Another Rabbit-proof Fence

[bushie]

Fair enough. Great to see that morals aren't forgotten.

I assume you support the ban of cruel devices such as glue traps for the purposes of 'population control' ? In fact Victoria's banning them. Seen what they can do, really nasty, no animal deserves to go through that.

Absolutely. There is no question in my mind that they are abhorrent.

 

[Richo83]

No richo...sorry.

Cats, foxes and dogs are my main focus.

Mmk. Well anyway good work.

 

[bushie]

Mmk. Well anyway good work.

Cheers Richo

But have no fear that there are a heap of people working their arses off to beat the toad.

It may take a while, but at least we are finally getting some decent government funding to attack the problem.

Far too late mind you.

But that is generally the way in our profession.

A bit like the climate change problem actually!

 

[evo]

Bushie you may know the answer to this.Was in fiji a few months back and there were dirty great toads hoping around every where there too.I suspected they were cane toads,and fiji has shed loads of sugar cane.Are they the same as our ones?Did the same genius introduce them over there too?

 

[bushie]

Bushie you may know the answer to this.Was in fiji a few months back and there were dirty great toads hoping around every where there too.I suspected they were cane toads,and fiji has shed loads of sugar cane.Are they the same as our ones?Did the same genius introduce them over there too?

Sorry evo.

No firm knowledge on this one.

But I would not be surprised at all.

I would find it hard to believe that Fiji has a native Toad that is as abundant ,for you as a tourist(?), to notice without it being an introduced species.

The fact that Fiji has a major sugar cane industry only confirms my suspicions.

But as I say, it is only an educated guess on my behalf.

 

[evo]

Ah,no worries.I'm sure I can google it.Was just curious.

I was up in there north where its just about all cane fields.They weren't in the QLD like plague proportions but there were alot.People round there are pretty skint and not much to do.Maybe they just keep them at bay the old fashioned way,belting them with a cane machete.Everyone seem to just wander around brandishing them,a little disconcerting seeing I was there during the latest coup.

 

[Mr Q]

Bushie you may know the answer to this.Was in fiji a few months back and there were dirty great toads hoping around every where there too.I suspected they were cane toads,and fiji has shed loads of sugar cane.Are they the same as our ones?Did the same genius introduce them over there too?

I seem to recall looking them up recently, and it appeared they'd been introduced pretty much right through the Pacific islands, so I'd expect they were cane toads.

(It was something to do with stompie asserting they came from Hawaii when bushie had said he thought they were from South America - turned out they were South American)

 

[stompie]

ROFL

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

You never cease to amaze me with your complete lack of any thing that even remotely resembles reality.

Give it up.

Your trolling and just making yourself look stupid.

Didn’t you say you would have no problem relocating the frog, litoria dahlia, to regions that it was not native to so they it could help control the cane toad?

Perhaps the difference is there is money to be made in not relocating the snails to areas other than a fridge, but there is money to be made in breeding and relocating the frogs. So once more you prove what I am saying. The solution that involves the greatest remuneration for “environmentalists” is the one that wins out.

But don’t worry. It is not as though you are the great ecologist who has now had his reputation diminished. It was already diminished when, after stating that no native animals had immunity to the poison of the cane toad, the great ecologist was informed by two other posters of a native frog and turtle that did in fact have immunity.

It seems you spend to much time on getting your funding, and not enough on keeping up with the latest research.

Let us also remember you are the fabled ecologist who argued that if the Devil were reintroduced to mainland Australia, as advocated by Professor Chris Johnson from James Cook University, then it would climb trees to hunt tree dwelling native marsupials and cause their extinction.

 

[stompie]

I seem to recall looking them up recently, and it appeared they'd been introduced pretty much right through the Pacific islands, so I'd expect they were cane toads.

(It was something to do with stompie asserting they came from Hawaii when bushie had said he thought they were from South America - turned out they were South American)

"They were deliberately introduced from Hawaii to Australia in 1935, to control scarab beetles that were pests of sugar cane"

http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/canetoad.htm