Bill,
The easiest way to find out, is to ring the company. Say you have a possum
problem and ask if they could help.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 04/09/2012, at 10:53 AM, Bill Stent <> wrote:
> No, I didn't get the number plate, sadly. I do know the company though.
>
> I can't tell whether this is the company doing it as part of their
> normal line of business (making this a repeat offence), or the woman
> who happened to be driving the van having a possum in her own roof,
> making it a one-off thing.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Peter Shute <> wrote:
>> Is it likely that a landscaping company would see possum removal as one of
>> their functions? If so then this is likely to have been one of many
>> releases, and therefore should be of interest to the appropriate authorities.
>>
>> I would start by contacting the local ranger, and I'd would hope a phone
>> call from them might have the company rethinking their strategy even if it
>> can't be enforced. I wonder if they could force them to reveal who the
>> client was.
>>
>> Did you get the number plate, Bill?
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [birding-aus-
>>> On Behalf Of Carl Clifford
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:01 AM
>>> To: Bill Stent
>>> Cc: <>
>>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Possum trapping and releasing
>>>
>>> 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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