Thread by @EarthSymbol

1/Thinking of #trees #peat #carbon and #nature and #fires. When are Victorians (without hysterics @theage ) to be made fully aware of the State #auslaws over fines in State Parks for picking up a rock, walking off track and so on. @DanielAndrewsMP/2

2/As it is now there are hundreds of shooting licensed people walking off track. Hundreds of thousands of feral deer, xrabbits,x pigs (latter two a food, anti #poverty source that cannot be culled by shooters) already damaging #native wildlife.Protecting #Indigenous locations/3

3/ @DanielAndrewsMP is key but to lock up (by fines) large areas is #segregation and discrimination. To lock up but then ok if you pay — is a cynical misuse of power. It would be good to hear from #Indigenous Victoria as we already know the value of the birthing trees was/4

4/ dismissed by #springst as folly. So why the, segregation now? The fear mongering to small children who can no longer (if this legislation goes through) be allowed to sooth their spirit in a State Park without fear of stepping off a path. Go swimming without registration/5

5/ Take groups of friends on a low cost holiday. Reduce personal #depression or #mentalhealth issues due to ‘Park Anxiety’. To what ends are these laws @AdamBandt @DanielAndrewsMP? To lock down Parks, protect Indigenous sites (all Victoria). Pretending #nature will just/6

6/be nice if we mark a trail,don’t pick up a rock.
Or is this abt #segregation?
Of course you can get a permit.Just imagine Saturday morning☀️day.Mum & Dad say, let’s go to the bush for a swim kids. “Wait on,how many of your friends”,I’ll get a permit while you pack. #Springst/7

7/ Imagine #Victoria if u want to see wild #orchids in #Mallacoota area #EastGippsland which requires walking off track. Oops💰not allowed. But with a permit?😃Has anyone @AdamBandt @DanielAndrewsMP actually spent time in the Bush? There seem to be two issues/8 #springst #auspol

8/Admirable protection of #Indigenous #Spirituality (a version of St Patrick’s and #historical #Melbourne but in various situ. throughout the State. Secondly the protection of #ecosystems. But on the latter, just as in #NSW Kosciusko is disregard for nature via State Government/9

9/backed #forestry (#Springst) & above ground power network (#NSW).

A failure of commonsense over #Wildfire and #Climate risk due to ignorance of #soil integrity against #natural #disaster (Vic) and ignoring #risk of above ground lines (NSW)ie #BlackSaturday 2009. #9News /10

10/ Nature is living breathing monolith. Both Victoria and NSW have nature opposing polices of protection. So lock up some places — or get a permit. But clear fell log (Vic) or build #bushfire lightning rods (NSW)?
Lock up all State parks bar tracks…😀 #Springst
#auspol? /11

11/ Then once members of public are where they are supposed to be by permits that’s it? Just leave the bushland #ecosystems be? So if current practices continue when there are raging #bushfires outside #Melbourne and #Canberra and people cannot breathe? A #PublicHealth issue/12

12/ #Springst #nswpol, #climate mitigation, #GlobalGoals. All these terms mean nothing if State players ignore basic understanding of a #watercycle #soils, #risk via #energy (powerlines) and add #Indigenous & general public segregation. Who is regulating the regulators? @guardian

*State Government backed.

*go swimming in large groups without registration.