Powerful Owl Social Media Campaign - The Guardian Australia's Bird of the Year 2017

The Guardian's bird of the year competition 2017 is an opportunity to highlight the plight of the Powerful owl. 

With the recent news about automated voting for the Powerful owl, I'm guessing there was a bit of hactivism going on by people who really care about this bird. 

Ref: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2017/nov/20/australian-bird-of-the-year-2017-vote-for-your-favourite (see info right at the end).
   

Powerful owl picture sourced from http://www.eastgippsland.net.au/gallery/birds-of-east-gippsland

What can we do with a 6 day social media campaign?    

The ibis, aka the bin chook, will get another opportunity to star in this Australian bird competition (should it be annual). It eats rubbish out of bins and drinks bin juice. The Powerful owl is losing it's home through land clearing.

The Powerful owl is on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, although it is marked as of 'least concern." Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List#2012_release and http://www.iucnredlist.org/ 

Such a powerful bird with super instincts it is able to relocate to other areas.  While they will probably survive, do we really want to force them to move and adapt their ways? This is already being seen now by me* and others, that is why it is important to do something now to save their habitat from greater loss.
 

Save the Powerful owl by voting for it and spreading the word. Raise public awareness around native animal habitat loss due to the clearing of our bio diverse forests.

Please no more automated voting, turn this into a social media campaign.

Spread the wise word.  

Voting is open until the 9th of December. One vote per real person.

Link to 'The Guardian' 2017 bird of the year vote:  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2017/nov/20/australian-bird-of-the-year-2017-vote-for-your-favourite

Wikipedia info about the Powerful owl at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerful_owl 

 

* My partner found an interesting large feather, my 3 year old nephew asked if it was a 'zebra feather?' We looked for pictures of the feather online and found that it might be a Powerful owl feather. What do you think?