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29 Apr 05:45am

Filed under: Conservation, Dingoes, Lindy Chamberlain, Sharks, Wildlife

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?

Man's best friend? Pic: Peter Wallis

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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Echosmum says:

03:47pm | 21/02/12

They ARE the Australian wolf Canis Lupis Dingo (Lupis as in WOLF)- NOT a dog Canis Familiaris. They have been here 18,000 years Nick. When the apex predator is removed from the environment cascading extinctions of other natives follow as mesopredators fill the void- this is happening Australia wide, loss… Read more »
Echosmum says:

02:57pm | 21/02/12

The child was unattended in an area with dingoes,death adders,1000’s of 4x4’s, and of course the ocean. The mother and nanna were unaware that she was not with them TOTALLY UNAWARE The barge operator saw the child and was screaming from his cabin at the many people on the beach… Read more »

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