Bill,
Not much you can do. You could report it to the relevant authority, and they
may decide to run with it. I don't think a Magistrate would give it much court
time though, as they would be unlikely to regard releasing a possum into the
bush much more harmful than releasing it in a back yard. At least the apparent
possum was apparently released and not taken cage swimming.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 04/09/2012, at 5:52 AM, Bill Stent <> wrote:
> I had an interesting - if very short - conversation on the bike ride home
> last night.
>
> I was coming up the path from the Fairfield pipe bridge over the Yarra
> (Melbourne), which passes through a bit of bush. Ahead of me I saw a woman
> emerge from the bush, carrying a wire crate. I caught her just as she was
> loading the empty possum trap into a van, with with the name of a landscape
> design and construction company written in large letters on the side. I
> asked her "was that a possum you just released?" She paused for a moment,
> looked me up and down and said, "maybe".
>
> Without anything else I could do, I said "good answer" and rode off.
>
> According to the Department of Sustainability and Environment, here in
> Victoria, "Possums may be trapped, but only to remove them from the roof.
> They must be released on the same property within 50 metres of the capture
> site. Licensed wildlife controllers are also authorised to trap possums, (see
> Yellow Pages under pest control) but they will not relocate them to another
> site."
>
> I have a possum trap and have caught possums inside my house, and have
> released them at my front door. Where we were, there are no houses within at
> least 400 metres.
>
> What can be done about this? I know that what I saw cannot be taken as
> evidence in anything, it's simply my word against hers.
>
> I wrote down the name of the company as she drove off.
>
> Bill
>
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