I was reading this story today about the Superb Parrot titled “Parrot ‘putting hundreds of jobs at risk’, whose species is listed as a vulnerable species.  This parrot lives in the river red gums in the Murray Darling Basin and the hollows of the Red Gum are its only nesting site.  I am not normally a ‘tree hugging greenie’ but in this instance I feel I must say something in defence of the parrot.

The commercial media was all over this story like a rash.  All one sided of course.  Not one outlet saw it from the poor old parrots point of view.

The title of the main stream media kind of went like this;

• Garret a ‘warbling twit’ over parrot
• Green leek parrot endangers 1000 jobs in NSW
• Rare parrot to kill of 1000 Australian jobs
• Parrot threatens 1,000 timber industry jobs in NSW
• Parrot puts 1000 jobs at risk

Guess what.  It is not the bloody parrots fault!  They were there first!  I am here to tell you that I support the parrots point of view.  Where do humans get off at worrying about their freaking jobs, when a species of parrot’s existence is hanging on a thread?  What gives us the audacity to believe that we are more important than this beautiful bird, who’s only crime is to enjoy nesting in River Red Gum trees, that humans convert to woodchips that are exported to Japan, or the latest designer coffee table or furniture for the nuevo chic.  I hope that humans can live with the blood of the extinction of yet another species on their already stained hands.

Don’t the other inhabitants of our wonderful planet deserve a place to live besides the so call intelligent bipedal descendant of the apes (I use the term intelligent loosely)? 

I understand that a community’s livelihood is at stake, but who let them continue this unsustainable practice for so long anyway?  Was it the promise of Profits vs. the Planet?  So when the last River Red Gum is felled, who is the timber industry going to blame then?  The wombat or the Grey Kangaroo?  Get real!

Taking the humans side for just one second, what happened to all of these so called ‘Green Collar’ jobs that our government has promised us?  These would certainly offset any job losses when the timber industry is forced with a reality check by governments.

I will leave the verdict of whether I am over the top to those of you who decide to leave a comment.  I believe the parrot’s existence is far more important than 1000 Australian jobs.  Selfish arseholes!