20,000 Koalas to be killed to make way for more subdivisions

[dmcowen674]

20,000 humans should be shot first :|

4-30-2004 Call to Shoot 20,000 Australian Koalas

"We are talking thousands of starving koalas," said Sandra Kanck from the Australian Democrats, Australia's third major political party.

"While they may be cute and cuddly we need to get beyond emotion to reality...my suggestion is professional shooters do it quickly and cleanly," Kanck told Reuters on Friday of the proposed cull.

 

[dahunan]

It is only going to get worse.

 

[shiner]

Wow...you really know how to write inflammatory topic summaries don't you? Too bad you CAN'T READ!!!!

"A koala population explosion on an Australian island has prompted calls for 20,000 of the furry, native marsupials to be shot to stop them destroying their island habitat and end a koala famine.

Some 30,000 koalas on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of the state of South Australia, are stripping the island of its native gum trees, destroying the ecosystem and causing a koala famine, say environmentalists and national parks officials. "

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Wow...you really know how to write inflammatory topic summaries don't you? Too bad you CAN'T READ!!!!

"A koala population explosion on an Australian island has prompted calls for 20,000 of the furry, native marsupials to be shot to stop them destroying their island habitat and end a koala famine.

Some 30,000 koalas on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of the state of South Australia, are stripping the island of its native gum trees, destroying the ecosystem and causing a koala famine, say environmentalists and national parks officials. "

The Australian Koala Foundation also opposes a cull of the koalas, which on the Australian mainland are struggling to survive as urban development destroys their habitat.

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Wow...you really know how to write inflammatory topic summaries don't you? Too bad you CAN'T READ!!!!

"A koala population explosion on an Australian island has prompted calls for 20,000 of the furry, native marsupials to be shot to stop them destroying their island habitat and end a koala famine.

Some 30,000 koalas on Kangaroo Island, off the coast of the state of South Australia, are stripping the island of its native gum trees, destroying the ecosystem and causing a koala famine, say environmentalists and national parks officials. "

The Australian Koala Foundation also opposes a cull of the koalas, which on the Australian mainland are struggling to survive as urban development destroys their habitat.

Exactly....ON THE MAINLAND....the 20k Koalas in question are on an island......AN ISLAND....if you had ANY reading comprehension skills you would have picked up on that.

But hey.....if you insist that 20k humans should be shot then why don't you volunteer and get in line.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Well why not ship the Kangaroo Island koalas to the mainland? Oh I know. Habitats on the mainland have been decimated by non-native species . . .

I must agree the most humane thing to do at this point is to kill the koalas. But that article is horribly bereft of detail. I would like to know how the population increase could be so dramatic . . . particularly for marsupials.

 

[nutxo]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
Well why not ship the Kangaroo Island koalas to the mainland? Oh I know. Habitats on the mainland have been decimated by non-native species . . .

I must agree the most humane thing to do at this point is to kill the koalas. But that article is horribly bereft of detail. I would like to know how the population increase could be so dramatic . . . particularly for marsupials.

Im sure there has to be a positive here somewhere.

Are koalas edible? Feed the homeless

I wonder if the fur would be good for gloves or something? Keep the homeless warm.


:sun:

 

[shiner]

20,000 dead Koalas = Back for a limited time only....the McDdonald's McRib sandwich!!!!

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

You two are so wrong . . . funny but evil.

 

[NightCrawler]

People are MORE important then animals......enough said!

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
20,000 dead Koalas = Back for a limited time only....the McDdonald's McRib sandwich!!!!

:laugh:

 

[RabidMongoose]

This is a grave injustice and a crime to the earth. We should invade Australia to save these cute and cuddly animals.

 

[zephyrprime]

That article doesn't say a darn thing about subdivisions.

This is nature. Famines happen all the time. It's been studied before in various populations. The natural thing to happen here is for the koala's to destroy their habitat and then die of starvation in massive numbers. Such is nature and nature is a bloody b!tch.

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
This is a grave injustice and a crime to the earth. We should invade Australia to save these cute and cuddly animals.

Yes Koalas liberation and then we can put them in strange poses and take pictures.



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[DealMonkey]

I blame Qantas.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
That article doesn't say a darn thing about subdivisions.

This is nature. Famines happen all the time. It's been studied before in various populations. The natural thing to happen here is for the koala's to destroy their habitat and then die of starvation in massive numbers. Such is nature and nature is a bloody b!tch.

Actually, this is not natural. There are no predators to deal with excess koala populations. This means only food supply side control. This is unnatural and will lead right back to another population explosion later on. Koalas don't know there is limited food, only that there is food. When the food runs out and are starving to death, they will spread diseases aswell. making the population as a whole unhealthy.

The humane thing to do is either introduce a predator (native) or shoot the excess population.

 

[sMiLeYz]

lol i think dave was trying to be funny... people need to chill.

 

[BurnItDwn]

whats wrong with killing 20,000 koalas ??? As long as no people get hurt I don't give a damn.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674
20,000 humans should be shot first :|

4-30-2004 Call to Shoot 20,000 Australian Koalas

"We are talking thousands of starving koalas," said Sandra Kanck from the Australian Democrats, Australia's third major political party.

"While they may be cute and cuddly we need to get beyond emotion to reality...my suggestion is professional shooters do it quickly and cleanly," Kanck told Reuters on Friday of the proposed cull.

20K humans over some Koalas ( I don't like to see animals killed either ) ...But you moan when are troops have to engage on enemy fighters and somtimes hit civilians while defending their own lives..

Please, get that job so you don't have to post as much.

 

[klah]

What about the 100,000's of deer slaughtered right there in GA??!!!!!??

Topic: 700,000 Bambis to be killed to make way for more Georgians

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0903/17deer.html?urac=n

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1103/21deer.html

Whitetail deer are beautiful to see, but the state of Georgia is begging hunters to harvest more than ever this year.

The state has increased the number of deer allowed per year (to 12 from eight), increased the length of the hunting season (one additional week), and now allows crossbows to be used during the five-week archery season. Other hunting rules also have been liberalized. In summary, Georgia legislators are doing everything short of putting a bounty on deer to lower their numbers.

Historically, whitetail deer cause Georgians more harm and property damage each year than all the terrorists in the world. Nationwide the cost is running to hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This year, American whitetail deer will spread disease to thousands, and deer-vehicle collisions will injure or kill thousands more. Additionally, deer overpopulation is decimating fragile plant species and destroying habitat of many species of songbirds and other endangered animals.

Georgia has roughly 1.3 million whitetail deer. Georgia's sustainable carrying capacity peaks at about 1 million deer. About 40 percent should be removed each year to maintain a herd's numbers -- they reproduce that fast. Georgia hunters would have to harvest roughly 700,000 deer this year to reduce the herd to sustainable numbers -- more than Georgia hunters have ever taken in any single year. Georgia will have too many deer again next year.

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About 400 deer crowd the 1,428-acre park on Lake Allatoona -- roughly 180 per square mile. A healthy forest has fewer than 20 deer per square mile, biologists say. Such a concentration of hungry deer has left the forest floor barren. There are no shrubs, few grasses, fewer flowers.

Missing from Red Top Mountain are tulip poplar trees, blackberry bushes and honeysuckle, according to a plant survey done earlier this year.

Meat from the killed deer will be donated to food banks and homeless shelters.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

The animals will become endangered if not for the hunting. They will literally eat until there is no food left and then they all die.
Hunting them is saving more of their lives. 20,000 have to be shot to save 10,000. THis is what wildlife management is all about.
Go protest abortion instead.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: klah
What about the 100,000's of deer slaughtered right there in GA??!!!!!??

Topic: 700,000 Bambis to be killed to make way for more Georgians

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0903/17deer.html?urac=n

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1103/21deer.html

Whitetail deer are beautiful to see, but the state of Georgia is begging hunters to harvest more than ever this year.

The state has increased the number of deer allowed per year (to 12 from eight), increased the length of the hunting season (one additional week), and now allows crossbows to be used during the five-week archery season. Other hunting rules also have been liberalized. In summary, Georgia legislators are doing everything short of putting a bounty on deer to lower their numbers.

Historically, whitetail deer cause Georgians more harm and property damage each year than all the terrorists in the world. Nationwide the cost is running to hundreds of millions of dollars annually. This year, American whitetail deer will spread disease to thousands, and deer-vehicle collisions will injure or kill thousands more. Additionally, deer overpopulation is decimating fragile plant species and destroying habitat of many species of songbirds and other endangered animals.

Georgia has roughly 1.3 million whitetail deer. Georgia's sustainable carrying capacity peaks at about 1 million deer. About 40 percent should be removed each year to maintain a herd's numbers -- they reproduce that fast. Georgia hunters would have to harvest roughly 700,000 deer this year to reduce the herd to sustainable numbers -- more than Georgia hunters have ever taken in any single year. Georgia will have too many deer again next year.

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About 400 deer crowd the 1,428-acre park on Lake Allatoona -- roughly 180 per square mile. A healthy forest has fewer than 20 deer per square mile, biologists say. Such a concentration of hungry deer has left the forest floor barren. There are no shrubs, few grasses, fewer flowers.

Missing from Red Top Mountain are tulip poplar trees, blackberry bushes and honeysuckle, according to a plant survey done earlier this year.

Meat from the killed deer will be donated to food banks and homeless shelters.

Yes, the same thing happened here, right in my backyard in fact.

Our subdivision was the last to be built before the developers adopted a bulldoze everything to the ground approach. All of the trees that could be left alone were kept intact especially 100-200 feet from the creeks and river that runs here. We are on 1.3 acres with the house on the .3 on a cul de sac while the back is natural woods with a creek.

Now the developers of the rest of the subdivisions being built all around have bulldozed everything in site as far as the eye can see. This has left no homes for the deer and other animals. They get splattered all over the road everyday.

Also here there is a good deal of space between houses. The density just 4 years ago for developers was a minimum of 1 acre. The following year it went to .4, this year it's .2 and zero if on sewer. I have documented all of this on my website and posted here many times with the houses that have literally 1 foot between them and I said it would result in entire subdivsions burning down when there is a house fire and that has already happened twice this year.

There is no way to contain a fire load of that magnitude until there is no fuel source left.

 

[Kadarin]

20K Humans should be shot first

So here you are either advocating the slaughter of 20,000 people outright, OR you are placing a greater value on the lives of the koalas as opposed to the lives of 20,000 people. Nice.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

20K Humans should be shot first

So here you are either advocating the slaughter of 20,000 people outright, OR you are placing a greater value on the lives of the koalas as opposed to the lives of 20,000 people. Nice.

That's Dave for you.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

20K Humans should be shot first

So here you are either advocating the slaughter of 20,000 people outright, OR you are placing a greater value on the lives of the koalas as opposed to the lives of 20,000 people. Nice.

Funny wonder how there is any Koalas left on the planet, what did they possibly do before we came along to manage them by slaughtering thousands because we feel like we are God?