A great battle might have seemed a good idea but would it solve all the problems in the desert forever?
Thanks to the Artist Kaye Kessing
Feral Animals in Australia
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A great battle might have seemed a good idea but would it solve all the problems in the desert forever?
Thanks to the Artist Kaye Kessing
Questions/Answers on the affect of feral animals and clear felling of forests on native animals.
Read the question then a click will take you to the answer.
Questions 51, 52,
53, 54,
55, 56,
57, 58,
59, 60,
61, 62,
63.
Questions about forestry practices in Australia 61,
62, 63,
64, 65,
66.
You�ll notice that questions 61,
62, 63 of feral animals overlap into forestry.
General sites on feral animals in Australia
Feral Pigs (Sus scrofa)
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See what the feral pigs are doing to our cassowaries then ask our Prime Minister and see if he cares.
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Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
It appears that foxes could be an even worse threat to our fauna than feral cats.
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Cats (Felis catus)
Here is a site suggesting that cats cause no harm to wildlife (Animals Australia).
As well-meaning as Frankie Seymour might be, cats must eat, there are millions of them and they are not vegetarians.
Our beloved moggie is no less than a lion or tiger in miniature.
Australian fauna did no evolve with mini lions and tigers.
Notice how it is almost impossible for a cat to catch a Starling or an Indian mynah bird,
that is because those birds evolved in the land of the cat; they seem to know about cats whereas
our Willy wagtail, Blue wren and garden skink do not, until it is too late.
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Of course, this cat is only pretending to eat that Rosella... |
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European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
It is imperative that as we lower the numbers of rabbits we must also lower the numbers of feral cats and foxes.
If there is an eradication of the first group without the other, then more of our fauna must be eaten by the carnivores.
If we rid the land of only the carnivores then the rabbits will eat us all out of house and home.
The problem is that there is no balance between the introduced carnivores and the rabbits.
If left alone, cats and foxes will eventually wipe out the bilbies and all other types of bandicoots.
They will wipe out the hopping mice, dunnarts, numbats, quolls, bettongs, potoroos, pademelons,
lyrebirds, ground parrots, curlews, plains wanderers, mallee fowls, pratincoles, grass owls and any other
small creature that they can get their teeth into.
This in turn will put more pressure on our vulnerable fauna by native predators that must also compete
for the dwindling food source.
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Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta)
Fire Ants are a disaster taking hold right now.
Does anybody know whether on not Echidnas, Numbats or Thorny devils like to eat fire ants?
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Gambusia (Gambusia holbrooki)
Other names Mosquito fish also Plague minnow.
Have you noticed that there are fewer tadpoles around these days?
Guess what Gambusia love to eat?
| Gambusia Control Homepage |
| Australian Museum Fish Site |
| Aquatic Invaders |
| Gambusia or Mosquitofish |
| Burke�s Backyard - Gambusia |
| Archive of above site |
| Gambusia Damnbusia |
| The Plague Minnow |
| Australian Society for Fish Biology |
| Fish Online - Gambusia |
| Fish Species Gambusia |
| Mosquito fish and mosquito photos |
| Gambusia the Plague Minnow |
| The Tasmanian Conservation Trust |
| Brookvale Public School � Gambusia Hunt |
| Fish Victoria � Noxious Fish |
Cane Toads (Bufo marinus) - Bufonidae
A disaster for Australia.
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Common Indian Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
Not to be confused with the Australian Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala)
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Two great sites on endangered animals
| AN ENDANGERED SPECIES SITE - This site has many useful links. |
| THE CITES PHOTO GALLERY. |
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Politicians Addresses.
Please help by contacting or visiting your local politician, tell him/her what you think. Politicians love to receive visits and short letters from you. |
| Politician�s Addresses and phone numbers. (For: - Federal and State Governments) |
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Ten letters to a politician of no more than 30 to 50 words can be much more valuable than collecting 1000�s of signatures. Your letters count because they are counted, and ten letters are seen as over a 1000 votes. Politicians are actually busy people so never write long letters and only ever write about one issue per letter. Letters should be polite, short, sweet and to the point. Ask for a reply and when you get an answer that is nonsense send it straight back and ask them to address the issue and not send you another standard letter that had nothing to do with what you were writing about. |
| Remind them that you and your friends want to know who is worth voting for. |
