Rabbit Proof

The three big injustices done to these people were:

1. While out searching for food in their usual hunting grounds the natives realize their land no longer belongs to them.""When we climbed over the fence , one of those men pointed one of those things-guns-at us and threatened to shoot us if we went in there again"" (14)
This was said my one of the native tribe members who was angered by being held back from hunting. I believe this is a violation of the "right to own property" because all of the natives lands were taken out from under them without consent. These people are not allowed to be on the land that they once had to themselves and are confines to wherever the Europeans want them to be.

2. Because the natives decided to strike out and steal a couple sheep from the white man because they wouldn't share, "they received several years imprisonment and were transported to Rottnest Island Penal Colony... They were never seen again." (14)
I believe that this is a direct violation of the "freedom from arbitrary arrest and exile". These men were both arrested and sent away from taking a couple sheep because they could not find any food elsewhere on the land. This tiny punishment was found unacceptable to the white people because they believed the natives were savages and had to sent the tone with stealing away people, to send a message.

3. ""Yet when old man Udja complained to the magistrate that a white man stole his wife, Nella, he was given a bag of white rice and flour and told to go home. That old man expected the same form of justice under the white man's law. He never got it."" (15)
Just because these people are from another race means that they could not be given the same rules as the white man, they were treated stricter and more brutally than any European on this island. This rule is in obstruction of the "equality before the law" declaration.

Only in America:

Just like in Australia the Europeans forced Native American tribes farther and farther out of their lands until they were cornered and too weakened to fight back. They brought down their populations with diseases, starvation, and war with better weapons. Because of the huge difference in ratio the Native American tribes had no chance and were only left tiny squares of land to live on, the least fertile and worst climate squares. Another coincidence is that the white men tired to take out Indian children to educate them in European schools and teaching them European ways. By converting them they thought that it would persuade the future generations of Indians to willingly give up their lands and join the European race.

Relocate the Children:
The European government thought that their race was superior to all others which made them believe that they had to convert and change any others that stood in their path. Even though they were not threatened or harassed the white men needed to change these other races because they wanted one educated and European race. I do not believe that the government was justified in doing this though because they ripped apart homes and families for their own selfish beliefs. They didn't stop to think about how they were affecting other communities because they don't care about these other families.

Invaders!

A little backround:

These creatures are not native to the Australia country at all, they naturally derive from North, Central, and South America.

Why they are here:

The toad was origionally introduced to Australia in the 1930's in order to kill off and control different types of pests that were going after sugar cane plants, that included rats and cane beetles.

Problems:
Cane toads are so problematic because of the bufogenin poison it excretes. This poison cannot be tolerated by other animals that have not adapted to eat these toads. All possible predators are killed off by these toads and do not have a chance to attack. These poisons are killing off species all over the continent and now moving into the sea waters where many more are in danger.

Solutions:

One way of helping to solve the problem was to help train different marsupials and mammals, like the quolls, in a taste test. To help these animals not be attracted to Cane toads they set up nauseasting tastes and smells to be associated with the toad. Thus making the animals not attracted just based on instinct.

In America:

The Cuban Tree Frog was introduced by travel and trade of different plants between Cental America and North America. These frogs are seen to be cempeting with native Floridian frogs for survival and are winning. In lab tests it was shown that given the choice between insects (more commonly preffered) and native species of other frogs, they attacked the natives.

Solutions:

There is not a huge danger in them multipling and moving upwards because of the climate so they are contained more towards swampy florida, but they are trying to keep their predators, snakes and owls, protected and healthy in order to keep the alien species down.

Blog #1

1. The Great Barrier Reef is considered the "largest living thing on earth"
2. Coral takes the calcium carbonate from the water to make tentacles.
3. Red algae acts like glue to keep the shells and sand together with the calcium carbonate.
4. The Great Barrier Reef became a national park in 1975.
5. Only about 33% of the Reef is protected from fishing.
6. Scientists believe that the ancient reef is about half a million years old but the current reef is only about 20,000.