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Watch Out! Wildlife is Vanishing While Our Children Play …

Nature Watch second release June 2010
Posted by Earthwatch in Education on 29 Jun 2010 at 04:36 am

For years now, political and social commentators have bemoaned the TV and computer game culture that has seen children playing in the park replaced with playing the playstation or X-box. Fears of neighborhood predators, increasing “cotton wool” parenting, and child obesity appear to have gone hand in hand with the ever-present and increasing availability of technological-based entertainment, be it the iPad or 3D television. But could this diet of indoor entertainment take an even more crucial toll: a toll on our native wildlife? Steve Parish, award-winning photographer and natural history publisher, certainly believes so. “Australia has one of the worst extinction records in the world,” says Parish, “and unless our kids are out there interacting with nature and connecting with it, I don’t think they’ll realise just what they’re potentially missing … in some cases, for good. I think its great that they’re now able to watch documentaries and get involved online or read on the iPad, but nothing compares being outdoors and actually seeing an animal, endangered or otherwise, in the wild. It’s the best way to identify with our fauna, and we all know that when we identify with things, we want to protect them.” Steve is no slouch at protecting animals. A long time conservationist...
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