WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP NEWS – KANGAROOS; HIT AND RUN TORTOISE 1/4/13
WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP NEWS – KANGAROOS; HIT AND RUN TORTOISE 1/4/13
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Wildlife Carers Group phone has been ringing off the hook as usual with possibly some calls being lost. If we haven’t returned your call you either forgot to leave your number, left the wrong number, we couldn’t decipher your message, or through congestion your call somehow got lost.
Please speak clearly and loudly into the microphone on your phone, tell us the reason why you are calling, leave your name and contact number, repeat your contact number twice. We don’t have time to return calls to callers who fail to give us the reason for their call. The call must be wildlife and animal welfare related.
KANGAROOS COUNT WITH ONGOING FALSE ALLEGATIONS
I have checked out the Friends of Mount Painter (FOMP) website where they blame the large number of Kangaroos for destruction of plants due to grazing.
An article in the Canberra Times (CT) on Friday 22 March 2013, ‘News’ Section p.7 with the subject heading ‘Majura roos in sights of cullers’ written by John Thistleton and Larissa Nicholson who interviewed Friends of Mount Majura (FOMM) also falsely accuse the Kangaroos of destroying seedlings that they have planted in fenced off areas and falsely state that there are a large number of roos.
Daniel Iglesias in the same article from TAMS tries to state that FOMM observation is science.
This type of research has already been undertaken, with one section being fenced off with no Kangaroos. The vegetation in this section died off because there were no Kangaroos in the fenced off section due to no grazing, stimulating the vegetation to regrow.
Another section was fenced off with Kangaroos. The vegetation in this section thrived due to the grazing of the Kangaroos, stimulating the vegetation regrowth.
This clearly shows that FOMM have their story back the front in the above CT article.
Kangaroos and the grazing of the Kangaroos is extremely important as the Kangaroos only skim off the highest, tough growth of plants, exposing tender shoots, stimulating vegetation regrowth.
While the Friends of Mount Painter have counted the Kangaroos in 2013 with volunteers for TAMS, their count is overly excessive as usual. They more than likely saw 4 Kangaroos and added 2 zeros to the end of the figure as it was reported to me that they counted 400 Kangaroos on Mount Painter. I haven’t been able to find anything on their website to confirm that FOMP counted 400 Kangaroos.
Animal Liberation has also been calling on volunteers to count the Kangaroos using a more scientific method and counted just 80 Eastern Grey Kangaroos on Mount Painter.
With the over killing going on of our Eastern Grey Kangaroos, not only by the government, but by property owners, and then vehicle strikes, natural predators that also includes humans who haven’t been issued with a permit, etc, our Eastern Grey Kangaroos (macropods) will be driven to extinction, and that will also have a devastating effect on our vegetation.
Killing is violent and unlawful. All macropods are native. All native wildlife are protected under the wildlife protection laws.
It is unlawful to kill native wildlife.
Macropods maintain a healthy well balanced eco system.
1. Please help us make a difference and sign this petition as individuals and circulate through facebook, twitter, your own website etc that will not only help stop violent Kangaroo killing but will also help to stop the development on the 2008 Kangaroo killing fields on the bnts site to encourage the government to turn the site and the surrounding areas into Wildlife Carers Group proposed Memorial Kangaroo Park and Wildlife Sanctuary: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-all-the-kangaroos.html
Wildlife Carers Group Map of Memorial Kangaroo Park and Wildlife Sanctuary
Can you also take a moment to sign and share these 2 petitions with others as well including your own websites etc? It’s really easy – all you need to do is forward this email and share both of the links on Facebook and Twitter: 2: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/chief-tams-minister-stop-the-unlawful-violent-killing-of-protected-native-kangaroos, and 3: http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/stop-the-unlawful-violent-killing-of-protected-native-kangaroos.
Eastern Grey Kangaroo Joey. Photo: NORA PRESTON
Please click on this link to read the President’s Report on legal action taken against the Conservator of Flora and Fauna to stop the Kangaroo killing in May 2012 under Animal Welfare and for the Environment/Conservation: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/wildlife-carers-group-visit-to-antarctica-melbourne-aquarium-competition-ongoing-animal-cruelty-by-rspcamore-211212/
HIT AND RUN LONG-NECKED TORTOISE
Wildlife Carers Group received a call on the pictured Long-necked Tortoise below. This tortoise was hit by a car with the driver then driving off and leaving it there to die. The finder wanted to use some sort of machinery on it which I promptly disallowed and asked him to drop it off to me. I also advised him that any treatment needed for the tortoise will be treated humanely by the vet. Tortoise shells are made up of bones, nerves, spinal chord etc, they can feel everything through the shell. Avoid scrubbing their shells using harsh brushes. Only use a very soft cloth with warm water, and very gently wipe the shell lightly in a circular motion.
We have received worse cases of injuries due to vehicle strikes.
Tortoises and other reptiles are on the move to go into hibernation. Please drive carefully and give way to our native wildlife. Our native wildlife are dependent on you to slow down and to watch out for them.
Photos: NORA PRESTON
Vet examining the tortoise. Underside (ventral surface) of the shell (known as the plastron) showing dirt and a minor plastron wound. The tortoise shell is a highly complicated shield for the ventral and dorsal parts of the tortoise, completely enclosing all the vital organs of the tortoise including the head that the tortoise can pull in. It is constructed of modified bony elements such as the ribs, parts of the pelvis and other bones found in most reptiles. The bone of the shell consists of both skeletal and the dermal bone, showing that the complete enclosure of the shell probably evolved by including dermal armor into the rib cage. On the plastron there are 2 gular scutes at the front, followed by a pair of pectorals, then abdominals, femorals and lastly anals.
The top of the tortoise shell (known as the carapace) shows signs of an abnormal growth and green algae on the shell
The vet cleaned up the tortoise using a soft cloth and water.
The tip of the sides of the shell is abnormally curled up.
The membrane can be seen under the neck of the tortoise where the tortoise was injected on both sides with antibiotics and a vitamin B complex.
The vet had to pry out the head of the tortoise to examine the tortoise further. This tortoise is anaemic and thin.
The vet then had to pry open the mouth of the tortoise using a toothpick.
The vet then injected the tortoise on one side of the membrane with Enrofloxacin.
On the other side of the membrane the tortoise was injected with a Vitamin B complex.
Tortoise is orally treated with Panacur using a syringe without a needle in it.
WISHING YOU A VERY SAFE AND HAPPY YEAR FOR 2013.
There can be no discrimination against our native wildlife, all native wildlife are precious to our Eco system, in assisting to maintain a healthy well balanced Eco system, and will be protected, and rehabilitated equally.
Wildlife Carers Group, the only local wildlife group with long term expertise and knowledge in our native wildlife, that will act on, and investigate animal cruelty/welfare/rights, and, as a community group, that also cares about our community, and the rights of our community groups.
Wildlife Carers Group, the only local wildlife group helping to keep our state and country out of deficit, with no government funding, run solely by volunteers, that is keeping you in a job.
Wildlife Carers Group, the only local wildlife group that trains work experience students.
Wildlife Carers Group is the only ACT body that enforces the wildlife protection laws.It is unlawful to kill or harm protected native wildlife.
NORA PRESTON (began rehabilitating wildlife in the early ’80′s.)
Founding President
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1. Please help us make a difference and sign this petition as individuals and circulate through facebook, twitter, your own website etc that will not only help stop violent Kangaroo killing but will also help to stop the development on the 2008 Kangaroo killing fields on the bnts site to encourage the government to turn the site and the surrounding areas into Wildlife Carers Group proposed Memorial Kangaroo Park and Wildlife Sanctuary: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-all-the-kangaroos.html
Can you also take a moment to sign and share these petitions with others as well including your own websites etc? It’s really easy – all you need to do is forward this email and share both of the links on Facebook and Twitter: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/chief-tams-minister-stop-the-unlawful-violent-killing-of-protected-native-kangaroos, and http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/stop-the-unlawful-violent-killing-of-protected-native-kangaroos.
To see Wildlife Carers Group report and review of the documentary’Kangaroo Mob’ please click on these links:
Published in theTasmanian Times please click on this link: http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/pr-article/wildlife-carers-group-attends-premiere-screening-/
To view the amendments and Draft ACT Pest Animal Management Strategy 2011-2021 please click or copy and paste this link into your browser: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/amendments-darting-currawongs-rspca-draft-act-pest-animal-management-strategy-2011-2021/
To see Wildlife Carers Group full 5-day report, of the training with the work experience student, Wildlife Carers Group Kangaroo Meat Testing, results: contaminated, etc Please click on this link https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/wildlife-carers-group-wcg-visit-to-callum-brae-nature-reserve-etc-full-5-day-work-experience-student-wes-placement-report-trained-by-wcg-founding-president-nora-preston-4-8-july-2011/?sn=l
To see Wildlife Carers Group Kangaroo Meat Testing, click on this link: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/wildlife-carers-group-kangaroo-meat-testing-%e2%80%93-5-day-work-experience-student-4-8-july-2011/?sn=l
‘KANGAROOS AND DISEASES’, https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/kangaroos-and-diseases-notes-for-5-day-wes-4-8-july-2011/?sn=l
This species maintains a healthy, well balanced eco system.
In this article, interviewed on 15/4/10, http://www.nowuc.com.au/2010/05/27/kangaroo-plan%E2%80%A6/comment-page-1/(this page may now be closed to leave space for UC new students interviews)
don fletcher from tams says that kangaroos are not the main problemand in fact ‘native grasses’ are not threatened with extinction, but other animals and plants are, and that “the biggest’contributor’ to the loss of the natural treeless grasslands of our region has been agriculture (by far)”.
This statement is admitting to the flawed, dishonest kangaroo management plan, and russell watkinson’s media release, on Friday 18/6/10, that blames the kangaroos for driving legless lizards, earless dragons, etc, and the deteriorating grasslands and woodlands to extinction, by eating all the grasses, when fletcher admits that the native grasses are not threatened by the kangaroos, but by human activity, including toxic sprays.
Please check out this link: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/roo-best-custodian-for-some-plants/1652005.aspx
that was in the Canberra times on 17/10/09, that completely refutes the allegations against the roos destroying grasslands, that was sent to maxine cooper, that were also ignored.
The report is by Julie Lindner, who has also been studying the grasslands and the roos for the past 20 years, which backs up what I’ve been saying all along.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/roo-best-custodian-for-some-plants/1652005.aspx, with a more recent article in the Chronicle in the’letters to the editor’section titled ‘culling controversy’ p.23, 14/6/11.
Please click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUZrKj6ClBg
‘KANGAROO CHILLER BOX INVESTIGATION’/’KANGAROOS ON TRACK TO EXTINCTION’,that contains the cruel bashing to death of roos that are shot, but not directly killed, hung up while still alive, and left suffering, trembling as they hang, tortured to death, and joeys bashed to death, possibly attempting to decapitate the joeys head on the back of the truck with several blows.
Please click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbn3c8EcNRk&feature=related
SEE the so called controlled government butchering, you will note that the kangaroos are still alive when hung up, suffering, AND BEING TORTURED TO DEATH, the male is laughing at the cruelty he has just inflicted on this kangaroo, a joey stomped to death, even the child stomps on it as he walks past following his father, orphaned joeys hopping around, left to starve to death, a joey bashed till its eyes popped out, but is still alive, suffering, a prolonged death, and the male admitting that these are protected species. Native protected animals called pests, the very same native animals that maintain a healthy well balanced eco system. The code of practice that the shooter refers to is inhumane, and unacceptable, as witnessed in this video footage. Kangaroos are not fit for human or dog consumption, heavily contaminated with various diseases/harmful bacterias, e.coli, salmonella, staphylococcus, streptococcus, toxoplasmosis, preserved illegally with sulphur dioxide that causes thiamine deficiency, (a white crystalline solid forming part of the vitamin B complex, C12H17CIN4OS; a vitamin (B1), required by the nervous system, absence of which causes beri-beri and other disorders),causing death, intake of pesticide spraying to control locusts, etc. Keep watching till it stops, keep an eye on the timer, next to the speaker symbol, length 10:59.
There are more links on youtube to show the facts on the extreme cruelty committed to our native protected macropods.
Possum abattoir
http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/HuonEnviroCentre/videos/possumdeath.wmv/view,
Possum Abattoir– Lenah Game Meats, Tasmania —EngageMedia
These animals are still alive and awake, when going through the abattoir’s chute processing system, dropped on top of one another, through a swinging door, to go through to the next phase, with several possums piled on top of one another, into the same boxes, when delivered to the abattoir, (possums are extremely territorial,) females with joeys, butchered, and bashed to death. Please Help stop these extreme acts of animal cruelty and export.
You can help stop these extreme acts of animal cruelty to these possums by adding the above link to the possum abattoir and lodging your submissions by 23/4/10, to wta@environment.gov.au
wildlife.enq@dpipwe.tas.gov.au
and click on link http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/trade-use/invitecomment/brushtail-possum.html
Submissions are now closed. This species maintains a healthy well balanced eco system.
To see the full report on Wildlife Carers Group possum rescue, possum boxes and investigating dog neglect, please click on this link: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/wildlife-carers-group-possum-rescue-and-investigating-dog-crueltyneglect-reported-to-us-19212/
Dingoes
Following Wildlife Carers Group Investigation and Report on the Fraser Island Dingoes, on 29/8/11, on 5/9/11, the Liberal National Party (LNP) has committed to ensuring the long term survival of the Fraser Island Dingoes, click this link to read the LNP’s commitments:http://www.lnp.org.au/policies/queenslands-precious-wildlife-the-fraser-island-dingo
Please click this link to view Wildlife Carers Group follow up on Fraser Island Dingoes Driven to Extinction Report: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/fraser-island-dingoes-driven-to-extinction/?sn=l
https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/wildlife-carers-group-investigation-and-report-on-the-fraser-island-dingoes-qld-liberal-national-party-takes-action-to-protect-fraser-island-dingoes/?sn=l
Terminating the rangers from their jobs, who are responsible for the inhumane treatment of dingoes on Fraser Island , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSSaknF6Wnw&feature=youtu.be
who are starving them to death, mismanaging them, mistreating them, will prevent driving these spectacular native wildlife species to extinction, and help end acts of animal cruelty. Changing the Qld government legislation and constitution, to humanely conserve this species, and their habitat. Erecting GIVE WAY to DINGOES/WILDLIFE Signs. We can see their marine life up and down the Qld coast, however, the only unique sighting that Fraser Island can boast about, and can offer to the tourists, is the pure breed native Dingoes, once the last 90 odd Dingoes, population estimation as of 28-29 August 2011, (since the mismanaged Fraser Island fire by the Qld government, this Dingo population has more than likely dropped dramatically), that are left on the Island are driven to extinction, through arrogance, mismanagement and mistreatment, Fraser Island will have nothing left to offer to the huge tourist trade it currently holds, which will end Fraser Island tourism. This species maintains a healthy well balanced ecosystem.
To read Wildlife Carers Group report on WILDLIFE CARERS GROUP VISIT TO TASMANIA in the Tasmanian Times, please click on this link, http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/pr-article/wildlife-carers-group-visit-to-tasmania/
Wildlife Carers Group report on our visit to Tasmania can be seen on this link:
https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2012/01/02/wildlife-carers-group-visit-to-tasmania-wildlife-being-driven-to-extinction-wildlife-care-2112/
To read Wildlife Carers Group report on Tortoise cruelty and removing the fish hook, and in the Tasmanian Times please click on this link or copy and paste into your browser:
Wildlife Carers Group report on Tortoise cruelty was published in the Tasmanian Times, to read it please click on this link: http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php?/pr-article/cruelty-to-a-long-necked-tortoise/
For further information on snakes, identification, tips, first aid please click on this link: https://wildlifecarersgroup.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/snakes-information-identification-tips-first-aid-notes-for-wes-4-8-july-2011/
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