FLAMINGO COLONY UNDER THREAT July 4, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in News.trackback
Kimberley in South Africa is best known for the “Big Hole” where thousands of miners dug a huge hole whilst mining for diamonds. This town was also where the American singer the late Jim Reeves starred in a movie called Kimberley Jim.
What many people do not know is that there is a wonderful new attraction just on the outskirts of Kimberley on Kamfers Dam i.e. flamingos.
Two brothers who owns a mining company called Ekapa Mining heard about the plight of the Lesser Flamingo. They used their own finance and resources to build an island in the middle of Kamfers Dam in an S-shape to attract the flamingos in order to establish a safe breeding place for them. This venture worked wonderfully and the flamingos loved the pristine environment and up to 60000 came to breed there and 9000 chicks where born.
Now due to GREED this habitat is in peril and we need every-ones help to save it from being destroyed. The mismanagement of the municipality of Kimberley has allowed raw sewage to overflow into the Kamfers Dam causing some of the flamingos legs to have sores on them.
Secondly, although this site is declared a National Heritage site, the mayor of Kimberley and his team have agreed to re-zone part of the area to allow a huge development by Group One to be built. This permission was granted without an impact study being done about the effect it will have on the flamingos or input being asked for from the conservationists or the people of Kimberley.
Please go to the following website and sign the petition so that we can stop the development and force the municipality to sort out the sewage problem:
http://www.savetheflamingo.co.za/index.php
Please share this story with as many people as you can and I ask all my entrecard readers to help us by carrying a link of this on their blogs!
Thanks to each and everyone who responds to this call for help.
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Make way for big business. Money will get you what you want anytime, well enough of it. It doesn’t seem to matter to them, they will not be here when it is all destroyed.