Valkie wrote on May 20
th, 2019 at 5:27am:
We used to have a sizable population of kolas on the central coast.
But through years of greenies preventing backfiring, the fuel got to such a high level, that when the inevitably fire broke out, it killed every single one of them.
In the past, they could escape small fires and then repopulate, as they have done for thousands of years.
But the immense build up of national park and greenie opposition to safe fuel reduction meant that a perfect storm was approaching.
Allowing fire trails to grow over, putting up fences and gates, meant that firefighters could not get to the fires as they burned out of control.
Yes, thanks to greenies and the national ( lock EM out) parks.
We no longer have kolas .
It's development and the increased population / traffic associated with it up here in SEQ.
We rode dirtbikes around SEQ back in the 80s. Our tracks were thin and covered vast areas. I got stopped by cops one day and they fined me. That was the last time I ever stopped for anyone. He told us that we were doing huge damage to the koalas habitat. I tried reasoning explaining that our footprint is so small that we couldn't possibly be killing them. Anyway, that mentality went right through our local council and eventually dirtbikes were outlawed, however you could still ride a mountain bike on the same tracks.....brain dead greenies.
Then along comes the developer.
Over then next 20yrs, and it is still happening, the council along with several developers absolutely destroyed the bushland. Our little single tracks were now tarmac roads, some 4 lanes wide. Koalas just dwindled. 5000 critters in 96 to just 1000 or so in 2008 and very hard to find a figure now.
Little greeny groups started up blaming all sorts of things from us dirtbikes, to cats, dogs etc, while most of them lived in the new estates (they weren't in town before that, we all knew each other pretty well) driving their range rovers living in their 200sq house, 2 cats etc etc.
Dirtbikes stopped, little outcrops of bushland were fenced off ( until the developer wanted the land of course) speed limits dropped drastically to the point you had to pay careful attention to the time of day because the speed limit changed, and you bet your left nut the cops were there to remind you of the change with a ticket. You couldn't fart in public without getting a fine yet the koalas still dwindled. These arseholes made so much money off the koala propaganda yet the numbers still decreased and nothing those useless dupes did could stop it.
Councilors are stupid people. They are impractical people with no real living experience. Okay, maybe 1 in 1000 has a brain but the rest are just stupid art class wannabees that most likley never went near a bushland when they grew up. They're just disconnected people. One of the main instigators of the lock down has a street smack bang in the middle of koala central named after her......
Owell. That's what happens when dumb people get some power. Irrational decisions without any common sense.
Goodbye koalas.