A different warning about Kellys [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["martin butterfield" <>]

There are several issues here. 

 

One is that a dead fox (or any other large dead vertebrate) close to a heavily used pedestrian/cycle path is a public health hazard. 

 

Second is that if they had a ranger visit the area more frequently I am sure it would have been removed (but staff salaries are the budget line that gets killed off first).  Chuck it in the bush by all means: Ibut see point .

Third is that it would be useful to know, as Benj says, if the fox poisoning is working,

 

From the number of rabbits I saw around the swamp yesterday I suspect an argument could be mounted that foxes would do a good job in controlling another pest: some reports suggest that the "calicivirus con carrot" is not very effective in the Canberra cliimate.

 

Martin
 

On 5/10/07, Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS <> wrote:

there may be some use in identifying whether poisoning is working. Monitoring and evaluation.

Otherwise I agree, chuck it in the bush.

Benj

 

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From: Philip Veerman [mailto:m("pcug.org.au","pveerman");" target="_blank">]
Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2007 5:37 PM
To: martin butterfield; Cog line
Subject: [canberrabirds] A different warning about Kellys

 

Surely with all the calls on the ACT government budget and the limited funds that the conservation bureaucracy has available to it, there are better things for them to do with their resources, than worry about a dead fox, just because it is a little smelly (even it is as reported a healthy dead fox). Kangaroos are left dead beside the road for extended periods and they are smelly too. Foxes die, just like everyone else. Just a pity they don't die soon enough. Beyond that, who cares?

 

Philip