Koalas and Australian wildlife - an obstacle to human expansion

"The Gold Coast property had been home to a thriving population of koalas and kangaroos but with the nation’s human population continuing to surge they’ve been displaced for new homes...Rescuer 'exhausted' as development destroys Australia's wildlife. Over the last two days, all I've done is [attended to] animals displaced or killed from development, and killed on roads."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/photo-shows-tradies-confronting-find-in-housing-site-pit-such-a-waste-071545379.html

Western Sydney, human expansion and wildlife extinction
"Over to the southwest where large developments are underway, and roads are being widened, endangered koalas are dying at a rate that has experts worried. On Appin Road alone, 40 koalas have been killed in the last two years."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/residents-fret-over-deadly-discovery-in-new-aussie-suburb-their-faces-went-pale-023559639.html
#ecocide #sprawl #roads #cars #NonPlace #BiodiversityCrisis #ExtinctionCrisis #Koalas #wildlife #habitat #bellingen #housing #SettlerSociety #FossilFuels #extinction makers

You crush the lily in my soul

#moving #nonplace

#Bellingen has a #traffic jam problem. The 'CBD' ist stuffed. Shopping is a 'running the gauntlet' experience. No matter how much they will 'straighten the bends and widen country roads', there will be just more and more cars. Removing 'bends' from very steep and winding country roads is eliminating #biodiversity #habitat.
Where will all the cars go from the newly smashed in suburbs? (North Bank Road etc) Working hard to make it a #Nonplace.

From Places to Non-Places
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place

#BellingenShire #BellingenBranding #Pollution #Roads #Livability #TownPlanners #Nonplace #Climate #Liveability #EmbraceCountryPace
Image: Logging truck with forest habitat rushing through the narrow bottleneck of Bellingen CBD

After a long hiatus I've started reworking my website - I've just updated my page for the current work in progress - "St Mary's Gate Roundabout". The painting isn't finished but it's getting there👍

Click here to have a look 👇
https://www.andycropper.art/paintings/p/stmarysroundabout

#art #artist #oilpainting #workinprogress #wip #painting #night #nocturne #Sheffield #liminal #liminalspace #realism #psychogeography #uncanny #urban #mastoart #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastodonArt #nonplace #geniusloci #NewTopographics #newtopography