Three riders held up some traffic here and there as their horses walked into Uralla on Monday morning. Inverell farmer Glenn Morris, accompanied by Francesca Andreoni and Estelle, came to the end of the 170 kilometres ride from Glen Innes to Uralla to highlight the need for action on climate change.
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It's been a great ride. A lot of people stopping and thanking me for what I am doing.
- Glenn Morris
The three rode in from the north, through town and into Pioneer Park to rest both horses and the riders.
"We floated the horse up to Glen Innes on Anzac Day. Both of us attended the Dawn Service and then we hit the road," Glenn said.
"It's been a great ride. A lot of people stopping and thanking me for what I am doing.
"We've had a lot of media attention, but we really do need to get the message out that our landscapes, our oceans, everything is stating to degrade because of climate change."
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Glenn said Australians had to stop playing political games with climate change.
"It's up to the public to demand we have some stronger action and truth on climate change," he said.
"I'm concerned about all environmental problems. The loss of biodiversity, climate change the destruction of our waterways and water cycles due to bad land management, over-mining, coal seam gas - you name it.
"We just need a really strong vision for the future, and the public really have to ask themselves, 'What do we want from Australia, what do we want it to look like and what do they want for the world?'."
Glenn said he mustered most of this region 30 years ago and there were no trees dying.
"I swam in the Great Barrier Reef and it was the most beautiful thing I will ever see in my life. We've already lost half of that," he said.
"Now we're seeing 15-20 per cent of trees dying in this area and all over Australia. The Earth is actually in real trouble."
