 2009

Saving the Daintree Rainforest!

So this past weekend i did a little conservation work that dealt with saving and developing a new part of the rainforest up in the tablelands. It was really hard work but inspiring at the same time. Though i dont think physical labour is the route for me, participating in the conservation effort for one weekend was good. the best part of the entire work was mucking about the bush chopping down overgrown tobacco trees with machetes. the larger they were the easier they were to chop down which i found fascinating. it was the little ones that took all the effort to get rid of.
People have dedicated their lives to this conservation work which i think is quite a task since seeing the fruits of your labour doesn't happen until years later. I am very much a "see your progress as you go" type of person and get mentally exhausted doing something if i don't see the actual effects of that pretty quicky.
besides all that my computer crashed with massive viruses and now have to erase my hardrive... i knew this was going to happen!...see i am psychic!

2 comments:

  1. did you do it through CVA? my project was with mahogany gliders, although I didn't see any but our group set up everything so that the group after us got 5!

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  2. yep it was with them and i was supposed to do the mahogany gliders but then they informed me that they put me on the wrong list...so i just planted and watered trees...

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