10-01-2018, 03:07 PM
The Tasmanian government is proposing a sugar glider cull to help the Swift Parrots to survive.
Sugar Gliders are an introduced species. They eat eggs, babies and even adult parrots.
Many parrots are lost because of the sugar gliders.
The public is not too happy about the proposed cull. It presupposes that the sugar gliders are the only threat to the Swift Parrots.
Human activity like logging and dam building cause habitat loss which is a bigger threat to the parrots.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-30/go...s/10322548
The whole premise of the cull is that removing an introduced species, like sugar gliders will save the parrots.
It seems to me that the biggest threat is from another introduced species, humans. We forget that we are an introduced in most of the world. We do more damage that any other introduced species anywhere.
Instead of culling the Sugar Gliders we should be controlling our own behavior. If we looked after the damage we do there would be no need to kill other animals. We introduced sugar gliders in the first place. Perhaps we should see if we can relocate them.
We caused the problem, we should have to find a humane solution.
Sugar Gliders are an introduced species. They eat eggs, babies and even adult parrots.
Many parrots are lost because of the sugar gliders.
The public is not too happy about the proposed cull. It presupposes that the sugar gliders are the only threat to the Swift Parrots.
Human activity like logging and dam building cause habitat loss which is a bigger threat to the parrots.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-30/go...s/10322548
The whole premise of the cull is that removing an introduced species, like sugar gliders will save the parrots.
It seems to me that the biggest threat is from another introduced species, humans. We forget that we are an introduced in most of the world. We do more damage that any other introduced species anywhere.
Instead of culling the Sugar Gliders we should be controlling our own behavior. If we looked after the damage we do there would be no need to kill other animals. We introduced sugar gliders in the first place. Perhaps we should see if we can relocate them.
We caused the problem, we should have to find a humane solution.
Catherine