Benoit, my friend , a ten month old Crow (Mt Warning Caldera Region) says ".......

This Crow Poem reminds us about our personal responsibility to the beautiful life on this planet, and how we need to reign in our wasteful lifestyles and clean up our waste that we have already left all over the planet.

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2005, 39 (12), pp 4421–4430  Bioaccumulation of Organochlorines in Crows from an Indian Open Waste Dumping Site:  Evidence for Direct Transfer of Dioxin-Like Congeners from the Contaminated Soil

National Toxics Network:

Australia’s National Waste Policy at the Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts . The Draft National Waste Policy Framework – opened for comment on 8 July 2009 & closed on 31 July 2009 with the Department receiving over 60 comments.

The Environment Protection & Heritage Council : The EPHC  addresses “broad national policy issues relating to environmental protection, particularly in regard to air, water, and waste matters“, as well as  natural, Indigenous and historic heritage issues.

National Environment Protection Council : a National outcome of the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Environment (May 1st, 1992) made between the Australian Local Government Association, the Commonwealth of Australia, the six State Governments, the Northern and Australian Capital Territories. The NEPC was incorporated into the above EPHC in 2001.

Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal

Boomerang Alliance :

Gyrating Crow at phansythat.blogspot

Crows : info and photos about the Torresian Crow – an Australian native bird.

There is  plenty of info, on the internet for and about CROWS.

If you want to find out more about my friend, BENOIT, have a look at my “Wisdom in the Land” Bluecray blogspot .

I have known Benoit for over nine months now. He is a wild Crow, and his parents and siblings are also all wild.   He chose come to visit me, when he first flew from his nest, in the Crow’s Ash Tree beside my home.  Gradually, over time, he and I have become “friends” and he will now fly onto my arm, and talk with me. He also likes to sit on my head and yell very loudly!!! He is extremely bright, and his parents have their work cut out for them, in raising him, with his two other siblings, Baba (the elder, very brave crow) and Lucy (the youngest, who everyone loves.!)