Carly’s road to recovery
Carly Crane and her family would like to extend their sincere thanks and appreciation to all the people who supported the fundraiser for Carly’s road to recovery at the Rusty Plough last weekend.
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The amount of support and energy that was evident at the auction was overwhelming.
All the money raised will help Carly to get through months of unemployment and ongoing treatment for her injuries.
Carly will have ongoing visits to the Concord hospital in Sydney for the management of her injury and the scarring that she will suffer as a result of the burns.
Not only is there treatment for the burns, but Carly will have ongoing physio treatment as well as lengthy counselling programs.
The money raised will help to make a real difference for Carly to continue moving forward after this event in a positive way.
As a family we would personally like to thank each and every one of you who supported the cause, but this was too difficult.
There were people and businesses who donated towards the auction and there were people who supported the auction by purchasing items, people and businesses that supported the day (auctioneer, music, barbecue, donuts, etc) and then there were people who just donated. A very heartfelt thank you to you all.
Not to go without a special mention, we would especially like to thank Joyanne McGovern and family, Lisa Crane and Leanne for all the work they put in to organise the event. Your kindness is very valued.
Such events and kindness are a true testament of what a wonderful community we live in. Thank you.
Carly Crane, Merv Crane, Tanja Vogt, Kyran Crane and Cody Crane
Humans are responsible
The following letter is prompted by the recent articles seen in both The Magnet and the Bega District News, August 25 and 26.
A hundred years ago, the Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat was found in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.
Now it is one of the rarest mammals in the world, rarer than pandas, and only one small population remains.
What has caused this drastic decline? Humans.
The wombat lived in arid areas. Wombats can live on very little food. But white people brought cattle and sheep which ate the grasses which had fed the wombats in these dry areas.
The cattle and sheep also trampled in the burrows, trapping the wombats underground where they died slowly of starvation.
White people have also allowed their dogs to go wild and they kill wombats, especially young ones.
In the 1970s the number of Northern Hairy-nosed Wombats had dropped to between 60 and 70 individuals.
Now cattle and sheep have been fenced out of Epping Forest, the last place where they survive.
They breed very slowly. Their numbers are very slowly rising; there may now be 170 individuals.
Our local ones are Bare-nosed Wombats. The area in Australia which they inhabit has also shrunk drastically. Again it is humans who are the cause.
Many are killed on the roads. Others are shot by farmers. Many farmers do not realise that it is the clearing of stable river banks with large machines leaving the soil disturbed and loose which leads to massive erosion and loss of topsoil.
If cattle are then allowed access to water courses, the banks are then trampled and the problem increases. Water courses which are left with native shrubbery do not become degraded, no matter how many wombat burrows there are.
Our wonderful wombats deserve to be understood and cared for, while we still have them.
Threatened Species Week is on at Potoroo Palace, September 5-11.