Yes, the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife have been aware of them for some
time, see
http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/SJON-56P2RG?open
The risks to Tasmania's fauna are obvious.
This is the sort of emergency governments do not handle well. It requires a
large amount of resources to be devoted to it now, not to be budgeted for in
the next financial year when it will be too late.
The article in The Australian quoted Professor Short as saying that the
problem is beyond Tasmania's resources.
I suggest the all birding-aus to write to their Commonwealth MPs and the
Minister for Environment urging immediate Commonwealth assistance for
Tasmania to tackle this problem.
Robert Read
Alice Springs
Peter Waanders wrote
Has anyone read the report in this weekend's Australian that some idiots
have released foxes on Tassie? This is going to be the beginning of the end
for many native species there.
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