This was in my paper today.... I had to laugh at the comment:
Tasmanian Liberal senator Eric Abetz asked if the 110 dead ducks had fed off corpses or whether it was more likely they had fed off the 305 tonnes of poison bait on the island, which lies between Tasmania and Antarctica in the Southern Ocean.
I'm so sick of all the poisons in Tassie. It's really sad. Plus there's also all those foxes out there you know... that no one has been able to find even though we have a fox eradication task force that takes tax payer money and it's been going on for years!
Haha yeah in what kind of universe do ducks feed on dead animal corpses o_O
"Mr Burke said the impact on fauna were continually monitored, adding he had moved to tighten the program's regulations in November."
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When implementing these sorts of programs shouldn't the regulations be as tight as possible to begin with? Then the deaths of these birds could have been avoided in the first place.
Surely there is a better solution that doesn't involve spreading poison everywhere. How many other native animals have been unintentionally killed by poison since the cull began? There is no mention of that in the article.
I'm so sick of all the poisons in Tassie. It's really sad. Plus there's also all those foxes out there you know... that no one has been able to find even though we have a fox eradication task force that takes tax payer money and it's been going on for years!
There are definitely foxes in Tasmania, only about 20 individuals, but foxes are here nonetheless, they just have populated yet, and for the sake of our wildlife, let's hope they don't!
But I agree with you, Tasmania needs to stop throwing poisons here and there to kill this animal in order to conserve that one. It's not working, and this article is the perfect example of how poisoning one animal is just killing a heap of others. Including those that are critically endangered. Sometimes I wonder if the people who think up these eradication programs have heads made of concrete.
