Sugar Glider cull in Tasmania

[platy]

(10-21-2018, 01:08 AM)LPC Wrote:

(10-20-2018, 09:47 PM)platy Wrote: It is awfully unfair, they're just doing what they do to survive.

Indeed. It is disgustingly unfair. Where are the humans beating their breasts in deep regret and self-recrimination? Where is the "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa"? It isn't there. We should hang our heads in shame. Having created this situation in the first place, we should find a solution other than just always resorting to killing. Humans seem addicted to that.....

(P.S. For those who don't understand the context above: Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that means "through my fault" and is a sincere and deep acknowledgement of having done wrong. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mea_culpa. It is often used figuratively, not in any religious sense).

There definitely is a group of dedicated people trying their hardest to put a stop to the habitat destruction though. And a lot of people are doing this work for free. It's not that they want to kill sugar gliders, but that swift parrots are critically endangered, not an invasive species in this particular environment and require protection. 

Australia is a disgrace when it comes to endangered species and us conservationists are always between a rock and a hard place.