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About the Society
National President, Patrick Medway AM
Throughout his career Patrick has maintained a keen interest in wildlife preservation and conservation.
He was made a Life Member of the Wildlife Preservation Society in 1985 and served as Secretary and Executive Director of the Society since 1995. He is actively involved in a number of conservation, zoological, botanical and educational associations across Australia.
He was appointed to the State Councillor for the NSW Nature Conservation Council in 1995, is a member of the NSW Pest Animal Control Council. Patrick is the current Chairman of the Towra Point Steering Committee and President of the ‘Friends of Towra Point Nature Reserve’ and the Illawarra Zoological Society Inc.
His current ambition is to establish a National Headquarters for the Society in the Rockdale Wetland Corridor. The proposed new Centre will be a Wetland Environmental Education Centre called SYDNEY ECOWORLD GARDENS.
Patrick was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day 2003 Honors for his 'Service to conservation and the environmental through environmental education and a range of organizations and committees concerned with the preservation of wildlife and nature, particularly the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia'.
Green commandments for a better world
The Green Commandments for sustainable development of our Planet are:
1. All people have a right to an Earth where they can live in good health and enjoy a fair quality of life.
2. No one has the right to substantially alter the natural world in a way that will damage the world’s basic resources.
3. All people must conserve the present diversity of the natural world. Extinction is forever.
4. All people must plan their future so the resources they use will be sustainable – and when they use non-sustainable materials, plan for a future when these will be exhausted.
5. All people giving aid to others must be sure the help will increase the quality of life of those they assist, not forcing them into new ways of living, destroying their culture.
6. All people must use the world’s common resources with regard to all other people, both now and in the future.
7. All nations must carry out their obligations under all environmental agreements. A world court should decide on serious breaches, while other pressures such as boycotts must be used when more suitable for the occasion.
8. All nations must co-operate, not only in monitoring their own environment, but also in their obligations to the rest of the world.
9. All nations must develop a sustainable population policy and adhere to it.
10. All nations and all individuals must develop a new morality, not based only on particular religions but with values of respect for the rights of all humans and also those of the natural environment.
FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact our Office on:
Tel: 02 9556 1537 • International: +61 2 9556 1537
Fax: 02 9599 0000 • International: +61 2 9599 0000
Email: wildlifepreservation@optusnet.com.au
Post: PO Box 42, BRIGHTON LE SANDS, NSW, 2216, Australia |
