I hope you referred all injured and orphaned wildlife enquiries to the
ranger in question from then on. And also advised those who contacted
you to go to the media if refused assistance.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 04/11/2009, at 5:06 AM, Denise Goodfellow wrote:
Back in the late 1980s a Parks and Wildlife Ranger refused to grant
Hilary
Thompson and me a permit to care for injured and orphaned wildlife.
At the
time there were very few carers and so we were often asked to take
injured
or orphaned animals.
We wanted a permit because half a cozen people we knew who had been told
they didn't need one, had later had their animals seized. Such people
included our school headmaster, who for years had been caring for native
birds, and was quite an authority.
The ranger refused on the grounds that we might, for instance, go out
and
find a nest of Pheasant Coucal chicks, report them as orphaned, "break
their
legs" (heavens knows why he added this), then when the legs had healed,
smuggle them overseas.
I decided it was not in our best interests to continue taking in
wildlife.
We do collect roadkills, having been asked to by staff at the NT
Museum, but
that's all.
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
PO Box 3460 NT 0832, AUSTRALIA
Ph. 61 08 89 328306
Mobile: 04 386 50 835
Birdwatching and Indigenous tourism consultant
PhD Candidate
http://www.denisegoodfellow.com.au
http://www.earthfoot.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baby-dreaming
http://www.ausbird.com
http://birderstravel.com
http://www.theloveofood.com (Rowan Goodfellow Thompson)
on 3/11/09 5:36 PM, Tim Jones at wrote:
Peter,
What do the 'fanatical Twitchers' do? I reckon this is mostly just
sensationalised hearsay. I see so much prattle about the terrible
harm they
do, but I have yet to see a properly substantiated report of
something which
has had any serious effect on wildlife and I've been on many, many
'fanatical
twitches' in my time.
There are a few people who go a bit too far in their pursuit, but most
'fanatical twitchers' are also fanatical conservationists and also
want future
generations to share their joy of seeing wonderful places and
wonderful
wildlife.
I just wish people would get things in proportion. This kind of
statement tars
us all with the same brush and just gets us all a bad name.
NB I'm not arguing about the need to be judicious with information.
Cheers
Tim
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To: ;
Subject: Re: [SPAM] [Birding-Aus] Australian Painted Snipe in Dubbo
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:28:29 +1100
CC: ;
Hi Peter, my main concern was the Painted Snipe, and yes I do
believe that
there are people who would take a Painted Snipe for their
collection. Its no
different than collecting feathers a subject that as been discussed
recently
on this forum. Collecting feathers appears to be a harmless pastime
on the
surface but you can imagine someone who as all the feathers of all
the
parrot species except for the Night Parrot. I could easily see such
a person
trying to find out where to find one and going out and shooting it
to get
the feather.You only have to see what some of the fanatical
Twitchers get up
to at times to understand the need to be alert to whom you give
information
to. Thankfully it is only a small minority that are involved in such
behaviour.
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