The article is also important for identifying the inability of governments who understand how precious the strange and ancient landscape can be, are also the people who refuse to let people to truly embrace the heritage in our bush.
The Wollemi Pine is an heirloom from the age of dinosaurs, but this does not mean it can not be a part of our future. Why is there such great reluctance to engage with nature and allow people to propagate and grow these amazing plants on their farms and in their backyards. Just as their is a reluctance to allow people to keep native marsupials as pets in an age when feral cats, dogs, pigs, horses and camels are destroying important species and entire ecological systems.
Short sighted they choose to be and short sighted they shall stay, and our children and the rest of the world shall continue to miss out on the pleasure and privelege of living in a diverse and fasinating land of continuously missed opportunities.
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