Kangaroo Culling

Spud Emperor said:
There are some big issues here.
Relocating the roos shouldn't have been one of them.
Apparently the quote to relocate them was something like six million dollars, fuck me, that is totally ridiculous.
I mean they rounded them up to dart them, then euthanase them, surely it would have been cheaper to stick 'em on a truck and drive out to the high country, anywhere.

The entire Australian continent had been isolated for millenia.
The Aboriginal people arrived something like sixty thousand years ago and lived as close to biologically neutral or uninvasive as seems possible for our species.

The indigenous mammal species in particular were evolved for incredibly narrow niches and the sudden impact of the 'weed species' ( rabbits, rats, foxes, cats, goats, pigs etc, etc) have wiped out an astonishing number of species. The Tasmanian Tiger is far from the only extinction.

Add Man ( invasive variety) and a host of other weeds ( including domestic livestock) and you have a unique biodiversity under extreme duress.

The crazy thing is, the delicate soil structure ( often almost non existent) is copletely unsuitable for cloven hooved grazers ( read sheep and cows).
One of the few endemic species to have thrived from farming practices has been the kangaroo. There are literally millions and millions of them and the logical answer is to swap kangaroos for traditional meat sources ( cows and sheep) and allow the landscape to recover somewhat. Kangaroo meat is tender, lean, delicious and plentiful, the leather is also top quality.

An educational process was called for, not a PR nightmare.
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Amen !
I like it :)
 
If the aboriginals were so neutral, they wouldn't have caused the megafauna to go extinct from overhunting and burning of forests...
 
lepustimidus said:
If the aboriginals were so neutral, they wouldn't have caused the megafauna to go extinct from overhunting and burning of forests...
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Yawn!

Come on Sock muppet regale us with your extraordinary knowledge and bring your bat, should be able to club some sense into us softy, pinko, lefty, boong lovers.
 
Yeah I was going to say...
Aborigines rendered thousands of species extinct. Australia is essentially a desolate wasteland wildlife wise, a few stragglers remain (and flourish in part due to the unnatural lack of competition), and aborigines are largely to blame.
If it wasn't for aborigines the first white settlers would have had crocodile sized monitor lizards, pythons bigger than anacondas, marsupial lions, arboreal carnivorous possums the size of leopards, wombats the size of buses, man eating flightless birds and etc to contend with.

The main reason australia has so much trouble with introduced species is there are so many vacant niches in the ecosystems. Foxes, dogs, cats, pigs, rabbits, goats etc get so out of control because there's all these massive expansive wild environments with hardly any animals in them.
 
And no terrestrial carnivores bigger than a cat.
Yeah, I know, Dingoes.

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Spud there is one problem with using wild populations as food source and thats the health and hygene laws. Wild killed populations are generally harder to sell because they require all sorts of health inspections that farmed animals dont (because they are checked through out there life time). Couple that with the percentage that actually DO get found to have a paricyte, diease or fungus that prohibits use as food stock and the extra costs involved in hunting them down and transporting them and the public fear around eating hunted meat and that shoots the price up way above the farmed variaties of the same species. This is why hunting and use as a food source ARNT used to control plage proportion species like kangroos
 
What about changing our ways, so not more species either die out or become plague species ?
 
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