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Conservation concerns us all

What a beautiful picture! Our lovely blue and green Earth with its swirling white cloud patterns set against the stark blackness of space. It’s simply breathtaking. These now-familiar views of our home planet taken from the moon have caused a lot of people to change their thinking about our society; and their place in it. From space there are no visible political boundaries. There are just huge interconnected mountain ranges, forests, rivers, and oceans, and one big, interdependent global community.

But back down on Earth, things aren’t so pretty. Radioactive emissions, oil spills, toxic chemical leaks; strip-mined landscapes; clear-cut rainforests; vanishing plants, birds, and animals; huge killer storms and mudslides; increasing competition for dwindling resources; famine, disease and poverty – the unhappy list goes on and on.

All of these events are connected to a variety of environmental issues, especially over-consumption of limited resources. What’s more, these issues are all related to each other in one-way or another. It can get confusing pretty quickly. So instead of standing there and scratching your head in bewilderment come and join us in the Station Conservation Group and let’s scratch our heads together and come up with some ideas. Conservation should allow positive changes to take place while, at the same time trying to look after what we have. Conservation concerns us all.

We want to conserve species and habitats for their beauty and out of compassion. The most important reason for conservation though, is that each and every organism on earth is a single thread of a fragile web of life. With each severed thread our own tenuous hold on to the web is made to be much weaker.

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