topic Re: Wombat cull in Community Spirit

Wombat cull

martinw-48 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:44:44 GMT

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-02/wombat-cull-approved-by-sa-government-following-request/12016388?utm_source=abc_news&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=abc_news

Surely these excess Wombats could be caught and released in National parks where there are no Wombats.
This is total BS

Re: Wombat cull

tasfleur — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:09:36 GMT

It makes me feel sick to know that a Government could allow that. I don't care whose land it is. If the wombats are "damaging their vehicles", then the drivers should slow down and watch out for them and look after the native wildlife!

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imastawka — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 06:15:31 GMT

Humane?

Isn't that what the indigenous copper called chasing and stoning one to death?

An Aboriginal elder has expressed serious concerns, saying wombats should be "looked after"

Sickening.

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myoclon1cjerk — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:22:57 GMT

I'll take one 🙂

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ecar3483 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:42:52 GMT

Personally, I think reducing the population by 30% will solve nothing in the medium to long term.

Wombats, unlike people, don't stay in their single brick shangri-las...

They move around...

If they see an empty territory they'll move into it...

So, killing however many wombats, in a fixed area, in the short term, won't solve the wombat problem, in the longer term.

Haven't they had fires down that way that wiped out entire populations of native species?

Do they think that the wasteland will remain empty, for eternity?

Life will return to the land, and cycle of life will continue...

🙂

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davidc4430 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:49:45 GMT

its called 'mixed messages'

2 weeks ago it was headlines 'saving wombats'

now its 'kill the wombats'

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serendipityricho — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:49:19 GMT

Get rid of cane toads-camels- rabbits-feral cats-pigs and deer etc before

starting on native animals............

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davidc4430 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:52:22 GMT

i live on the yorke peninsula, ive never seen a wombat

not even as road kill

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lionrose.7 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:54:27 GMT

Yes and come and get your oppossums from NZ LOL.

I will swap 500 oppossums for one Wombat.

Save the Wombat

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davidc4430 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 08:02:19 GMT

According to traditional owner and Adjahdura/Narungga and Ngadjuri elder Quenten Agius, the farmer who rents the land from the Aboriginal community is having his equipment broken when he runs over the animals.

ok, lets say thats true, how does killing 30 out of every 100 stop him running them over?

surely you would need to kill them all, or more like 90 out of every 100.

btw, just how often does he run them over?

i smell a rat here, not a wombat

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kopenhagen5 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 08:07:28 GMT

@serendipityricho wrote:
Get rid of cane toads-camels- rabbits-feral cats-pigs and deer etc before
starting on native animals............

Quite agree richo, the deadly 8 I think they are referred to.

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imastawka — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 08:07:44 GMT

Is he driving at night with no headlights?

How about he just looks where he's going?

Can't be that hard.

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joz*garage — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:34:19 GMT

What will they do with them after?

I heard they make an excellent stew

Runs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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serendipityricho — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:39:39 GMT

Joe--the wombat---eats ..roots and leaves............

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joz*garage — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:41:40 GMT

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davidc4430 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 10:40:31 GMT

@serendipityricho wrote:
Joe--the wombat---eats ..roots and leaves............

just like bad boyfriends then?

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debra9275 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:19:07 GMT

at least the locals are taking a stand against the wombat culling. which is good to see

https://7news.com.au/news/animals/wombat-cull-on-sas-yorke-peninsula-sparks-outcry-from-locals-and-rescue-groups-c-725359?utm_campaign=share-icons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&tid=1583149188839

Aigus says the farmer is complaining that the animals are damaging his equipment when he runs them over.

“It disgusts me... to find out that 200 Southern hairy-nosed wombats are going to be slaughtered,” Aigus said.

I've never heard anything more ridiculous than that farmer's claim about damaging his equipment... what sort of man is that???

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myoclon1cjerk — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:57:02 GMT

The sort of men that love and respect nature. Clear fells trees and kills native wildlife.

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myoclon1cjerk — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:58:21 GMT

And worships at the altar of mammon.

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bright.ton42 — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 02:04:43 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
Is he driving at night with no headlights?

How about he just looks where he's going?

Can't be that hard.

Or driving too fast?

This whole thing disgusts me.