WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP SUBMISSION ANIMAL WELFARE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2019 (closes 7/2/19)
https://yoursay.act.gov.au/animal-welfare-bill-amendments
The entire animal kingdom, including all aquatic life and all bird life be treated with equal rights as humans. Habeas corpus hearings on behalf of nonhuman animals.
CRIMINAL OFFENCE, CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS, HEFTY FINES, IMPRISONMENT COMMITTED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR AGENCIES
Ban the sale and use of inhumane glue traps
BRUMBIES KILLING STOPPED
This article shows that Scientific Fraud continues into a trigger happy violent Government and their Department to try and justify the unnecessary killing of Brumbies (wild horses), equivalent to the NATIVE Eastern Grey Kangaroos.
The Canberra Times link to the article below falsely claims that there are 6000 or 7000 Brumbies in NSW that will enter the ACT.
Your evidence is shown in the photo, 1 Stallion, 1 Mare, 1 Foal, showing the true small population, that is your grossly over estimated 6000-7000 wild horses that the Government and their Departments is repeatedly guilty of in what ever animal the are counting.
The small herds of horses are easy enough to safely herd ito corrals and to give to anyone who wants the horses as pets, not to kill. How to introduce a horse to a herd: https://ihearthorses.com/6-tips-to-introduce-a-new-horse-to-a-herd/
Taxpayers money to be spent on setting up a horse rescue team to rescue the Brumbies and to rehome them.
All the damage contamination caused to the water, and the valleys is caused by the Government and their Departments, and not by the horses, pigs, or any other animal that they falsely accuse.
They claim that horses are not native to Australia so they want to kill them, and yet they kill all the NATIVE Eastern Grey Kangaroos, including other native macropods and wildlife, and replace them with hoofed Goats, sheep and cattle that are not native to Australia either. Please refer to the Native Eastern Grey Kangaroos section below.
The Government and their Departments falsely claim and accuse the horses of contaminating the water quality, and the valleys.
Please refer to the CARP section below as the Government want to contaminate our drinking water and waterways by releasing the Carp herpesvirus into our waterways to kill the Carp that will not only cause violent deaths and suffering to the Carp, humans and other wildlife, it will cause mutatations.
The Government and their Departments starve the rivers by diverting the run-off waters into wetlands, ponds, etc., they remove the oxygen from the waters killing all waterlife and vegetation, they weed the waterways that provide the oxygen, food and habitat for all the waterlife.
The Government and their Departments want to continue to abuse and waste taxpayers money on violent killing. Aerial shooting is never humane.
Four years ago it cost NPWS on average $1074 to passively remove a wild horse from the National Park. This cost would be a lot higher today.
Taxpayers money to be spent on Brumbies rescue teams, training and rehoming the Brumbies as pets COST FREE to suitable caring responsible homes.
CRIMINAL OFFENCE, CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS, HEFTY FINES, IMPRISONMENT COMMITTED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR AGENCIES.
CARP HERPES VIRUS FUNDING AND RESEARCH STOPPED
Please find information below right through to the bottom of the page with links to click on, on the carp herpesvirus to be released into our waterways and the suffering and deaths it will cause.
It is highly recommended that a ban be placed on the funding for this research and the release of the Herpes virus into our waterways.
I am a stakeholder of Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) who are still pursuing the release of Herpesvirus 3 into our waterways with NCCP.
Response to NCCP below for you.
The thread of emails below in quotes will show you our correspondence that Carp have responded to followed by our response that you will read first.
It is highly recommended to stop the funding to NCCP and to divert the money to establish the medianimalcare equivalent to Medicare to end animal exploitation and to assist Pensioners and low waged income earners for all veterinary treatments and surgeries to be COST FREE.
“From: Lady Nora Preston <wildlife_carers_group@yahoo.com.au>
To: Carp <Carp@frdc.com.au
Sent: Friday, 4 May 2018, 14:47
Subject: Re: Carp contact form Lady Nora Preston
Good afternoon
Thank you for your response.
Matt Barwick is part of NCCP who contacted Dr Paula.
She is horrified that you would ignore not only her advice but the entire profession who have advised you not to contaminate Australian waters with Herpesvirus 3 that also causes black water and mutations.
Animal Welfare is also a big issue that I quoted from Dr Paula’s letter that shows the suffering it causes to the Carps and other species that are also effected.
The funding for this must immediately stop and put towards establishing medianimalcare equivalent to Medicare to end animal exploitation.
Sincerely
LADY NORA PRESTON – Independent Volunteer, began rehabilitating wildlife in the early 1980’s
Founding President – since 2004
Honorary Member – since 2004
Animal Welfare Inspector – since 2004
WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP – (WCG) founded in 2004
PO Box 3509
WESTON CREEK ACT 2611
Mobile: 0406 056 099
Email: wildlife_carers_group@yahoo.com.au
WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP is a VOLUNTARY INDEPENDENT NON PROFIT COMMUNITY BASED GROUP with no Government funding – Independent – adj. 1. Not governed by a foreign power; self-governing. 2. Free from the control of another or others; self-reliant.
Website: http://wcg.awardspace.com (we’ve been unable to update this website, as hard as a few of us have tried, updates on Facebook and WordPress, some on Twitter)
We are also on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/nora.preston.16 with photos included on the site, and become a friend.
You can now follow us and join us on Twitter http://twitter.com/wildlifecarersg/
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Support WCG. WCG is an independent, non profit, non government community based charity providing animal/wildlife care, rescue/rehabilitation and is also an animal/wildlife welfare group, providing protection for our wildlife/animals, run solely by volunteers, with no government funding, saving taxpayers money
Aims and Objectives: To promote the general welfare and continued survival of native fauna and flora as an essential element of the environment, and specifically to undertake the specialised care necessary for the rehabilitation of orphaned, sick and injured native birds and other animals, to promote public awareness of the need to conserve existing wildlife species, and an understanding of their particular habitat and feeding requirements.
Disclaimer: WCG and the author do not assume or accept any responsibility and shall not be liable for the accuracy or appropriate application of the information contained in this letter/email/blog/report/article.
Sent from my iPhone
On 4 May 2018, at 9:49 am, Carp <Carp@frdc.com.au> wrote:
Thank you Lady Preston for contacting the National Carp Control Plan (NCCP) team.
Although not directly sent to the NCCP, we are aware of the letter you refer to written by Dr Paula Reynolds, from Lincolnshire Fish Health Laboratories & Research UK. The NCCP is providing a detailed response to the points raised by Dr Reynolds and we will share this with her in the coming days. Once this has been finalised, I would be happy to provide a copy of the letter to you, as well as share our response on the NCCP website for the public to view.
The NCCP is currently embarking on an exhaustive process to explore the most effective methods to control carp and their impacts on the environment. One option we are exploring is the carp virus. The types of research projects underway by the NCCP include completion of trials testing the susceptibility of non-target species to the carp virus, development of strategies for cleaning up carp if the carp virus is released and studies to estimate carp biomass to help determine how well the virus may transmit through populations, and improve understanding of possible costs of removing them from Australian waterways.
It is only at the conclusion of this research will we be in a position to advise governments on the most appropriate methods to control carp.
We welcome your feedback and will continue to share the findings of each of our research projects with the public via our website www.carp.gov.au as they become available.
Kind Regards,
NCCP Team
National Carp Control Plan
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC)
Web: www.frdc.com.au
From: fnc@frdc.com.au <fnc@frdc.com.au>On Behalf Of wildlife_carers_group@yahoo.com.au
Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2018 4:34 AM
To: Carp <Carp@frdc.com.au>
Subject: Carp contact form Lady Nora Preston
Name: Lady Nora Preston
Email: wildlife_carers_group@yahoo.com.au
Location: ACT
Message: Good morning, I received a response from Josephine Laduzko, Secretary, Biosecurity Policy and Response that falsely states that the herpes virus does not kill or effect other species. I refer you to a letter from Lincolnshire Fish Health Laboratories and Research, UK that can be read at this link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1981126831961027&set=pcb.840428429484083&type=3&theater Matt Barwick contacted Dr Paula Reynolds from the UK who strongly warned Barwick against releasing this CyHV-3 virus in Australian waters because it can’t be controlled with many new strains emerging and that CyHV-3 does infect other species including humans. The CyHV-3 does not kill the Carp cleanly that causes the Carp to sink to the bottom and bleed from necrotic lesions in the gills while open sores erupt all over their bodies. “The fish bleed and rot as they die with their bodies being rapidly overtaken by colonies of secondary infections including Aeromonas, Clostridium botulinum (responsible for fatal botulism), E.coli to name a few. The degraded bodies often float after a few days spreading the impacts further downstream exposing the dead bodies to consumption by wildlife which are in turn impacted by these secondary infections.” “The secondary diseases are disfiguring and fatal if left untreated. These diseases are a very real threat to agricultural livestock, clean up crews and native wildlife in both aquatic and animals depending on using the waterways as their water source.” The link to my correspondence urging to withdraw the funding to NCCP: https://www.facebook.com/nora.preston.16/posts/10209507958529714?comment_id=10209934006780654¬if_id=1525240736200093¬if_t=feed_comment&ref=notif
It is highly recommended to withdraw this funding to NCCP and use it to establish a medianimalcare, equivalent to medicare instead. https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/submission-amended-draft-animal-welfare-and-management-strategy-2017-2022-closes-wednesday-24-may-2017/ “
CRIMINAL OFFENCE, CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS, HEFTY FINES, IMPRISONMENT COMMITTED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR AGENCIES.
NATIVE DINGOES UNLAWFUL CHANGE OF SCIENTIFIC NAME AND LOSING THEIR NATIVE TITLE
We are rather concerned on information that we have received that you are intending to remove the native status of the Dingoes.
The dingo is a type of dog native to Australia. The first British colonists to arrive established a settlement at Port Jackson in 1788 and recorded dingoes living there with indigenous Australians.
Scientific name: Canis lupus dingo
Mass: 13 – 20 kg (Adult)
Height: 52 – 60 cm (Adult, At Shoulder)
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
We strongly recommend to disallow these changes and to maintain their full protection as a native species placing them onto the critically endangered list before they are driven to extinction please. Please immediately stop all the killing and the poisoning.
Dingoes maintain a healthy well balanced ecosystem.
A criminal offence by the Government and their agencies leading to CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS, hefty fines, imprisonment.
ACT WILDLIFE UNNECESSARILY KILLING SHOT COCKATOOS.
I was called out for a shot cockatoo in the Belconnen area, even though the vets wanted to kill the cockatoo, the cockatoo was healthy and only needed surgery to remove the pellet, so I went to 2 different vets, and insisted that the 2nd vet perform surgery and remove the pellet. The cockatoo was successfully rehabilitated. There is No need to kill everything, have them treated and rehabilitate them, wildlife are not a liability, they are assets. If they are unreleasable then keep them or give them to someone who wants one or two. Call the Police to report the shooting of the wildlife.
A reminder of unnecessary killings of Cockatoos with pellets in them when they can be removed. https://www.facebook.com/ACTwildlife/photos/a.314206718718776/642128689259909/?type=3&theater
Unreleasable wildlife are necessary to keep to calm down the new incoming wildlife of the same species, for training in identification, etc.
DOGS WELFARE AND OTHER ANIMALS
An immediate Ban on temperament testing on all animals – please refer to https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/submission-amended-draft-animal-welfare-and-management-strategy-2017-2022-closes-wednesday-24-may-2017/.
INHUMANE, BULLYING, HARASSING, TORMENTING THE ANIMALS.
UNLAWFUL TO KILL RESCUED AND HANDED IN ANIMALS TO ANIMAL SHELTERS AND RESCUE GROUPS.
CRIMINAL OFFENCE, CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS, HEFTY FINES, IMPRISONMENT.
TO AVOID EXPLOITATION OF ANIMALS, ANY UNSOLD ANIMALS (THAT ARE TO BE SOLD AT A MINIMUM COST RANGING FROM $1-$20), ARE TO BE GIVEN AWAY FREE TO LOVING CARING SUITABLE RESPONSIBLE OWNERS AND HOMES.
DOG WALKING
To have full control over dogs while walking them in public, reputable dog training classes teach that only 1 dog, 1 person can keep a dog under full control by holding a tight lead at heel position, using both hands to hold the lead, keeping the dog on the left hand side of the dog walker.
It is impossible to be able to keep more than 1 dog under complete control with only 2 hands per person.
For the dogs animal welfare, for the protection of the dog walker’s dog, to prevent dog and people attacks, it is strongly recommended that only 1 (one) dog be allowed to be walked by one person at a time.
Ban the use of long leads and long retractable leads in public places, keeping the dog on a tight lead, close to your body at heel position.
VETS, RSPCA, POLICE – bullying, THEFT, unnecessary euthanasia – THIS ISN’T THE FIRST REPORT AGAINST THE RSPCA:
Below are our recorded events in 2017 in inverted commas to save a Golden Retriever from bullying by Lyneham Vets, the RSPCA that not even the Vet Board stopped.
“Unfortunately we found out on 8/12/17 that The RSPCA have unlawfully euthanased Bianca the young 12 year old Golden Retriever.
My full pedigree German Shepherd lived until he was 18 years old being treated for arthritis, and that was in the 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990 when arthritic treatment was not as advanced as it is today, not as advanced as it will be tomorrow and the future when arthritis will be cured. Bianca still had a good several years left in her.
The suffering and pain she may have suffered was due to the neglect committed by the Lyneham Vet Clinic and the RSPCA who failed to treat Bianca for her arthritis while in their care. If they would’ve immediately given Bianca back to her rightful owner, Bianca would’ve been treated for arthritis and would not have been suffering from pain or anything else.
If you would like to help animals you can Boycott Lyneham Vet Clinic phone no: 6241 3333and the ACT RSPCA. You can report the ACT RSPCA’s own animal abuse and the Lyneham Vet Clinic’s abuse on Bianca with my report below to the ACT RSPCA on animal cruelty ACT mobile number 0407 078 221 and Simon Yates, Animal Care Manager, on (02) 6287 8111. National RSPCA phone number (02) 62828300. You can email this report online by filling out their form to RSPCA Australia: https://www.rspca.org.au/contact-us
You can email the Australasian Veterinary Board Council with this report on the ACT RSPCA and the Lyneham Vet Clinic, include their phone number, at admin@avbc.asn.au. Their phone number is (03)96 207 844. The ACT Vet Board’s phone number is (02)6207 0012, their email address is tccs.vetboard@act.gov.aufor negligence, misconduct, animal cruelty, Animal Welfare, bullying, theft.
The ACT RSPCA is also guilty of promoting and performing animal Circus Acts at the RSPCA that we’ve all worked so hard to have banned in circuses at their 12 Barks of Xmas Carols this weekend. It is illegal to use animals for performing animal circus acts in the ACT. The animals are forced to perform unnatural acts that are not part of their natural behaviour, nor is it part of their natural behaviour to be dressed up in pathetic clothing and attire that is degrading and undignified to the animals. It is inhumane and illegal. Shut down the ACT RSPCA’s Animal performance circus acts.
Save Bianca a Golden Retriever.
On 5/12/17 we received a phone call from a very teary female who informed me that when she went into hospital she left her beloved 12 year old pet with a neighbour.
The neighbour took her dog to her Vet.
When she got out of hospital she went to her Vet to take her dog home.
The Vet refused to give her dog back and told her they were going to euthanase her.
This woman did not surrender her dog to the Vet, her dog was not seized.
I phoned the Vet and asked the Receptionist to give her dog back to the owner.
The Receptionist said that it was an animal welfare matter in the hands of the Police and the RSPCA and that she couldn’t discuss it with me.
The dog owner was treating her dog for arthritis under this same Lyneham Vet Clinic, so there was no neglect or animal welfare breaches by the owner.
The Vet Practice phoned the Police and told them not to let her into the waiting room so that she can’t get her own dog.
The Police acted unlawfully when they failed to instruct the Vet to return the dog to the owner so that she can take her dog to another Vet for a 2nd opinion which is her right.
I phoned the Animal Defenders Office and asked her to phone the Vet and to apply for a Court Injunction, a stay on euthanasia, and for her dog to be immediately returned home to her and to serve the Vet first thing in the morning.
On 6/12/17 I received several tearful phone calls from Bianca’s owner to save her dog.
I phoned the Vet Clinic again and told the Receptionist that the dog is hers and she has the right to take her dog home and to another Vet for a 2nd opinion.
The Receptionist told me she can pick her dog up. I phoned the owner and told her to get her dog.
When she went back the Vet had already called the RSPCA with both the Vet and the RSPCA now committing dog theft since the owner had now returned twice to take her own dog home.
The Vet did not own the dog to give her to the RSPCA, the dog was not surrendered to the Vet, the dog was not seized, the owner does not want the dog euthanased, she has been treating her dog for arthritis.
She has not done anything wrong and neither has the dog.
This is bullying committed by both the ACT RSPCA and the Lyneham Vet Clinic.
I phoned the RSPCA and informed them of all of the above and that this was not an animal welfare matter.
She has another Vet to take the dog too.
I asked the RSPCA not to euthanase the dog.
I then phoned the Police to inform them of the facts and that this is not an animal welfare matter and asked them to seize the stolen dog from the RSPCA and to return the dog to the owner.
Then I phoned the Police Minister’s Office and repeated the facts above.
I spoke personally with Greens Party Animal Welfare MLA ACT Legislative Assembly side bench Caroline LeCouteur to try to save Bianca.
You could try to save Bianca by phoning Canberra/ACT RSPCA, Simon Yates
Animal Care Manager, on (02) 6287 8111, and tell them to give Bianca back to her rightful owner.
On 7/12/17 I phoned the Police Minister Mick Gentleman’s office back and spoke with Frances again who informed me that she sent my complaint to Meegan Fitzharris’s office and that the Police did not write up a report on the incident that occurred on 5/12/17.
I phoned Meegan Fitzharris’s office and spoke with a female, who incorrectly claimed that the RSPCA is private and they can’t do anything about them. I corrected her and stated that the RSPCA is another Government agency funded and run by the Government and taxpayers money and that it is commercial. The taxpayers money needs to be withdrawn from the ACT RSPCA.
This is not a Merry Xmas for Bianca separated from her owner, and the stress she has been put through being ripped up from her home and her owner, stressed out then taken to a horrible RSPCA shelter from a horrible Vet Clinic’s cages.
The RSPCA and the North Lyneham Vet are guilty of committing animal cruelty and have now turned this into an animal welfare matter, however they have committed these crimes along with dog theft, bullying, and not the dog owner.
2017 RSPCA’s 12 Barks for Xmas that is promoting abuse of animals forcing them to perform circus acts at the RSPCA.
The RSPCA 12 Barks for Xmas was not a Merry Xmas for the animals.”
The RSPCA are guilty of exploiting animals, advertising and promoting for farmers farming animals for money when these animals have been tortured to death.
You are considering to fine people for not exercising their dogs.
Please be careful in what you are defining and declaring that is not exercising your dogs.
Dogs do get a lot of exercise on their own property by playing with them as they race around their own property without taking them out and putting them in danger in the streets and in unleashed areas.
The dogs may not want to go out and be exercised, they may be too sick or for any other numerous reasons.
It is important to be able to read their body language and not force them to do any exercise when they don’t want to, they could collapse, you would be causing them a lot of pain and cause their agonising death that would be a far more serious Animal Welfare breach.
Please refer to our Animal Welfare Draft and please declare the entire animal kingdom including all aquatic life and bird life to have equal rights to humans with hefty fines, criminal convictions and prison that includes the Government and any Tribunal and court who refuse to stop and convict the Government’s violence.
It isn’t safe walking dogs in the streets or in unleashed areas. As the video will show you, it isn’t safe for dogs on their own property either that is a more serious animal welfare concern that you need to worry about rather than wanting to fine people for not exercising dogs.
Dogs get far more exercise on their own properties where they are unleashed and can race around, jump around where they are much safer from dog attacks, compared to walking leashed dogs in the urban residential streets.
Newly introduced legislation to kill dangerous dogs abolished.
Dogs protecting their own properties when anyone trespasses are not dangerous & are not doing anything wrong when they defend their own property and owners and should not be killed.
The dogs aren’t dangerous, their owners are who deliberately set their dogs onto other people’s pets on their own properties, let them off their leads in public places that aren’t unleashed areas etc need to be dealt with.
Even in unleashed areas, dog walkers need to remain vigilant to immediately recall their dogs when wildlife, etc. are in the area to quickly replace the leash back onto the dog to keep the dog under tight control.
The dogs belonging to reoffending dog owners need to have their dogs removed and given to loving caring responsible suitable dog owner homes.
Dogs can be retrained, reoffending dog owners can’t, they simply don’t care.
I can assist in dog walking training and education etc.
Experienced Independents who aren’t Government funded need to be named as Stakeholders, placed on ethics committees, animal welfare committees etc to replace the current named Stakeholders, the RSPCA, Vets, DAS etc. and to be invited to all of the meetings for the welfare of all animals.
All of these Government Departments named to have authority need to be instructed by experienced Independents on Kangaroos etc who aren’t Government funded and who aren’t driven by money, greed, light rail, Real Estate, farmers, and hunters.
A reminder that this is the Animal Welfare Act, and not a people convenience Act.
Full term wildlife rehabilitation for sick, injured, orphaned Eastern Grey Kangaroos and all other native wildlife.
I can assist in these areas as well.
WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP FINAL AMENDED SUBMISSION DRAFT ANIMAL WELFARE AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 2017-2022
The mass killing and infertility program is unlawfully interfering with, and genetically altering the Kangaroos natural development, weakening the species and driving them to extinction.
In 2018 the Government violently and unnecessarily killed 3,253 Eastern Grey Kangaroos (EGK’s) continuing to commit mass killing based on scientific fraud as they introduce sheep, cattle, goats into the areas where they have killed EGK’s.
It is strongly recommended to immediately reinstate Eastern Grey Kangaroos onto the critically endangered list before they are driven to extinction, and to immediately stop all the killing and the infertility program, none of which that are for Environmental and conservation reasons, that are instead for real estate.
This is the Bush Capital, it is strongly recommended that we maintain the Bush Capital and all native flora and fauna.
It is strongly recommended that the ACT Mammal Emblem be changed to the Eastern Grey Kangaroos, to make up for all of the persecution, defamation and killings based on Scientific Fraud.
With the Animal Welfare Management Strategy recognising animals as being ‘sentient beings’, it is strongly recommended that the 2017-2022 Strategy is NOT in compliance with:
1. the violent Nature Conservation Act 2014, removing all ag gag type sections of the Act.
2. the violent Eastern Grey Kangaroos Draft Controlled Native Species Management Plan that is persecuting and driving the native Eastern Grey Kangaroos to extinction and endangering the public safety, shooting any time and day: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2017/03/19/eastern-grey-kangaroos-draft-controlled-native-species-management-plan-closes-24317/;
(1. Kangaroos do not overpopulate. Their populations grow until they are in equilibrium with their environment and then stabilise (1, 2.) – an Eastern Grey Kangaroo doe only raises its first joey to the pouch-emergent stage by 3.5 years of age, and finishes breeding at around 12 years of age, she is only likely to produce 8 young in her lifetime.
75% of joeys are likely to die, this leaves only 2 young to survive to adulthood. If the male female sex ratio is parity, only one surviving joey will be a doe, and on average the original female will only effectively replace herself once in her lifetime – parity means that if a doe first conceives at 3 years of age, and has its first young to independence by 4.5 years of age (this assumes success in rearing, and ignores the very high reported juvenile mortality rates), 50% of the time it takes a minimum of 4.5 years for a doe to replace itself with a female offspring. If the doe has a male joey, it will be another 12 months before there is another 50/50 chance she will replace herself with another female. Pouch young sex ratios from Hacker et al (2004), being roughly parity (which was also concluded by Coulson, Kirkpatrick, Poole and Pople / Grigg, however Dawson (1995) identifies that both Eastern and Western Grey Kangaroos seem to experience higher mortality in the males, with only 5% surviving to full maturity (c. 60kg) in the wild.
2. When food is scarce kangaroos stop breeding and move on to greener pastures (3).
3. As admitted in the KMP itself (p12), kangaroos are a keystone species. This means that, at natural densities (which vary with climatic and seasonal variations), they are critical to maintaining all the other native plants and animals which share their habitat. Killing kangaroos is not protecting threatened species. It is further endangering them.
4. No base-line studies have ever been conducted in the ACT to determine how many kangaroos are needed to maintain healthy populations of other native species.
The kangaroo slaughter is conducted at a time of year when, according to the KMP itself (p10-11), almost every mature female kangaroo has both a pouch young and a young at foot in her care. It is conducted under a code of practice which exists for the purpose of permitting acts of cruelty that would otherwise be prohibited by law (5).
References:
Arnold, GW, Grassia A, Steven DE & Weeldenburg JR 1991 Population ecology of western grey kangaroos in a remnant of wandoo woodland at Bakers Hill in southern Western Australia, in Wildlife Research 18 (5): 561-575
Coulson G, Alviano P, Ramp D, Way S 1999 The kangaroos of Yan Yean; history of a problem population in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 111(1): 121-130.
Burnie, David, Don E. Wilson, 2001, in Animal, pp. 99–101.
Peter B. Banks, Alan E. Newsome and Chris R. Dickman, 2000, Predation by red foxes limits recruitment in populations of eastern grey kangaroos, in Austral Ecology, 25(3) p283
ACT Animal Welfare Act, 1992, Section 20)
3. the violent Code of Practice, https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/autopsy-on-joey-tortured-to-death-by-authorised-tams-government-killing-4612/ TAMS is now TCCS.
4. the Ethics Committee that allows violence and suffering
5. the Kangaroo Management Plan
6. the ACT Kangaroo Management Plan (ACT Government 2010) and subsidiary policy instruments
7. Draft ACT Pest Animal Management Strategy 2011-2021:
8. Draft ACT Native Grasslands Conservation Strategy: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/wildlife-carers-group-submission-draft-act-native-grasslands-conservation-strategy-closes-12-may-2017/
9. the ACT Nature Conservation Strategy 2013-23 (ACT Government 2013a) and
10. the 2005 Lowland Grassland Conservation Strategy that are all based on fraudulent reports on the Eastern Grey Kangaroos, etc:
finding the Government and their agencies to be in breach of the Animal Welfare and Management Strategy by enforcing heavy fines, criminal convictions, prison sentence to any offenders, including the Government and their agencies.
FULL TERM WILDLIFE REHABILITATION FOR SICK, INJURED ORPHANED NATIVE EASTERN GREY KANGAROOS AND ALL OTHER NATIVE WILDLIFE.
1080 POISON TO BE BANNED
It is strongly recommended to ban the use of 1080 poison that causes a violent death and targets non targeted native wildlife, endangered species, domestic pets, etc. and children.
‘…There’s a lot of interference from non-targets taking baits, things like varanids [goannas], ravens, kangaroos, ants, and feral cats,” Dr Kreplins said….’. Click on this link for the full Report: http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-03-30/lizards-eating-1080-baits-meant-for-wa-wild-dogs/8398520
The cost of the killing is huge and has a negative impact on society and native wildlife.
The mass killing and infertility program is interfering with and genetically altering the Kangaroos preventing them to develop naturally, weakening the species and driving them to extinction.
Our proposed Kangaroo Park and Wildlife Sanctuary has a positive impact on society, is educational, and would be a multibillion dollar revenue raising program from the tourist industry that the ACT has been deprived of since 2008 by the Government and their agencies.
The Government and their agencies responsible for misconduct, violent killing, genetically altering EGK’s, committing crimes of Scientific Fraud heavily fined, criminally convicted, imprisonment.
It is strongly recommended that the Government and their agencies responsible for all of the above pay back all of the taxpayers money abused and spent on killing and the infertility program etc and use that money to establish our MEMORIAL KANGAROO PARK AND WILDLIFE SANCTUARY.
Wildlife Carers Group Map of Memorial Kangaroo Park and Wildlife Sanctuary
Click on this link to read the completed Wildlife Carers Group Submission DRAFT ANIMAL WELFARE AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGY: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/submission-amended-draft-animal-welfare-and-management-strategy-2017-2022-closes-wednesday-24-may-2017/
It is strongly recommended to publish all of the submissions.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN CONSERVATOR OF FLORA AND FAUNA AND WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP
We are still awaiting a response to my response to the Conservator of Flora and Fauna on the Eastern Grey Kangaroos Controlled Native Species Management Plan.
The unsigned correspondence from the Conservator of Flora and Fauna and my response are below all of this information and the ‘link to this Report’.
‘Earless Dragon scarcity previously coincided with kangaroo scarcity in ACT’ 17/5/17
Out of 41 Submissions that were received, 31 Submissions opposed the Eastern Grey Kangaroos Draft Controlled Native Species Management Plan, only 10 Submissions supported this Plan.
The majority opposed this Plan, therefore It is strongly recommended not to go ahead with this Plan and to immediately abolish it.
It is strongly recommended to immediately publish all of the submissions.
Unfortunately there are quite a few mistakes in this Canberra Times article and link below, probably more typo type mistakes leaving out the complete words etc.
Over $600,000 spent on contraception: https://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/spend-on-kangaroo-contraceptive-unlikely-to-end-culling-in-canberra-20170511-gw2kl7.html
More than 2,600 Kangaroos to be violently slaughtered in 2017 based on fraudulent flawed Acts, Plans. Strategies at The 12 sites to be closed for the conservation cull are Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, Goorooyarroo Nature Reserve, Mount Majura Nature Reserve and adjacent territory land, Kama Nature Reserve, Mount Painter Nature Reserve and adjacent territory land, The Pinnacle Nature Reserve and adjacent unleased land, Mount Mugga Mugga Nature Reserve, Isaacs Ridge Nature Reserves, …Callum Brae Nature Reserve, East Jerrabomberra Grasslands, West Jerrabomberra Nature Reserve, and Googong Foreshores.
These violent killings are not culls, and are not for Conservation purposes with our Kangaroos being driven to extinction, weakening the species genetically altering our Kangaroos committed by over killing and the infertility program. This is criminal.
Kangaroos maintain a healthy well balanced eco system.
To read the correspondence between the Conservator of Flora and Fauna and Wildlife Carers Group, click on this Link to read this full Report: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2017/05/15/responses-to-draft-eastern-grey-kangaroos-controlled-native-species-plan-submission-from-conservator-of-flora-and-fauna-and-my-response-shown-first-15517/
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