Why should I worry about whether wildife becomes extinct?
A. Because we can’t survive ourselves without wildlife. Birds and bats kepp insect levels down, polinate plants in the forests, and have symbiotic relationships with other plant and animal species. On a mountain in Shoalwater Bay, ( and in a few other places) every few years when the weather is right, a tiny golden ground orchid flowers. It’s polinated by a wasp, because the flower smells like female wasp, and the male attempts to mate with the flower. We know a bit about the orchid, but we know nothing about the wasp. If we lose the wasp, we lose the orchid. Then we can lose the small marsupials that browse on the orchid tubers. That impacts on the predator birds and animals who prey on the small marsupials. It’s like a chain when you remove a link….everything unravels.
