Thanks Goeff Jones for the link to the AWC. Their work sounds remarkably good.
The most relevant of their activities to Night Parrot conservation is
the part where they have fenced off a large areas which are now cat and fox
free, an obvious short term solution to preserving John Young’s Night Parrot
population. New Zealand has a strong history of fencing off threatened
populations of wildlife. The Western Australian CALM (now DEC) did at
one time fence off several peninsulas on the WA coast, as I recall with an
amazing bounceback of local native species after eliminating cats and foxes.
The technology and expertise is patently available to similarly save the Night
Parrot, how can the political will and money be generated? (State elections
are coming up). Maybe the AWC could buy the relevant property and do their
magic.
(One query I have re AWC figures is their claim that 75 million native
animals are killed every night by feral cats, presumably estimated by
extrapolation from a tiny area. Conservation bodies do themselves a great
disservice by crying wolf and otherwise exaggerating. That 75 million every
night sounds very implausible, how, in specific detail, do they justify it?)
Cheers
Michael
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