Nature's Treasures Endangered!
A gang here was watching my approach at the wetland!
Just a short morning walk here at a stream that flows behind a shopping center in the town of Somerset West in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
The question today that we have to ask ourselves is if our children and their children will be able to see this in the future?
Or will it all simply die out?
A bird got this little guy and dropped him next to the stream!
He was dead and so I placed him on a flower!
I think that this Sacred Ibis had something to do with it!
Then it was back home and I got this visitor on a rock in our garden!
Little Squirry was waiting for a nut that she knows I keep in my pocket!
MR. Squirry was also waiting and he dined on the tree upside down!
This lady arrives every afternoon for a bath after a long day on her nest. The bird bath is a bit small for her and we are looking at getting a bigger one, especially as there will be babies around soon!
Of course the breeding pair of Rock Pigeons also visit the bath every day!
Just a little beauty here for you!
Baby Robin and a Cape Sparrow discussing the worm issues!
Soon the late sun colored the clouds!
And finally a shy moon hid away behind the trees!
And That's All Folk's!
It is general knowledge that our world is in trouble. Severe trouble, as wetlands are converted into townships and farming fields. Many animal and insect species are becoming endangered. But do we care? No! Progress is the cursed name of mankind used to destroy all that they see.
Wetlands are the lungs of nature and they should be protected at all costs. We are already in trouble and fears are evident that we have already gone too far on our merry ways of destruction. Mining licenses are now being handed out here in protected nature areas! Anything for money!
Thankfully the communities are standing up and recently a mining license was withdrawn in the high court because of a protected area. It's a start and we should all get onto the bandwagon to stop this madness.
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Wow. Those are some beautiful images of rare moments.
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Thank you kindly!
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It is so upsetting to watch the destruction going on around us, shout from the highest hilltop on deaf ears, where money is to be made man carries on regardless Stephen.
Poor little land crab did not make it, pity whatever bird picked it up did not enjoy it's snack.
Have a wonderful day and we have our rain back again, hope some is falling in regions for dams to swell a bit, over population and water have become another bad omen on the horizon.
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It seems that there a bad omens nowadays all over the place Lady Joan.
Erecting shopping centers and housing units on clay in the wetlands is such a silly idea. We have seen it before up north and after a year most of the walls are cracking because clay moves.
In the meantime they keep on destroying nature.
We are very uptight about it and something has got to give here!
Glad to hear about your rain and if it can creep up to the Karoo and other areas it will be indeed a great blessing.
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Still struggling with your comments my friend.
No replies to one word comments!
I say again - I cannot understand how people do not believe in God if they look at nature and secondly I do not understand that it does not bother some people to just destroy.
Money is their god my friend.
They will get their rewards here on this earth!
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