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Trap, neuter and release.... not a valid option in Australia 2008-09-10 23:10:24 Trap, neuter and release (TNR) is touted as an idea whose time has come. The website Neighborhood cats is one example of many advocating the technique (www.neighborhoodcats.org/whatistnr.htm) and going as far as claiming TNR as the "only method proven to... Read more:Australia
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Australia Zoo impresses 2008-09-05 00:02:56 With an animal-mad 10-year old son, my family and I took the opportunity to visit AustraliaZoo
north of Brisbane, ahead of the International Animal Welfare meeting on the Gold Coast. We were all incredibly impressed. Australia Zoo is of...
Australian Wildlife Conservancy - doing some amazing stuff 2008-08-19 02:22:45 Australian Wildlife Conservancy continues to amaze everyone. They announced in the last couple of days that they've purchased Marion Downs in the Kimberly, next to their Mornington Sanctuary. A couple of weeks ago, AWC's founder Martin Copley was listed as... Read more:Australian
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Carp on the move - and into traps! 2008-08-07 21:37:57 On yesterday's ABC 666 spot, Dr. Ben Smith of the South Australian Research and Development Institute reported that carp have begun to move in the Murray River, maybe signalling the end of the Australian winter. Ben is monitoring carp behaviour...
Maryland Savannah causing concern 2008-08-05 00:53:11 Amongst all the attention this week in Australia regarding the banning of the Savannah
cat, a parallel story has been running in the United States. Students at the University of Maryland
reported sighting of a cougar, causing a nationwide burst...
Savannah Cats banned from Australia 2008-08-03 03:56:43 Brilliant news today with the announcement by Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, that Savannah
Cats will not be allowed into Australia
. The Minister has used his powers under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 to amend the definition of...
What's on the menu? 2008-07-03 20:51:11 Imagine a line of trucks from Sydney to Grafton on the New South Wales north coast. More than five hours driving at the speed limit hurtling past truck after truck lined up bumper to bumper. Now fill the back of...
Battle of the petitions 2008-06-24 06:52:29 The snake people started a petition to the Minister for the Environment calling on him to review the import of Savannah cats (which he has done, presumably before receiving the petition). The importers of the cats started one a few... Read more:Battle
Thank you Minister! 2008-06-20 21:28:54 Australian Government Minister
for the Environment, Peter Garrett, has announced a review of the import of Savannah cats. This is a terrific outcome. Our main concern was that these animals could simply come in as "domestic" cats with no risk... Read more:Thank
Mouse plague information and help available 2008-09-25 22:27:16 The Grains Research and Development Corporation helped get zinc phosphide bait registered a number of years ago. Those coping with increased mouse numbers can organise bait through Animal Control Technologies Australia (see sidebar for link). The GRDC also has pest... Read more:available
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Horrible reminder of 1993 plague 2008-09-22 02:06:57 Here's a link to a Guiness Book of Records video of the 1993 plauge in Southern Australia. -2007/guinness-mouse-plague
-p1.php The northern plague is nothing like this and we have better tools to cope with the registration of Mouseoff (link to Animal...
Mouse Plague in north needs action 2008-09-21 21:09:59 A quiet mouse plague is going on in Queensland's Darling Downs and the north of New South Wales. I haven't seen any media attention as yet, but a massive amount of bait is getting hauled north to cope with big... Read more:Mouse
Indian Mynas still Canberra's most hated 2008-09-17 21:40:37 According to our national surveying, the cane toad has passed the Indian myna as Australia's most unpopular feral. But even with a local election looming, there is no doubt at all that the Indian Myna still tops the list of... Read more:Canberra
Cat nominated as our biggest mistake 2008-09-16 01:04:33 Frank Keenan from Biosecurity Queensland contemplated in an email to me that the cat might represent Australia's worst feral mistake. Cane toads are firmly lodged in the national psyche as one of the dumbest moves we've made - introducing them... Read more:nominated
Prime Minister honours scientists 2008-10-16 19:37:10 The Prime Minister
of Australia, Kevin Rudd and the Minister for Innovation, Kim Carr, honoured scientists
and science teachers at a spectacular event in the Great Hall of Parliament House last night. I'm lucky enough to score an invitation to... Read more:Prime Minister
You guessed it: Cane Toad "tastes like chicken" 2008-10-13 17:56:27 A month or so ago, I got a phone call asking if I'd ever eaten cane toad. The caller wasn't really interested in the taste, but the safety - would eating a toad kill you? Knowing the limits of my...
"Plague" stirs the emotions 2008-10-09 00:04:10 The term "plague" is a bit of a scary one. Occasionally, Americans ask what I mean by the term "mouse plague" because they don't experience the population explosions we see. I think Australia and China are the only places we... Read more:emotions
In agreement with Sir Gustav 2008-10-07 00:38:53 I note I'm in good company enjoying the just-published Pasteur's Gambit (see review below -gambit.html). Author Stephen Dando-Collins let me know that esteemed scientist Sir Gustav Nossal had relished the story "Frankly," Sir Gustav said, in part, "I had no...
Individual action needed to control mice 2008-10-01 21:47:18 Imagine seeing the first crop on your place for four years. Three or more years lost to drought - maybe you didn't plant in a couple of those years, at least saving the cost of seed and fertilizer. But this... Read more:Individual
The last carp in Crescent? 2008-11-05 17:34:00 Isn't this one of the best looking beasts you've ever seen? The fish, not the bloke. It's a female common carp and very possibly the last one in Tasmania's Lake Crescent
. Moron or moron(s) unknown introduced carp into Lakes Crescent...
Bumblebees to stay out 2008-10-26 18:21:13 Another good decision by Environment Minister Peter Garrett - this time to keep bumblebees out of mainland Australia. Certain hydroponic industry interests thought it would be a good idea to bring them in for pollination services in greenhouses. This was...
Woylie translocation important for conservation 2008-10-22 00:49:55 Australian Wildlife Conservancy has just announced a translocation of 60 woylies from Karakamia (southwestern Australia) to Stage 2 of Scotia in far-west NSW. AWC has now conducted more than 75 translocations of threatened mammals. This is a really important translocation....
Alaska expels Savannah cats 2008-11-19 17:36:47 Alaskan government officials have moved to expel a recently recaptured Savannah
cat, reports Jim Halpin of the Anchorage Daily News (story here). Simon the Savannah cat had been missing for six months when Department of Fish and Game found him... Read more:Alaska
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