Species Loss On The Mornington Peninsula
In the 1850s, the highly-regarded explorers and naturalists, Wheelwright and Hobson, when describing the Mornington Peninsula wrote :
"The Peninsula was thick with wildlife, with herds of kangaroos, wombats, wallabies, many echidnas and koalas and glorious birds, all unused to man and quite tame and inquisitive. He described the wonderful trees and abundance of silver wattles which, when in blossom, made the whole country golden and the whole atmosphere filled deliciously with their sweetness".
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Palm Oil Plantations, How Sustainable Are They?
You probably already know that one of the biggest threats to endangered wildlife is actually habitat loss, but I don't know if you've heard that at the moment so much habitat is being lost to palm oil plantations. Palm oil trees grow in tropical climates, where the kernels are harvested and the oil extracted from these is sent around the world. As you can see from this image, an incredible amount of habitat is being lost people growing palm oil, which means there is so much wildlife and biodiversity being lost to palm oil plantations, with the most famous of these being the orang-utan.
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