It’s hard not to be discouraged about the state of our global environment, isn’t it?
Like you, Save Our Woodlands volunteers have times when we are about ready to give up hope – when we wonder if any one is paying attention or cares.
Thankfully between us, there is always at least one volunteer – not always the same one – who is ready to help us pull up our bootstraps and remind us to just get on with it.
Having said all that, we find great joy in any glimmer of hope that we are not alone, that other Australians are paying attention and care.
Please join us in this fight to preserve the woodlands of New South Wales.
Okay, okay, we know, we know…
The majority of this article is about New York, USA and the results of smoke from unprecedented wildfires in Canada – so you may be asking – what does that have to do with an organisation saving woodlands in New South Wales, Australia?
We see a glimmer of hope in this article. Hope that not only are Australians waking up – but that the rest of the world hopefully is too.
From THE GUARDIAN, JUNE 10, 2023
New York therapists see a surge in eco-anxiety as smoke fills skies: ‘Every client addresses it’.
As Kim Saira scrolled through TikToks showing a curtain of yellow smoke descending over New York, she felt a panic attack coming on. Though she lives an entire coast away from the crisis, Saira began to fear for her parents, who are essential workers in Queens.
“I had to completely turn off my phone, because I was getting so anxious,” said Saira, a Los Angeles-based healing coach. “My chest hurt, I felt like I couldn’t sit still, and I started pacing around. I couldn’t do any work.”
Any fears New Yorkers may have felt about the unfurling climate crisis kicked into overdrive this week, after smoke caused by Canada’s devastating wildfires broke US records for bad air quality. The urban dystopia stoked an existential stress that therapists call “eco-anxiety”.
Further down the opinion piece goes on to state:
A few years ago, most of the people who utilized climate therapists fit a certain stereotype: they were young and they were activists or people who felt a strong connection to the natural world. Now, Jornsay-Silverberg said, there’s no “type” of client.
There are grandparents trying to cope with the world their grandchildren will inherit, and parents struggling to find ways to talk to their children about it. “Some people are just burned out from work that they once loved, because they’re overwhelmed with the state of the world, and it’s impossible for them to find joy,” Jornsay-Silverberg- said.
Here at Save Our Woodlands we are doing everything in our power, personally and as an organisation. We are being as environmentally friendly as possible in our own homes – along with raising awareness, lobbying and raising funds to protect woodlands that are rapidly disappearing. We hope that articles like this will serve to enlighten others and…
That YOU will join us in sharing and educating those who maybe don’t yet realise what is happening – and that if we don’t lock arms and do something – and now – things are going to get even worse.
Save our Woodlands was established to protect and expand the remaining 15% of NSW, Australia’s woodlands. These woodlands are critical habitats for many vulnerable, threatened and endangered species.
YOU can help us prevent even more of our precious woodlands from being cleared for development, to instead be protected as a sanctuary for woodland species.
YOU can also help us rid NSW woodlands of the invasive weeds that are choking out native plants required by endangered species.
YOU can help us provide “pathways”, and access routes for firefighters so that we don’t lose any more NSW woodlands to bushfires.
We do NOT want a repeat performance of the Black Summer Bushfires of 2019/2020.
Here’s another article – one from the BBC with an overview of a survey conducted with 10,000 young people.
Save Our Woodlands is an environmentally conscious group of volunteers dedicated to preserving threatened birds, animals and ecosystems in the woodlands of New South Wales, Australia.
Only 15% of our woodlands remain, the rest has been cleared for agriculture.
Save Our Woodlands Inc. secures and protects woodlands in NSW and pays landholders, in perpetuity, to conserve, enhance and re-establish native woodlands on THEIR land, and to manage these woodlands, so they are maintained.
BUT we need YOUR help. Together we can bring about change. Please consider donating.
People tend to think that woodlands are “just bush,” consequently, over 85% of the native woodlands in New South Wales, Australia have been replaced by agriculture.
Donate $10 per month & help protect critical habitats. By doing so YOU will prevent further species from extinction.
Our work is only possible with your support.
