NOTE TO SELF: get to the point!
So guess who just realised the there is a right and a wrong place to compose a blog! Yup, this place has font size and colour options - definitely something these posts need to break that mundane look I've been going for.

The point: Searching for inspiration. Been trying to get in touch with a DOC source from Owaka about Operation Ark and was lucky enough to find someone else at the Dunedin office. It even links to short-tailed bats! But hey, what about 'em long-tailed ones eh? Or that oh so important link with global climate change, asynchronous hatching of insects with plant cycles and the loss of the bats' food source? And with the loss of bats comes the loss of pollination for certain rare plant species... Talk about total collapse!

Reflection: I have realised that most other people are shocked to hear how far from the truth the whole idealistic view of the doco world is getting each year (see my first blog - if you can be bothered). It makes me want to delve into Rod Morris' story of a blue chip doco maker and conservationist living in a short, high impact, American market doco world. He's what I would regard, in a sense, as New Zealand's Attenborough.

Keeping in short...