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Environmental Weed Action Network
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Posted by Greg_Boyles Vic Aust (veronica@bluep.com) on Thu, May 12, 05 at 10:44
| I need more willing patricipants to make this work. I will need your email address so that I can add it to my distribution list.
The idea is to create chain email network to try and raise community awareness about environmental weeds being sold in retail nurseries, markets and ebay.
Each month or so I will create a new email featuring another environmental weed and send it out into cyberspace. If I can get enough people to participate then environmental weed info will disseminate very quickly through the Australian community.
With luck we might embarrass some/many sellers into withdrawing the featured plants from sale and/or to reduce sales of the featured plants enough for them to be withdrawn from sale. |
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RE: Environmental Weed Action Network
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| Greg, Just a thought. I forwarded your first epistle but it was reasonably obvious the source was Victorian and perhaps you need some allies in the APS groups within the various states to make it more successful, so that each state can have more of a focus on local weeds. Frank |
RE: Environmental Weed Action Network
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- Posted by Popi NSW Aust (My Page) on
Mon, May 16, 05 at 3:25
| Sounds like a good idea, Greg, who would decide what constitutes a weed ? Popi |
RE: Environmental Weed Action Network
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| Popi, I take my info from the various state and federal government sites that I have discovered and that have prompted me into action. Do a Google search on Pennisetum and you will find some of them. For example Pennisetum setaceum is a noxious weed in QLD, Pennisetum villosum is a noxious weed in parts of NSW and Pennisetum m???? (forgotten the name) is a noxious weed in Victoria. So in Victoria Pennisetum setaceum is freely sold and could be taken up to QLD by an unwitting gardener. Willows / Salix sp are a weed of national significance (WONS) but are not listed as a noxious weed in Victoria. The whole administration of noxious weeds is adhoc and fragmentary among state governments, federal government and councils. It is exacerbated by the fact the public and retail nurseries know little or nothing about the whole environmental weed issue. I decided that I can't critiscize governments for doing little or nothing if I am not prepared to lead the charge, so to speak, myself. And the best way to start is to raise public awareness. |
RE: Environmental Weed Action Network
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- Posted by pos02 NSW Aust (My Page) on
Tue, May 17, 05 at 21:33
| I don't know if sending emails will work. I personally ignore these types of bombardment. I believe that to do this properly will mean approaching local councils and gardening TV shows. This will be a lot more difficult however. |
RE: Environmental Weed Action Network
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- Posted by Popi NSW Aust (My Page) on
Wed, May 18, 05 at 0:35
| I hear what you are saying, Greg, about the fragmentary nature of a national weed register.....But...a weed in the colder climate of VIC, may not become a weed in the warm tropical north of the country. So maybe some weeds are just a localised problem and other ones are a problem all over the place. Good to have some discussion about this. I wonder what other countries do about weed registers. I noticed near me the Privet is full of black seeds that the birds are merrily eating, then depositing all over the bushland to make more Privet. I wonder if people in England know what a disaster their plant is in my neck of the woods. Just something to ponder as I walk along the road. Popi |
RE: Environmental Weed Action Network
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- Posted by Popi NSW Aust (My Page) on
Wed, May 18, 05 at 1:29
| Greg You might be interested in a publication called "Weedwatch", a newsletter of the Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management. www.weeds.crc.org.au. I am in a landcare group and we get this publication sent to us, it might be a vehicle for your weed concerns. |
RE: Environmental Weed Action Network
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1) May be many people will ignore them but many probably will read them and perhaps they will spread the word. For the small amount of effort required to create them it can't hurt.
2) I have indeed been trying to get on the 3aw and 774 abc gardening shows to tell people about them and succeeded on a few occasions. Have been emailing gardening australia on channel 2.
3) I can't see that a regional approach to weeds will work Popi - it is to open to interpretation by those who are ignorant or indifferent to the issue. It is an either all or nothing proposition. |
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