[Huon Forests] Threatened Species Day - This Monday 7 September

[jenny weber]

Hi All,

*Threatened Species Day is this coming Monday, 7^th September - first 
day of the school holidays. *

Tasmania hosts a precious variety of plants and animals that are found 
nowhere else in the world. Many are in danger of extinction – in fact 
over 670 species of plants and animals are listed as rare or threatened, 
including 27% of our native plants. Among these are species which are 
crucial to maintaining the balance and function of our ecosystems. The 
loss of the Tasmanian devil and Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle, for 
example, would have wide-reaching implications throughout the food web. 
Other iconic animals at the top of their respective food chains, the 
giant freshwater crayfish and the great white shark, are also in 
perilous decline. The swift parrot, a migrant breeder in Tasmania’s 
coastal blue gum forests is another iconic species facing a bleak future 
because of Tasmania’s land and forest management policies.

*To mark threatened species day and to promote the critical need for 
government action and habitat protection in order to give these species 
a chance of survival, The Wilderness Society is organising a kids letter 
writing and information session outside the Executive Building in Hobart.*

We hope to get a good bunch of kids of all ages, and parents, to gather 
in the courtyard the Government offices, learn more about threatened 
species and write, draw or scribble a letter to Premier David Bartlett.

In attendance will be our human sized Tasmanian Devil and Swift Parrot, 
a face painter and all you need to write a letter.

Media should also be attending, but if you and you children wish not to 
get filmed or photographed, we can easily ensure that you are not.

*Where: Executive Building Courtyard*

* 15 Murray Street. HOBART*

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*When: Monday 7^th September*

* 12:15 pm*

*Please forward this message and invite you friends and neighbours to 
attend. *Even if you don’t have kids, you are welcome to come along to 
lend your support to help secure the survival of the wonderful 
threatened wildlife we have. After all, Tasmania’s kids deserve to have 
all these species in their future.