It takes about seven years for this species of cicada to change from a tiny egg to adult form. It takes about 15 days for the adults of this species to mate, lay eggs and die... The cycle of its life is tenuous. Not only the cicadas have natural enemies such as cicada-eating wasps, they can be affected by our toxic wastes underground, insecticide in the air or our decimation of trees. Some cicada species cycle is more than 17 years... a lot can go wrong, including human making changes to the surface, such as creating habitation and roads in what used to be bushland during that time...

The symbol e is that which I have created to represent Organica Spiritualia. This is to relate our "spiritual being" to nature. In fact it is our human intelligence (reactive animalistic processing of environmental factors for survival into stylistical actions) that creates our "spirtual being". Our consciousness is organic, based on our memory. Most animals that have a central memorising system of environmental factors can have a consciousness of space and position.

Our individual memory is greater than that of individuals in others species and gives us the ability to invent a lot of solutions, including fake solutions that solve "problems" nonetheless... But beyond these fake solutions, including ethical solutions, there are relationship between our generosity and species that do not really matter to our survival.

Organica spiritualia gives us the power to be generous to nature beyond our needs. But our needs are bathed more and more in greed, another Organica Spiritualia activity with less ethical understanding of where we are at at this point in time — an evolved being from a soup of life on a planet to which we could decide we owe nothing to.

The relationships between human survival and that of other species is often not as important as we could think... But this relationship is more important than our needs, because at this point in time we have evolved to be where we are — together on the planet. It's an ethical choice in which our judgement (or carelessness) of life or death over other species may alter the course of our future history or not... It is a stylistic choice. Extinction of species resulting from our activities is our stylist choice. We can and should choose different and care better.

extinction of species is forever.

For nearly three decades, Tasmania's ancient eucalypt forests have been the scene of pitched battles between environmentalists and loggers. Now, in a stunning volte-face, the forestry industry has called a truce, announcing that it will stop clearing old-growth native trees altogether.

The warring parties yesterday announced a "peace deal" that will see logging end virtually immediately in the most pristine forests, and over time, in all other native forests. It follows five months of secret talks between green groups, trade unions and the forestry industry.

The agreement marks a watershed for Tasmania, where sometimes violent clashes between activists and forestry workers have been part of the rhythm of life since the mid-1980s. There are also predictions that it will lead to old-growth logging being phased out elsewhere in Australia.

The island state, where the world's first Green party was founded in 1972, is regarded as the birthplace of the global environmental movement. It has been the scene of high-profile conservation battles, including an ultimately successful campaign in 1982 to prevent the Franklin River being flooded by a hydro-electric dam.

For a generation, logging at the 400-year-old forests in Tasmania – home to some of the world's tallest trees, including the 101-metre-high Centurion, a giant swamp gum second only to a 115-metre-high Californian redwood – has been a running sore. It is estimated that tens of thousands of hectares have been cleared over the past 25 years, with most of the timber exported as woodchips.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/tasmanias-forests-saved-after-30-years-of-fighting-2111276.html

Gus: if someone can identify this moth, that would be cool... I have searched through many scientific works to no avail. It could be as common as weed but I can't place it... One of its major feature is the way the moth holds its wings at rest. A bit like a stealth bomber. Two short horizontal wings and two near vertical ones. Let me know.

Meanwhile I challenge any media organisation, including the ABC, to place, till the end of the year, a small advert (10 seconds for TV — 150 x 80 mm for press) at least once a day or in every edition, warming about the loss of bio-diversity on the planet and our responsibility to do something about it. That would go a long way to let the problem be known. At present there are people in some countries who think biodiversity is some kind of detergent or washing powder. We need the main stream media to be far less lethargic on this subject...

Why do we ignore behaviour that not only sends plants and animals to extinction but, ultimately, condemns humanity to life in a wasted world, asks Robert Hollingworth.

IN AUGUST, Radio National airedthe last in the series Animal People, which discussed the plight of many mammals facing extinction.

Presenter Sarah L’Estrangeaddressed American authorElizabeth Kolbert:

“There are only 250 lions left in West Africa, but this doesn’t change your day-to-day life. So what do you lose when animals become extinct?”

For anyone, this is a difficult question and Kolbert seemed to have some trouble with it.

Her lengthy reply concluded:

“It is devastating if we lose these creatures. Personally, I don’t want to live in a world that doesn’t have tigers…”

We know what she means, but do her words adequately explain why we want to save individual species?

read more: http://www.independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/ending-our-criminal-ways,6979

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