THE BIG LAND STEAL

As man greedily turns  green countryside into concrete many thousands of birds and animals around the world are made homeless.

Their natural lives are destroyed by a continual land theft that leaves them disorientated and having to adapt to the boring filth of cities and man made pollution.

Once noble and regal creatures become beggars in city and suburban streets. Humans regard them as a nuisance, even as vermin. There is little regard for their well being and certainly no regret about stealing their homes and land.

Many walk on city streets and frequent garbage tips because their homelands are now covered by housing estates - millions of concrete boxes housing human animals, watching TV and playing with their techno toys.

As woodlands and forests are torn down to make way for more concrete boxes more and more animals and birds lose their  homes and food source.  Confused, they fight to adapt - creatures like birds, koalas, bears, deer, foxes, rabbits, squirrels- the list is long.

In poisoned oceans, lakes, rivers and streams throughout the world fish and other sea creatures like dolphins and turtles choke on plastic and man-made pollution.

Governments give developers permission to build without any proper and full study of the affects on wildlife and the environment. Politicians babble about progress, jobs and economic expansion without proper regard for wildlife or environment.  Money and financial profit dominates men's thinking and there is general disregard for Mother Nature and other life.

I believe governments need to widen their vision before allowing new building developments. We should not assume we and our material needs are more important than the lives of our fellow creatures or the environment. It will lead to disaster.

Progress often means greed and money making and so called progress often lacks vision for the future.  What of the birds and animals? Are we simply to call them a nuisance? Vermin? Exterminate them? To do so would make us a monster species.

We need to make wildlife and the environment a major priority when considering building development. If a project will badly affect wildlife and the environment it must be stopped.

If we don't act now the only life in this world will be humans packed into billions of little concrete boxes all across the planet. Animal life will be something they watch on their TVs and computers.

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