Interesting that our state wild bird control policies are being noticed
further afield than Murray Bridge or Albury...
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:35:07 +1000 (EST)
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Subject: Victoria Enviromental Politics
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Hello from California,
I just signed on to this list as a dedicated volunteer of Earthwatch
Institute. I have enjoyed reading your messages.
I subscribe to a birding list in the US so I thought they might be
interested in reading some Oz sightings.
Yowza! I got much more than I bargained for. A dedicated duck runs the list.
Ms Duck is concerned about Oz happenings (who would given the message below)
and also disdains signing on to your list.
Please respond the list and MamaDuck1.
Cheers.
Claire Nelson
Australia, March 25, 1999: Victoria's Environment Minister, Mrs. Marie
Tehan, has decided to allow farmers to poison native galahs, cockatoos and
corellas. The decision goes against advice from the Parliament's Environment
Committee, against the advice of the National Consultative Committee on
Animal Welfare, and was not even put to the Victorian Animal Welfare Advisory
Committee.
The Victorian Parliament's Environment and Natural Resources Committee
(ENRC), after a 12-month study of problems caused by long-billed corellas,
sulphur-crested cockatoos and galahs, clearly opposed poisoning of birds.
ENRC branded poisoning attempts elsewhere and with other species as
ineffective, non-selective and not cost-effective. There is currently no
known bird poison that will kill birds humanely. Further, there is no known
legal poison that can be used for birds in Victoria.
These flocks of birds are nomadic and even killing many thousands cannot
guarantee other birds will not visit the same property. In past large-scale
mice poisonings, non-target species such as birds of prey, brolgas, and
magpies, were affected by the non-selective poison. In 1996 the National
Registration Authority banned the use of strychnine during mice plagues
because "of the concerns of overseas trading partners" regarding possible
residues in grain crops.
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