From: "Alan Morris" <>
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Subject: [BIRDING-AUS] Collecting Birds
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:33:39 +1000
If only all the angst generated by this event could be used to object to
the Victorian & South Australian Governments against the illegal and legal
killing of birds in vineyards, particularly in set nets for grape
protection, where many birds like Grey-crowned Babblers and flycatchers
get caught and die, and for "crop protection" in those States, and in NSW
where hunters kill 70,000 waterbirds per year as part of ricecrop
protection, not to mention Queensland where the clearing of land continues
which has an incredible negative effect on many woodland species. Puts
that poor one little Yellow Chat into a bit of perspective.
Hello Alan
I suspect the perspective you are talking about is society's or your own and
not the little bird's. If we can agree that a little wrong and a big wrong
still don't add up to a right, then the perspective argument is really not
about the inherent ethics of the situation but rather a utilitarian argument
about resourcing. Perhaps the angst you mention is more about the birding
world taking a view that "charity begins at home"? How can we get the rest
of society behind the large conservation issues if we pay such light regard
to the life of birds? And anyway, have you ever thought that "that poor one
little Yellow Chat" may be just the surface of a wider collecting problem?
Instead of dismissing it as some sort of side-issue, I say we should address
it. Along with all the other issues you mentioned. Cheers
Andrew
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