Conservation
Many of us learnt at school that the great Nile River sustained Egypt through floods that nourished the fertility of the river’s floodplain.
Our Murray and Darling Rivers are no different.
It’s in Australia’s national interest to protect and restore the Murray Darling Basin. Disconnect the river from the floodplain and you destroy the fertility of the land.
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Last week The Punch published this piece which is critical of Federal MP Bob Katter and his financial backers, who had been photographed posing with ‘extinct in the wild’ and exotic animals, including a giraffe. This is a response to that article.
My name is Keith Drain, I am a hunter and shooter, I run www.huntandshoot.com.au, a hunting and shooting news website. I am 27 years old, I have a beautiful wife and I work as a manager at a cinema. If you met me you’d think I was a regular guy - that’s because I am.
Like many others, I was introduced to shooting and fishing by my Dad. Hunting to me is an enjoyable and rewarding pastime. I get to go out and do what I love doing, I get to provide meat for my family and my dogs and I get to help the environment by ridding the land of feral and introduced species, which to me is very important. I have no shame in owning firearms or hunting.
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Blaze Peter Freemantle says:
Haha yeah ok. Take the gun away “KIM” and are u still gonna be dealing with a defenceles animal? A lion? A elephant? a tiger? Nah, id think ud be ripped in half. “PRESERVATION, EXTINCTION….. OH NO” It baffles me. Its as if people assume that we’ve been here for… Read more »
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Cameron says:
Guess what Kim, Hunting has been a hobby since the dawn of man, if your one of those ‘oh poor defenceless animals and plants that we eat, how could we!’ while humans kill how many millions of animals to eat a year, which we specifically breed to slaughter, dismember and… Read more »
Life was not meant to be easy for cassowaries.
I am writing this as I enjoy an escape at my in-laws hideaway retreat in the middle of a rainforest in Far North Queensland. It’s raining.
Heavy tropical rain is best experienced in a dense rainforest setting. It is a unique form of entertainment for a city slicker - especially when many of the other trappings of modern city life are non-existent. There is no mobile phone coverage, no town water - just a bore - a sub-soil waste management distribution system and very poor and infrequent radio reception even with an aerial. My link to the outside world is a satellite broadband set-up for internet - no television.
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Kika says:
Cassowaries eat their own poo.. A lot of the rainforest up north is germinated only by the fruit getting eaten by the birds, which they then poo around the place. Then they eat undigested fruit from their poo and the cycle continues. Amazing. But gross./ Read more »
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Kika says:
Hahah I am from Brisbane too and I agree with Fairsfair… Very rarely we get anything like a monsoonal shower. Yeah we get storms, but not like a monsoon. Read more »
Political correctness rules our lives and while I’m all for equal opportunity, why not extend it to some of the creatures that share our great country?
Why is it considered acceptable for one or two species to regularly claim human lives, while another is hunted down and killed in retribution? Or a whole colony culled, after what might be little more than a nip?
If you are unlucky enough to be eaten or bitten in the sea, you are intruding, you knowingly took the risk and the chances are very high that the protected predator responsible will be allowed to swim off in search of its next feed.
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Onural says:
Yeah it would be a bit scary to see 5 dingoes rnnuing towards you, so you can see why people run and scream to get away. But with proper education about dingo puppy play behavior all the tourists would be better off. If only DERM would understand about dingo behavior… Read more »
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Lisa says:
Let’s share this to encourage colprmsouy reading. It is really common sense for people who have any kind of compassion, intuition and sensitivity for humanity including any living beings. Dogs in council parks behave much worse than this; I had a mother dog who would run and bark at people… Read more »
It has taken humanity less than a million years to claw its way to the top of the food chain. Just because we’re number one it shouldn’t follow that we act like humanoid equivalents of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, madly devouring everything in our path and laying waste to the lesser creatures. And that includes cuttlefish.
This isn’t intended as some animal rights rant. Groups like PETA are off with the fairies. Vegetarianism seems a militant lifestyle choice when pursued as a matter of morality, rather than simply as a valid response to not liking the taste of meat, especially on the part of those who can see no inconsistency between rejecting flesh but happily wearing leather shoes.
That said, there are some members of the human race who don’t seem to have evolved far beyond the T-Rex in their hostility towards the more vulnerable and less intelligent members of the foodchain.
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Syl says:
Hah reading this thread made me laugh out loud at work. In summary Marko Underhanded swipe at meat eaters (give a bit of thought to the food they eat), while complaining about underhanded swipes at vegetarians (Oh, the irony). Lisa: OMG Meat eaters don’t understand and don’t want to. Elphaba… Read more »
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stephen says:
Next time you have jew on this site Penberthy i wanna have a talk to them. They’ve tried setting me up as paedaphile, terrorist, thief, (not entirely innocent) and anti-semite. I have more pull than you think I have,. Read more »
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