Wombat cull

[martinw-48]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-02/wombat-cull-approved-by-sa-government-following-request/12016...

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

[tasfleur]

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!

[imastawka]

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.

[myoclon1cjerk]

I'll take one 🙂

[ecar3483]

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...

🙂

[davidc4430]

its called 'mixed messages'

2 weeks ago it was headlines 'saving wombats'

now its 'kill the wombats'

[serendipityricho]

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

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

[davidc4430]

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

not even as road kill

[lionrose.7]

Yes and come and get your oppossums from NZ LOL.

I will swap 500 oppossums for one Wombat.

Save the Wombat

[davidc4430]

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