, but humans as a species), maybe we need to introduce a predator to wipe a few of us out?!
I thought the buyback of guns was to stop repeat Port author massacres?. My only issue with using hunters as a control method is, it hasn't worked, people shoot camels, the government shoots camels, and camels are multiplying faster than we can afford to subtract. Multiply the same problem by every species of feral animal. It's not a viable solution.
You are mostly right about attitudes to hunters, I'm personally just skeptical that hunters have the environment in their best interests, even if their net impact is positive. Killing for sport is just so unsophisticated. It's a throwback to the days when a good old fashioned Tiger hunt was a gentlemanly thing to do.. I have no issues with innocent animals being shot, a dead animal gets over it pretty quickly. It's the balance of the ecosystem that I care about.
Maybe the ultra animal rights activists have given people opposed to shooting a bad image?
Maybe I've just been negatively influenced by hollywood?
This idea or 'rewilding' apex predators is covered in this BBC documentary which seems to be narrated by M from 007.. Called 'Predators in your back yard'.
It documents the rewinding of wolves to yellowstone, cougars to florida, bears to the Alps.. And also the returning of Wolves to the UK. At the end of the documentary a Biologist is arguing for the reintroduction of the Lion to south america to control the wild horses. It's a good documentary, if only for the footage of the bears being released. Some pretty funny reactions.
I think a lot of this can be applied to Australia.
maybe we could live export the camels to the middle east in exchange for their oil, or women
) for camels?
I agree that we should eat more roo and camel. We are so obsessed with eating european style foods.. Imagine if we all ate Roos, it's easy if you try, imagine no fences, above us only magpie??. Anyway I didn't know the answer to this..
) for camels?
