Two examples of how human population growth is negatively impacting native fauna in Australia (who arguably have more right to the land than the foreign-born or -descended humans who now inhabit it).
“Fears cassowary may vanish”, The Age, 24/6. The habitat of endangered Cassowary birds in North Queensland is under threat from housing. This only adds to my hatred of greedy property developers and the politicians who give them free rein.
“Roo culling wrong, protesters say”, 7/7. Grey kangaroos are being shot for the annual cull in Canberra. Why?
The ACT’s parks director Russell Watkinson said culling was necessary to protect the environment.
“We have an overabundant number of eastern grey kangaroos,” he said, adding they were overpopulating areas after being hemmed in reserves because of urban development.
“The kangaroos are grazing the habitats of rare and endangered species down to bare earth.”
Start culling the humans who are overpopulating the area, instead!
Sometimes I imagine aliens visiting Earth and deciding to cull the human population for the exact same reasons as given in that article (replace the word “kangaroos” with “humans”). This would be a sort of cosmic karma!
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