World Environment Day Expo 270507 Sydney, Dee Why Lagoon, Wildlife & Green biz

1. World Environment Expo, Sydney, Warringah 0507 Note the hot paddock, the monoculture of grass

2. This is the lagoon (Dee Why) right next to it. Some birds scratch the very black soil.More than 60 ducks have died there recently. There are many urban tanks parked all over – for the environment day...

3. The longest queues where for desperate meat eaters, they stood for hours in the sun for burnt meat.

4. Just around the corner, a lonely stall: Stop eating meat! Do the world, the climate, the Earth a favour - but no the hunger for flesh is very big.

5. No this fluffy white thing was not being 'skinned' alive as the other animals. There were many dogs in arms, on laps, in prams and packs of hunting dogs.

6. Now to the wild-life. This nice owl is having a hard time being knocked by cars, poisoned by people's 'gardening' chemicals.

7. This lizard was very patient with people. It seemed used to being the object in a zoo (animal prison)

8. This man is looking after many injured fruit bats. He said that the main cause for their disappearance is habitat destruction. They have no home and no food. Where they used to live, in the rainforest, humans are growing their fruit now. They get shot if they 'steal' some of that food. So they flee to the city and towns and look for juicy fruit there. Urban areas are dangerous places and many get injured. Woundn't it be a good idea to give them portions of cities, to wellcome them to parks and gardens? Give them too a right to exist. “ But can you make them pets?” a dad asked.

9. This is the second most favoured 'pet' after the white fluffy yelping balls. It kills all the little Australian animals: birds, lizards, possums etc. In the day it usually snoozes and gets fed sardines from far-away countries. At night it becomes a tiger in the Australian bush / garden and kills, and kills...

10. Many people lure native birds in the area with sugar water to their houses and balconies. The beautiful parrots and other birds become tame and bang – that house-tiger pounces and tears it to death. If not the birds slowly get sick from the sugar water and die. Some people instead make gardens for birds and other native animals. They do not feed the world to pests.

11. All the dog poo, the sweeping and blowing waste into the stormwater, all to go off, off into the blue ocean. Cheap in the shortrun, but dear for the little ones and all the many living creatures in the ocean.

12. So it is in poor countries, the sub-urbs, all the rubbish, poisons, poo and all is simply flushed into the ocean. Like a big toilet!

13. These are two big pipes directing the unwanted things from where we live directly into the beautiful blue Pacific.

14. In this ocean we love to go swimming Eat fish Like to watch the fish in the aquatic reserve We like to continue doing it... for a long time

15. This is the spot where the whales come by every year They have been travelling here for thousands of years along this path. Some are very hungry, some get eaten by humans, some 'get in the way' of big busy ships.