Save Ningaloo Reef, West-Australia

[Katrien Vandevelde]

Dear diving and nature lovers,

I am writing you because I need your help for an important matter that lies very close to my heart.

A few years ago, I went on a holiday to one of the most beautiful and still pristine places on the globe.

Ningaloo reef in West-Australia is a refuge for whales, whale-sharks, manta-rays, endangered dugongs (manatee's), endangered turtles and numerous tropical fish.

It is also one of the last places on earth where the coral reef is still healthy.

Now the Australian government wants to build a huge holiday complex with a very large marina, smack in the middle of this marine paradise.

Needless to say that this initiative will irriversably destroy the environment for the marine life.

Please surf to the link mentioned below. You can watch the 5 minutes movie about the Ningaloo reef and then please sign the automated letter to the prime minister and prevent the realisation of this holiday complex.

All you have to do is add your name and email-address, filling in the other boxes or writing down your own comments is optional.

I also want to ensure you that you will not get spammed! This is a genuine rescue mission, not a sleazy way of getting email-information.

http://www.save-ningaloo.org/ I thank you very very much for your help!

Katrien Vandevelde - Jan Wouters, Leuvensebaan 181 , 3220 Holsbeek , Belgium, Europe

[Katrien Vandevelde]

The West-Australian Premier has rejected the proposal for a mega-holiday resort at Ningaloo reef. He will now even start a procedure to put the whole area on the world heritage listing.
Lots of thanks again to everyone who supported the campagne!

You can also read it at:
www. save-ningaloo.org
or
www.thewest.com.au/20030704/news/latest/tw-news-latest-home-sto103861.html

[Kate]

I live in Perth,WA and have recently been to Coarl Bay and experianced the wonders of Ningaloo Reef .I know how important it is to keep it safe and will fight against the development of a hotel. The reef has aready been destroied by humans enough!

[Graeme Birch]

As a regular visitor to the ningaloo reef for many years and hopefully for many more, i send my plea to not only stop just a resort from destroying the reef, but to also to stop anything else from ruining the beutiful area such as professional fishing ( netting commercially ) and other thing like that that have destroyed other areas. Ningaloo is a beutiful place and should be treasured and kept safe by everyone.

[Tucky]

I have been enjoying the reef for 168 years of my life now and must say that it is the most peacefull place on earth. The salt water is good for my bones and hemeroids. I dont want this parradise to become another wasted natural reasorse for tourists to trash and ruin. Please do somthing, my time is near so you youngsters have to save the reef, save the reef, save the reef , cough cough

[Graeme Birch]

dear tucky, i am intrigued by your moving and, thoroughly bewildering word in the letter to the editor. i must say you are a very old bitty but if you still have time to write letters in well good for you. your words are truly inspiring and should be heard by the whole world. i just hope you are not playing around and are really just some punk 16 year old going to ag school and daves place on weekends for nookie. only a hypothetical comment but i beleive you are genuine and your cause is good. my hat goes off to you.(if i had it on in the first place).

[Tucky]

Well id just like to say to this young birch whippersnapper that to mock me and my authority is not only wrong but highly dangerous (evil laugh muhahaha). But as my sight isnt what it used to be and seeing as the reply letter wasnt in size 52 font, ill let this one slide and i dont understand what you mean by 'nookie. kids today and there black slang, i dont know!. Now i have to go as its time for my weekly boil treatment and these ones are dozies.Remember kiddies save the reef, save the reef...sluring noise in back of throat..

[youngj]

i think that your e-mail message in regards to saving ningaloo reef is a great way to convince the reader that the ningaloo reef is a precious site and should be kept in good condition. The save ningaloo organisation has been working long and hard for the corporate pigs to stop the construction on the reef. The people that were designing to build the resort,...all they wanted was money...which they need more of? i dont think so.

Keep up the good work on saving this precious flora and fauna habitat.

from james 14...greenwood senior high school