(10-01-2018, 03:07 PM)Catherine Wrote: 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.
Absolutely right, Catherine! It is humans who have created this mess - but humans only look to killing innocent creatures, not to blaming their past behaviour. We are upsetting balances of nature all over the place, but the only answers we come up with is killing. What an appalling record! We humans should be ashamed of the way we are ruining the environment and the balance of nature. We are continuing to destroy rain forests - but no-one suggests killing the people who do that.....even though that is causing massive damage, threatening all life on earth. We have a warped sense of priorities.
It is a similar situation regarding grey squirrels having been introduced into England a couple of centuries ago. We humans did that - and are now culling the grey squirrels because they have pushed out the poor red squirrels - which were indigenous to England since the year dot. That is so similar - and equally a crime where we fail to acknowledge our own horrendous mismanagement of nature.
Some people claim that humans are "superior". Sorry, I don't think so. In some areas, we are inferior. We do not live in harmony with nature. We disrupt it.
