“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.”

Castle Rock Conservancy has just been informed by the Department of Environmental Affairs that our proposal for funding to continue the eradication of invasive aliens on one of the city’s remaining parcels of undeveloped private land has been denied. Evidently we failed a “technical evaluation”.

Well this is what they deem inadequate:

Transforming this mess

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

into a haven of biodiversity such as this

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But you can be sure that with or without their support we will keep up the fight. Wouldn’t you if you knew you could make such a difference and when in your heart of hearts you knew that, for the most part, bureaucracies are the epoxy that (blue) gum up the wheels of progress?

We are on a journey that will only end when the last square metre of Castle Rock Conservancy is cleared of invasive aliens. Until then we will try to get our procedures right so that the Dept of Environmental Affairs and other bureaucracies can find it possible to contribute to the outcome.

By the way there is nothing fake about these photos.Both were taken this week at BlueGumsFree. You can come to Castle Rock any time and compare the 6 or so hectares we have cleared and now look more or less like the bottom photo, with the 25 or so that we still have to tackle and look more or less like the top photo.